As 2007 draws to a close...

I thought it was about time for an update, considering I haven't been here since JULY!!! What a slack arse :D

So so much has happened since then... but probably the most important and exciting and wonderful thing that has happened is that on Wednesday the 12th of December, exactly one week ago today, I found out that I was indeed accepted into Pharmacy at QUT!! Which means in 5 years time, I will be a Pharmacist, fully qualified and bursting at the seams to diagnose rashes, stick labels on bottles and talk to mothers about what they can and can't do during pregnancy/breastfeeding (just to name a few day to day tasks)!!!

This is such a massive massive achievement for me and I am SO proud of myself!! When I was at school I got an OP of 12.... Which is very very average. The OP cut off for the Bachelor of Pharmacy is a 2... Which means to even THINK about getting in I had to work my arse off and go from casual laid back chick to ultra nerd :D and I did it... while still maintaining my casual laid back outlook on life :D - there was some stress, but not near what I thought I would go through!!! And any stress I did endure was DEFIANTLY worth it for the prize I have at the end :D

So lets go back a few weeks to subjects - In second semester this year I choose Human Physiology, Human Anatomy, Cell and Molecular Biology and Chemistry Two. My reasoning for picking anatomy and physiology was in order to 'get off easily' because I did a very similar subject last semester. This was all above board and the idea paid off :)

Chemistry again was a horrible subject for me... though I found I could keep up better with it this semester as apposed to semester one... I do enjoy chemistry I just need more time to study it then the average person :) but that's ok!! Ive worked that out now and it is easy fixed!!

Ok so skipping to exams!!! I was not overly confident to be honest.... I felt there was still so much I could know that I didn't really think that I did and blah blah - even though I studied my arse off!! - My first exam was for Anatomy, which was good because I was probably the most confident about that so I got in and got it out of the way so I could focus on the next exam, which was Chemistry and which was the very next day after Anatomy...

I was shitting myself for my Chemistry exam... I was not confident at all.... It was divided into three sections, organic chem, physical chem and inorganic chem... Organic chem took the most part of the exam and I think I got most of those ones ok... but the other two, it was like a big arse guessing game!! So I walked away feeling as though I probably passed but no better then that... Which was fine, cause a pass is all that I wanted for Chem.

THEN there was Biology.. which was the day AFTER Chem.... which meant I had THREE EXAMS IN THREE DAYS and that was horrible!! Anyway, biology went really well... I felt really good about that one!! So that was nice :)

The fourth and final exam was three days after the other ones, THANK GOODNESS!! And it was for Physiology. Up until this point I hadn't done any study for physiology for the end of the semester, I assumed it would be fine having three full days just for physiology. On the first day, I was a little bit blah about the whole thing... having just done three exams in a row I didn't feel much like studying, so I just did a little bit and thought I would spend the weekend studying like a mad man... Only thing is, I woke up on Saturday morning and I couldn't walk straight, I was sooo dizzy and I felt sooo sick.... It was really horrible, I kept trying to sleep it off but I couldn't, I tried to study through it but the looking up and down just made it worse and so Saturday was a write off as well. Fortunately I was fine on Sunday and just plodded along working away at it as much as I could... And it's fair to say that went Monday came I wasn't feeling very confident :S there was so much content and I'd really only put in about 1.5 days worth of effort. BUT luckily, I got into the exam room, looked at the paper and the answers just flew out :D it was awesome!!! And the feeling I got at 11:30 when it was pens down is one of the best feelings I have had in a long long time :D


Then after exams came the excruciatingly long wait for the results to be released!!!!! That wait is horrible! Anyway, the day FINALLY came and I checked my results and I nearly died!!!

Human Anatomy - 7
Human Physiology - 7
Cell and Molec Bio - 7
Chem Two - 5

GPA = 6.125

I couldn't have asked for anything more and I was sooooooooooooo insanely over the moon!!!! It was a fantastic feeling to know that all my hard work paid off and I was one step closer to achieving the biggest goal that I have ever set myself!!!!

Now I had to wait until the 16th Jan to find out whether or not I got into Pharmacy - HOWEVER, as mentioned earlier... I found out last week - which was a big shock as I was not expecting even a hint of acceptance until January... So my year has been capped off amazingly well and I am looking to 2008 with much anticipation :D

Feb 25, 2008 - my first day of Pharmacy :)