Whew!

This week was the tail end of a round of exams - four in as many weeks. A nice exam-free two weeks, and then back into it again. Sure an exam a week doesn't sound so bad. Me and the other ~180 kids will vouch otherwise. I thought they went reasonably well - three of them I did above average on and one I did below average. Histology was the one I was most worried about, since I'd heard horror stories from last year's class. Something like the first exam's average being only a few point above passing. Buut, I found out Friday that I did pretty well - above average, and even a few points away from honoring the exam. So, I'm a pretty happy camper.

The exams themselves are rough just because of the amount of material covered in each. For this last histology exam, my group started studying Thursday or Friday for a Wednesday exam. Seems like a lot of studying, mostly because it is. Most of us felt okay at best going into the exam. There's just way too much material and too many styles of questions: looking at slides, evaluating micrographs, and regular lecture-based questions.

The thing that sucks about exam weeks is that you've gotta try and somewhat keep up with classes. Keyword: try. It's usually ended up that as an exam gets closer, other classes start taking a back seat. So in general, it's not if you're falling behind - it's a matter of how badly. Even on nonexam weeks, I'm usually behind. After exams, even more so. I've got about two weeks of anatomy, physio, and biochem to catch up on about now. So even without an exam coming up, there'll be weekend studying as if there was one. Bleh.

But, in getting back to the title of the post - it feels good to not have any exams this week. Feels even better knowing that I rocked that last histo exam. The combination of the two had me enjoy Wrigleyville that much more last night :D