pass my exams

Final grades are posted:
Nursing 412 – 92%
PharmTox 206 – 75%
Thanat 230 – 78%

I am SO happy to mark this goal as done, for last term anyway :o)

my pharmacology grade is in!! I passed!! Yippee! I passed!!

Our bone-head prof won’t give a straight answer as to our final exam grades, and I ain’t no arithmetician so I’m unable to figure it out on my own, but I got an overall 75% in the class.

Since I haven’t taken a math class since I was about 17 years old, I need help to figure out what I scored on the final, k?

midterm – I scored 31% out of a possible 45%
quizzes – I scored 8.8% out of a possible 10%
final exam – worth remaining 45% of final grade

So, smarties of 43T-land, how many of the 90 questions on the final exam did I answer correctly?

_{not that it really matters, of course, but I studied so hard for that exam; I’m curious to know!}

Well, not all, but one of my three exams has been marked and the grade posted.

Nursing leadership – 30.1/35 = 86%

I don’t know how I scored that extra 0.1 (very strange) but I’ll take it gladly!

Exam #3 is now over.

Turned out that yesterday, shortly after I posted about my exam being postponed, the prof e-mailed to say it was officially canceled and would be re-scheduled for sometime Thurs or Fri.

As any normal student would do, I slapped my book shut and went out to play.

However, unbeknownst to me a further e-mail came at 11:07 a.m. indicating that they managed to upload the exam after all, and we could in fact go ahead and write. Agggh! I didn’t find that second e-mail until well after my second beer, so I couldn’t bring myself to log in then.

Instead, since the prof opened the exam up until 11:30 p.m. TONIGHT because she felt badly for all the timing troubles, I wrote it this morning.

Took about an hour, and I feel quite comfortable with how I did.

So, it’s over. I won’t mark this goal complete until I receive confirmation of my passes, but as far as I’m concerned, ceci est fini.

Seems our professor and the ITS folks at WebCT and Western can’t get our exam uploaded.

Fiddle sticks!!

She says if it isn’t up by noon, we’re rescheduling for another date. Can’t decide if I’m happy or sad about that, but I honestly don’t think it’s going to matter. Somebody’ll save the day and get it uploaded for us. Til then, I really ought to be reviewing and not posting nonsense on 43T!!

::wanders off giving self quiet but stern talking to::

Yep, I’m down to one itty-bitty li’l exam now – woo hoo!

My palliative care exam this aft went well. I was able to answer 25 short answer questions without too much trouble, although I was left with a few holes. And even though I can’t see my answer being worth all of the 25 possible marks, I answered the one essay question as best I could too. Enough to pass, anyway.

I definitely could have – okay, and should have – been better prepared for it, but I did it, it’s over, I’m happy and I’m heading out for a celebratory beer at the ball park. _{(No worries, there Professor PB, I’ll be home early to get a good night’s sleep before my last exam tomorrow. I promise ;o)}

Wrote the pharmacology exam on Tuesday night. I feel confident that I passed it, although by how much I have no idea. I felt like I knew about 65-70% of the answers for sure, and another 10-20% I was pretty sure, but on the remaining 10-20% I was guessing. I’d love to know how I did but I doubt we’ll see the marks for at least a week or two.

Tomorrow I write the palliative care exam. Last night I could have studied from about 3 p.m. on, but I didn’t. We had a little party instead. I guess I needed to blow off some steam, and truly, I feel pretty studied out. But I’m going to have to suck it up for today and hit the books. I don’t anticipate a tough exam in this course, but still, I couldn’t likely pass it with what I currently know/understand/remember. NOTE TO SELF: don’t be a dickhead – study tonight!!!

Saturday is the nursing leadership exam. Thankfully it’s open book and online so I can write it at home, whenever I like between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m.

I think it’ll be closer to 9 p.m. for me, as I’ll have to study all day :o\

_{Sigh. Almost done.}

Another productive day today, although I noticed a definite brain fatigue – I was much more easily distracted today, and far less absorptive.

It has taken me these two days to get through the neuropharmacology module (as pictured). It’s a whopper :o)

Actually, I had hoped to get through it in one day, so I’m rather disappointed. Now I just hope expect the next two days’ efforts to bring everything together to gel.

it’s too funny and interesting to not share with my peeps:

“Rarely, patients taking clomipramine experience yawngasm. Experience what? A spontaneous orgasm while yawning. Honest. This unusual side effect, which affects both males and females, may be considered adverse or beneficial, depending on one’s view of such things. In at least one documented case, yawngasms strongly influenced adherence [to treatment], as evidenced by the patient asking how long she would be “allowed” to continue treatment. Although data are scarce, one might guess that the occasional yawngasm would help relieve depression.”

So… show of hands – who all is going to the doctor Monday to complain of depression & request clomipramine??? hehe

_{my bloody luck that the ONE THING I read today that I’m definitely not going to forget won’t be on the exam!!}

I made this giant poster today, covering all of module 16 – antibacterial therapy. I had at least three anxiety attacks thinking of how goddam much there is to remember – and this is only ONE OF 17 MODULES!!!

Anywho…

I learned some things, I think, and can move on to forgetting it all tomorrow.

Sigh.