Time (Yuan)

This year has gone by surprisingly fast. Only 4 more weeks, swotvac, exam block and we’re done. Amazing…

The med student’s much deserved 1 week off had come and gone (the other lucky students get 2, which is totally not fair). I spent it volunteering for SWOT (Student Welfare Outreach Team) and tutored VCE students from under-represented high schools around Melbourne. Boy, was it scary the night before trying to cram in the stuff that my brain had spent 1 year deleting. In my own defense, I have to say I don’t exactly need to know differential calculus for my studies in medicine. Ignoring the fact that I had to wake up at 6 to get to school at 8, I had an overall good time. And yes, like Nicola said, there was the free food and t-shirt.

SWOT aside, I spent some time catching up on uni work. So I’ve now caught up. Unfortunately, I don’t think I know the contents to the level required. Technically, I’m up-to-date but not really. I’m still a bit vague about the finer details. Hopefully, that’ll change in these 4 weeks. So now, I’m trying to learn the stuff in a bit more detail by cramming books into my head. If only studying works by diffusion, then all I need to do is use my textbooks as pillows…

Four more weeks until the US election and I’ve watched with barely contained gleeful laughter whenever Sarah Palin makes a mistake. The VP debate was interesting but at the same time, predictable. Joe Biden was clearly the winner just as Sarah Palin was clearly reading off a script. At the present stage, I’m trying to remain optimistic and hopeful that US people have brains and will vote for the right candidate. If they don’t…. well, let’s not even think about it.

Tomorrow, I’m getting my HP2 assignment back and on Wednesday, I’ve got an OSCE exam, which is basically performing an abdominal exam on a patient. We get marked on it but it’s only a threshold exam which means we need to pass it in order to finish the course but it doesn’t actually count to our final mark. I’ve already practised it a couple of times on my mom, who interestingly went to the GP one day and when the GP began doing the abdominal exam on her, she said don’t bother because her daughter has been doing it at home all the time. lol, gotta your parents ^_^. Hopefully everything goes according to plan and I should have nothing to worry about. *fingers crossed*

Till next time!

Yuan