The Little Miss Who Took On Too Much (Yuan)

Tumbleweed…

*Nervous laughter* Uh, sorry for the disappearance from this blog for so long. Studying med has been keeping me slightly sleep-deprived and without a social life. But alas, all that is behind us so hopefully, I’ll be back to stay…

Fourth semester (of twelve) has been… hectic to say the best. I know, I know, every semester, I say we hit the ground running but this semester just gave a new definition to the word hectic. I was desperately looking forward to having an awesome time studying neuro and got a rude awakening to the amount of work that’s entailed. Welcome, my best friend, Kandel’s “Principles of Neural Science,” which is what has got to be the most wordiest longest textbook written by a Nobel Prize Winner who is obviously famous for his long windy explanations. I almost feel sorry for the lecturers who have to manually dump this truckload of information down our brains (which should, by the end of this lecture, make numerous new synapses due to your increased learning).

Study aside, I am also taking part as a student host of the campus. Basically, I get to lead secondary students around and give them an idea of what it’s like to study at Melbourne University. It’s fun although at times, thanks to the unpredictable Melbourne weather, we get caught out in the rain. So there I am, trying to get twelve shivering wet students excited about coming to Melbourne Uni and pointing out all the landmarks while all they want to do is get inside a building ASAP. But it’s definitely fun!

Open Day, I assisted in the Anatomy Museum for a couple of hours. It was fun talking to students who were interested in studying medicine. But the majority of people are actually current doctors dragging their kids to the displays, which kind of makes me redundant 😀

Tomorrow and the next day, I volunteered to tutor/lecture for SWOT (Student Welfare Outreach Team). Which means, instead of catching up on my work as I should be doing, I’m cramming all the High School Maths that have leaked out of my brain. dy/dx anyone???

Here’s a quick summary of my life at the moment. Cramming for tutoring tomorrow – six hours. Started a new blog (http://escapinginfinity.blogspot.com/) which means I’ve just created yet another reason to procrastinate on the Internet – two hours. Watching the Apprentice Australia – one hour (I’m taking that one hour out of my sleep). Deciding to go back and redo all my notes *palms forehead for being so silly at such a late stage of the term* – two hours… and that’s just for today.

Watching my sleeping time dribble away to almost nothing – priceless…