The Last Battle...

And so I officially finished my exams TODAY!! Woohoo!!! Let's hear the cheer! YEAH YEAH YEAH! The first thing I did was of course sort out semester two notes and did a lot, believe me, a lot of trashing. Out went the physics papers! Never in my life again! Yes! Filed my biochem and medsci notes nicely..you never know, might want to use it some day. Vacumned the floor, did more tidying, and was singing all the way! Yes, life is good! lalalalalalalala!!!!

English today was all right. Nothing that you can study for, unlike all the science papers that we did so far. Wrote about 12 pages on promiscuity, mate selection and gender inequalities. Hopefully my sexy writing on Darwin and Angier was a good argument. I'd be glad with a B+ for English and will be stoked to get an A! Then was off to Clock Tower to apply for my exam scripts be sent back to me. Yes, I am a freak. A paranoid one too. I love to do post mortems even after the results have come out. Nah, just to put it simply, I like to know how I've done. Checked my mail too and to my surprise, received a mail from Colin Quilter (not specially for me of course..to everyone.) I read it with fixed feelings. Below is a snippit:

"A HARD EXAM
Feedback is that the exam was hard, and marks for the MCQ section (already in our hands) confirm that. They counterbalance the midsemester test, where marks were generous. When the examiners meet they will make a careful analysis of the overall difficulty of the test and exam. If they think that overall it was a little too difficult, then they will add marks to every student to compensate. That has been done in all of the past 4 years. So don't worry that you will be left to suffer the effects of an exam that was too difficult. - Colin Quilter and Peter Riordan"

Yes, people have complained about the exam and our marks showed that it was difficult. And if the panel of markers find it way too hard, they'll compensate for it by giving us extra marks!! Did you hear that? That's fantastic! Yeah! Now, if you remember my gushing about the medsci exam, I was totally sure I aced it until today. The MCQs were challenging and maybe, just maybe I didn't do so well after all. Hence, the miserable note. Oh well, what's done is done. Time will tell.

So the last battle. Though it may seem to be over, the last leg of the race is far from over. I've got one last chance, and perhaps my only chance to prove myself capable and willing to be considered for medicine. I'm of course talking about the interview, probably the most important one of all time. It's scheduled to be around 11th to 21st of December with the results out on the 22nd. Scary or what? It will either make or break Christmas. And as I virtually flunked UMAT, my chances have reduced from 1 in 16 to about say, 0.2 in 16. Sad huh? But every dark cloud has a silver lining, and my silver lining is the reassurance that UMAT only counts for 15% and if I kick ass at the interview and ace it, chances are I might just be offered a place...so please please please, make it good for me. Easier said than done, people have said I'd be fine and I'd like to think that. For the rest of this month and early December, I'll be working extra hard, reading up stuff on New Zealand health care services, the Treaty of Waitangi, polishing up my communication skills and praying hard, extra hard. I need God on my side.... hehe