Have you heard about the word?

Ok so exams are over, got really drunk last night in 'celebration' of their completion...however...im pretty sure i will be redoing them in a few weeks..!
Ok so the first exam we had was REDICULOUS! And everyone thought the same, the worst thing i did actually was watch the family guy episode with 'the bird is the word' the night before the exam (youtube it if you havent seen) so the song was in my head throughout the entire exam making the already hard questions impossible to concentrate on... question one: autopsies....Have you heard about the bird?...SHIT....question two: Hypersensitivity reactions....everybodies heard about the bird.....question 3...B-B-B-Bird bird bird....and you can kind of see where that went! So got off to a bad start...but so did everyone else so that was good, as if everyone does bad, the grading is dragged down so its easier to get a 4 or a 5....
After the exam I had made plans to go to the hairdressers as my hairdresser was going on holiday the same week and i needed my hair doing for a ball im going to...anyway, enough with the excuses, i didnt end up revising for the 2nd exam, especially when the 1st exam had dashed all my confidence in revision being useful only about 20% of the things i revised actually came up!

The next day was the multi station exam, so u go round stations looking at specimens and stuff and answering questions... and u need a lab coat. I got to the exam and of course, id forgotten my lab coat...I thought im sure i can lend one but no, they had to make the BIGGEST fuss out of it, ringing people up at the med school asking how i should be dealt with...to cut a VERY long story short they ended up just giving me one..after causing me half an hour of stress making me think i couldnt do the exam...just what i needed! Strangley enough the exam was ok, i actually found it easy...We had to present a history to a doctor at one station and I hadnt learnt mine as i spent the previous day at the hairdressers and sleeping...but he let me read it off the paper which was really useful...but I completely forgot id printed on both sides, so i read the history of presenting complaint which was on one side and nothing else, no drug history, social history, medical history, Im so dumb, I think back to some of the gormy things I do and i wonder how anyone can be so stupid! Id read them on the morning of the exam and had the paper infront of me...owell...that was an automatic fail..! But the rest of the exam was ok...leading me into a false sence of security...

So the last exam, I was sooooo excited, but nervous, as only one exam had gone ok, so if this one went ok I would probably pass and be fine, but if it was hard i was almost certain to failure...So its multi choice...easy you say....i thought if iv got a few answers to choose from how hard can it be....i was SO wrong...I couldnt even quote the question due to it been constructed from words id never seen before, but to give you a basic understanding of the difficulty level...question one was something along the lines of 1,3-biphosphglycersomething is converted into 1,6-tryphosphoglycenicsomething else, which enzyme catalyses it....I do realise non of those are real compounds, but the compounds could have been fake for all i knew...there were 10 answers to choose between and were all along the lines of (a) 2-phosphorylase trisulphinate (b) 3-phosphorylase biglycerate (c) 3,4-phosporylase....etc etc....If your not at med school yet your probably thinking im sure u should have learn that...but NO-ONE learns specific enzymes for stupid biochem reactions, well maybe some people, but only the really really good ones...who enjoy revising! Fair enough ask about basic reactions that we actually NEED to know, but this exam took the absolute p*ss! The first 30 questions were similar to the one i just wrote, it could have been in spanish i would have had the same chance of getting marks! Someone started crying in the exam, just to show the absolute horror of it! I was ready to laugh after abit, every turn of the page i was holding new hope for a lovely jaundice question, or chest pain, or diarrhoea, just something we'd actually learnt...but every turn of the page destroyed any hope i had!

Anyway, the last few questions were ok, which left me on a high, i didnt go through and check as it would have just depressed me again so i left with my head held high...well maybe not high but not down either...and exams were OVER! It was the best feeling ever, to just go home and not worry about anything and sleep for as long as i wanted! We were 'celebrating' from quite early on meaning today im feeling abit worst for wear but i dont care as i can sleep allll day!

Just got to forget about results now...im sure ill have done ok, when i say ok i mean passed....but it will probably be the lowest pass ever..but u never know, people always leave exams feeling they could have done better, and its medicine...its supposed to be hard! Iv been asking my bf about some of the questions i took an educated guess at and i seem to have got a fair few right so we'll have to see! Results are released on the 9th of june, so fingers crossed!

Hope everybody elses exams have gone fine and for those of you still revising good luck! x