2nd year hits in, week 6!

just when i thought things weren't too bad, the workload really piled on this week! we've now started doing supervisions for human reproduction (the 4th subject we do in addition to pathology, pharmacology and neurobiology), and following the 5 supervisions we had this week i'm starting to get really tired! it's not so much the effort of going to the supervisions, but it's the fact that they take so much time out of your week, mostly in doing the essays set by the supervisors! we've been set our first essay by our repro supervisor, as well as a set of multiple-choice questions, to do before our next supervision. on top of that, we've got our path essay due in 2 weeks time, and we also got set a pharm essay for this weekend too!! arg!

i spent most of last night (fri night spent working - tell me about it!) writing up my pharm essay... this morning i woke up and did the MCQs for repro - you'd think that multiple choice questions are easy, but you wouldn't be further from the truth - they come in different styles, sometimes circling the right answer, sometimes extended matching, but the *killer* ones - the multiple true/false ones. here you get given a topic for the question, followed by a list of statements. you've got to put true or false for each statement, which requires you to know that particular topic inside out! i spent easily around 2/3 hours today just looking up stuff from 3/4 textbooks, and the net, for just 20 or so MCQs!

tomorrow the plan is to start my path essay, but i've also got a footy match in the afternoon, followed by a rehearsal for the music concert on wed, and then a mayball committee meeting in the evening! i've got practically no time to go back and read the lectures that we've had, and this is one of the annoying things you'll come to learn at cam... because you're learning things at such a fast pace (and have a fair amount of supervision work set that uses up your weekend), you actually don't have that much time to re-read the lectures you've been to, (unless you need to revise the topic for an essay!), so invariably you spend the holidays playing catch up. to be honest it's not as bad as i just made it sound - it's definitely manageable, but the one thing i can say for sure is that you've got to be pretty organised to prioritise and sort out what you need to do when.

def important to destress though - spent this afternoon refereeing a women's footy match lol, which was good fun, but Robinson only had 8 players, so we unsurprisingly lost 7-0!! just came back and finished off those horrible repro mcqs - now i'm getting ready to go off to Emmanuel formal hall tonight, which should be good fun!

sorry this entry is pretty short - if i find more time i'll try and add to it during the week - but for now tata!

kief :)