Chiropractic Days.
It’s only occurred to me that Fridays are jam-packed full of all my chiro classes – a lecture and 1 hr and 2 hr tutes and that’s probably the reason why I had 3 exams today: a chiro quiz and spot test and my biology midterm.
With the exam at 8 o’clock, I spent the morning train ride cramming. Before the exam, the lecturer gave a short lecture on Ethics where she eventually talked about the repercussions of cheating in an exam: we’re cheating ourselves and those that we’re cheating off. The marks are scaled to align with a bell curve and if everyone got full marks then we’d all get credits and it’d be as if we didn’t do the exam. However, if one did choose to cheat and assuming from a smart person then you’ll drag that person’s marks down. Is it right that he who studied hard didn’t get the results rightly deserved? She informed us that she would leave the room returning later to collect the papers so the decision of whether or not to cheat was up to us. “There’s no point in cheating”, she continued, “Because the exam’s only worth 5%”. I’m pretty sure I failed regardless.
The next hour was spent drinking hot chocolate and cramming for biology before having the spot test. Worth 2.5% I managed a pass making up for the previous one. Skipping chemistry, I ventured off to the library to study for the last 4 lectures. There I met Trannie who was also studying but for her finals. Also met Su to which we began complaining about not knowing anything although she reasoned that I ‘knew’ my stuff because I only had to cram the last 3 lectures that day compared to her 8. Haha, yeah right!
The exam consisting of 20 MC questions were really specific so I hope I pulled a pass out of the bag. I walked out 25 minutes into the exam because I’ve learnt my lesson. You know when you sit there hoping that the answer will come to you? Well for me, it doesn’t; Logic decides to run and hide during these times. Afterwards, the group of us painstakingly went through the exam and even though there were only 20 questions we could only remember half? If only we had study groups before the exam, we would have blitzed it! It was fun arguing our points and hi-5ing when we were correct!
The two hours before my next tute, I managed to convince the group to play a game of pool. Success! The best $2 spent – it took us 45 minutes to finish! Brittany, a chick who lives on campus, took me to her place and I spent the whole hour literally ‘ohhhing and ‘ahhingg’. How cool would it be to live on campus? Sure you’d have to cook (cleaners provided) but you’d be living with a bunch of close mates? Eventually, the 2 hour chiro tute was awesome, we learnt how to find restrictions in a patient and as a result which areas they would be experiencing pain. I’m really looking forward to trying it on someone. Anyone want to volunteer?
You gotta love Fridays: uni from 8am – 5pm!
