Short and Sweet.

This week is back to reality. Two exams. One tomorrow and one on Friday. Then one a week until spring break. I don't really mind one exam a week. That is manageable. We do have Ocular Anatomy next Friday and then Pharmacology on Monday. That will be a bit rough. Pharmacology is the most challenging class for me. Our professor tries really hard and knows his stuff, but he tries to make his tests intentionally tricky. The problem comes in when you add a slight language barrier. It isn't an issue in class, because if we aren't quite sure, we just ask him to answer the question in a different way. Exams are different. We haven't had a test yet that didn't have double negatives or grammatical errors. They really throw me off. Sometimes I get hung up on questions that are meant to be straight forward, but I start thinking that he is trying to trick me. It is a bit frustrating because even if I know the material really well, I don't always get the answer right...or the grade that I want. Not to mention we have two classes with this professor this semester and one last semester. I can't complain too much. I got a B in his class last semester and that is where I am at now, but I want an A!!!

The third years have us freaking out a little too. They took the board exam last week and said it was not what they expected at all. Last year a whole bunch of students from the optometry school in Boston were caught cheating on the board exam. They had access to questions from previous board exams and some of them are repeated. They ended up redoing the entire exam, and even the distribution of questions was not the same. We are told that about 30% of the exam is optics...not true anymore. They also had many more questions on basic anatomy. There were a few students that took last years exam and this years exam and said the new board exam is way more difficult than it has even been in the past. That isn't exactly what we wanted to hear.

I woke up yesterday with my first cold of the year. Not thrilled about it. Especially now that exams are about to be in full swing again. Sleep and water, sleep and water. (And Wendy, you can tell Dean that I am taking my vitamins. )

Our Eyeball dance is on Friday. We are all pretty excited about it. Cathleen's fiance is flying down for it and so are most of my friend's significant others. Krista's boyfriend couldn't fly down from Canada, so we decided we will be each other's date. We know it is dorky, but we love to get dressed up. I'll take lots of pictures.