Blogging is one of those things that everyone else does really well...

Let me just say that when I thought, "Hey! a blog would be a great idea!" it was before Spring semester started. I just knew that I was going to have so much time and all these great thoughts that I would want to share with my "audience." *cricket chirp* Yeah, well, then the semester started and things got really busy and I didn't have time to think, much less think anything that would be worth posting here.

Now that the semester is winding down, I guess I can summarize it. I took my chem lab final on Tuesday, and I'm turning in my final English paper tonight. So I can mark those two as done. Still ahead are my finals in Spanish, Chem lecture, Pre-calculus, and Statistics. This time next week I will be FINITO!

It has been a great semester, and I have learned a ton. Mostly I learned that blogging feels an awful lot like one more thing on my list I have to do before I can pick up my knitting.  I'll try to do better about that in the future. Not that anyone reads this anyway...

Testing, Testing, Am I On?

Gosh, I hope so. I'll be taking a pre-calc test in 30 minutes, and I really really hope that I learned this stuff thoroughly. I was able to do some review this weekend, and I think I understand almost everything. I'm going to see my professor in a few minutes to get one final question answered. OH, and I gotta find a joke to put on the back of my test. I've kept to a pirate theme for the last two, I think I'm branching out into blondes today. My professor gives bonus points for jokes. Weird, right?
Statistics test is on for Wednesday. I think I'll spend some time on that tonight and tomorrow. AND I have to go over my chem lab for tomorrow and be prepared for the pre-lab questions. I think I might go ahead and fill out my post-lab reports on what I can before just in case I run out of time again. That's really annoying.
I'd like to take this opportunity to say how grateful I am to be here. I have dreamed about doing this my whole life, and to actually be going to school and working towards medical school is just unreal. Sometimes I can't believe it's happening. I really am most grateful for the support system in my life. My family has made the sacrifices without complaining. It must be hard going from having Mom around almost all the time to getting used to Mom being gone a lot of the time and unavailable because of studying a good bit more of the time. I am extremely blessed to have kids that don't mind taking up the slack. I do have guilt, though. I'm a Mom. One of the best things about being in school every day is that I get to have lunch with my HunnyBunny a few times a week. It's really nice to sit down alone with a newspaper and some food and just be. I didn't want all my whining about tests and grades and professors to overshadow how absolutely blessed I feel to be realizing this dream. It's just way beyond awesome.