The first two weeks of march

March is here, and the engine is supposedly to be gathering steam.

No it's not for me. my mind is still filled with thoughts of nuanxin, grand theft auto san andreas and... well that's pretty much for now.

Three tests have flown past since school reopened after the mid-sem break. Two of the test results have been announced.

Think i didn't do very well, i mean, well enough than some people, but yet, not well enough than other people, u know. somewhere in the middle.

I shall not attempt to hide my results. They're not absolutely fantastic either.
LSM2101 after-midsem test: 85%
PP2106-the-killer-test: B

Pharmaco(logy) test results were out today, and people scrambled to read them. I say i got somewhat of a blessing in disguise. There was negative marking, so that pretty much killed off some classmates who were too eager to answer questions. I went in without much knowledge when i enter and i still got away with a B. (But yet, i attempted most of the questions, so i probably got some friendly fire as well...)

Pharmaco test was horrible, it was true/false --> you MUST know whats going on, and it was in true medico-style: there were 25 questions, with 4 sub-parts in each question, means u had to answer a total of 100 questions in a time of 45 minutes. Shockwave from the lecture theatre.

I guess.. after these two tests.. I really know where my limit is and that my Mr. Fantastic streak has stopped (well, actually i realised that long ago). Was talking to a friend yesterday and he said that grades weren't everything in university, it's what you do ultimately at your workplace that determines how far you go, or something like that. Examples such as successful millionaires without degrees have been quoted ad lib, which i somewhat agree. Not everything can be solved with knowledge.

It's sad that we're directly pitted against our own classmates, again, to stress, some might be our friends, close friends, or cliques. When a friend of yours gets better grades than you, naturally you'll feel jealous, saying "hey why am i getting lousier grades than him or her?" despite being such good friends. And to those who are not within our clique we might even make malicious remarks. But, cruel as it seems, i guess it's the university's ways to make us realise that, in the workplace, no matter how close you are to the particular person, you'll still find out that he or she's an adversary in some matters. For example, fighting for opporturnities, or even promotions. There is no right or wrong - it's right if you come out winning, and wrong otherwise.

Sigh.

For now, for this sem, i still hope i can have grades good enough to survive. May not get into second upper honors. May not do FYP. Let time decide. I just hope to get a good clique of real friends by the time i leave, a great relationship with nuan, and many vivid colourful memories that bring back wonderful bouts of nostalgia in the near future.

No test next week (week 10). Tests ahead:
Week 11: Lab tests (tues, wed), pharm analysis test (thu)
Week 12: pharmaco test 2 (thu)
Week 13: LSM CA 2 (tue)
Week 14: reading week
Week 15: final exams.