Post-pharmaco-period (PPP)

FINALLY! it is over. the Great Pharmaco exam.

for so many days my family have to put up with my extended rapping, "yo beta-1 agonist, beta-1 agonist is dobutamine, beta-2, beta-2 agonist is salbutamol, it can make u breathe better, yo"

i guess pharmaco was devastating. everyone agrees yeah? if not we can go toilet and settle.

for me, i wrote until my wrist muscles were in pain. just kept writing. i think after the second question, i threw my grammar to the winds and wrote like i was re-iterating my notes. keep writing. guess i took 40 min for the first question on asthma cos i seem to remember everything!! OHHH heaven. but then after that question, it was downhill all the way as nuggets of information begin to start disappearing like noradrenaline leaking out of the presynaptic nerve cell due to ephedrine. which is bad.

rushed through the short-answer questions. answers were really short, something like one or two pages if i am crappy. there was no time at all, to recall, to actually find out what the question was asking for. usually it was a compare and contrast, "or what would you recommend" type, i just vomitted everything out in one big emetic gush. just write, even though it might be bullshit, but some things make good bullshit u never know.

i should have never studied PK. cos there was a question on graphs and the moment i saw the graph paper before the exam, i said to myself, oh shit. shouldn't have wasted my time on this.

many of the exam questions were from tutorial. which was out of my expectation since i thought these people "love the challenge", they would think of killer questions to keep our minds going, well so they did, and i ended up doing them cos i didn't read tutorials. The PK tutorial. The organophosphate tutorial. Exactly the same. ARGH.

what can i say, i could have simplified my job further if i had read into their minds a bit more. two hours - what can they possibly set? probably not much detail. the problem with us pharm students is that we read too much in-depth, fearing the repercussions of missing out points from the notes leading to loss in marks. well i guess the questions are simply to test your basic understanding of the subject, to separate the students that are awake in lecture and those who are asleep. of course, detail also leads to the distinguishing of the better students from those average ones.

i am not so. i hope i can just get a B for this subject.. if not a B-. no C+ please. yeah call me decadent if you wish, i'm just being realistic.