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Friday, September 15, 2006Maybe it isn't quite Friday but I think it is. Tomorrow I have a biology lecture to sit through and then a biology lab. Then afterwards, four hours to do nothing until I have the Common Ground Speed Dating thing. I wonder how that would turn out.
I've been feeling so apprehensive for the longest time lately. Like, I don't know how my future would be. Talking to Mr. Ryan T in my physics and orgo chem classes makes me feel so lazy and unprepared for Pharmacy school - if I even get it. Apparently Temple Pharm school only has 100 seats for Temple Students. I don't even think USP has one seat for outside students. Wilkes has about 65 - according to Mr. Ryan. I don't even know where he gets these numbers. But I believe it. Everyone in the pre-pharm program is talking about it and I am getting so nervous and anxious about it.
I registered for my PCATS last week - $105 down the drain. The PCATS are in October, a month away. I am still studying and brushing up on my non-existent Biology knowledge and my shaky Chemistry facts. I am freaking out. I have to do well on this one. I have to get accepted into Temple or USP or even Wilkes' school of Pharmacy. I cannot fail. I don't know what my parents will even say if I do fail. I know they'll start comparing me to my cousin and how she got in easily.
FUCK.
They didn't require the PCATS three years ago. The PCATS are a relatively new thing. If I had known better I would have just applied to USP's six year program. Goddamn. Somehow, it's my fault.
The one pre-pharm friend (whose name I can't spell but sounds like Duh-neen) says that I should have a backup plan. Yeah, my backup plan would be applying for pharm school next year. Oh, I don't even want to think about it. I mean, technically I should declare a major now since I have more than 30 credits (36, ahem). And I think I'm going to declare biology as a major. But I need to get into Pharm school and I am stressing out about it.
I'm stressing out about my Physics class - I don't even know what's going on. Okay, I understand Newtonian/Classical Physics - mostly. But I still don't understand curved motion or how to answer "magnitude and location" questions. I know that if I reason things out, they shouldn't be so bad. Okay, my mind is separated like so - on one side I could imagine situations out and manually do the math or I could trust blindly in my calculus and arrive at the answer without really thinking about it. And I know I should do both. But after some time, I forget what omega stands for (radians/sec, I think) or what mu is equal to.
Organic Chem - oh gawd. I cannot understand the hybridizations. sp3? sp2? I'm answering the questions correctly but that's only because I'm memorizing the answers and situations in which the answers appear. I don't really understand it. And that is what scares me.
What if I become a really bad pharmacist? What if everyone will look at me in the future and say, "You are the worst pharmacist." or "If you can become a pharmacist, then I guess anyone can." Oh god. I don't know.
Biology? Man, it seems like biology is too easy. But I know it shouldn't. I know that there is a lot of stuff and the prof. is just sitting there talking about death or mumbling. I hate him. He's so old and I can't understand him.
Someone hold me.
I've got to remember to bring photoshop to the CG office tomorrow. And maybe some other programs. Ugh.
I've been feeling so apprehensive for the longest time lately. Like, I don't know how my future would be. Talking to Mr. Ryan T in my physics and orgo chem classes makes me feel so lazy and unprepared for Pharmacy school - if I even get it. Apparently Temple Pharm school only has 100 seats for Temple Students. I don't even think USP has one seat for outside students. Wilkes has about 65 - according to Mr. Ryan. I don't even know where he gets these numbers. But I believe it. Everyone in the pre-pharm program is talking about it and I am getting so nervous and anxious about it.
I registered for my PCATS last week - $105 down the drain. The PCATS are in October, a month away. I am still studying and brushing up on my non-existent Biology knowledge and my shaky Chemistry facts. I am freaking out. I have to do well on this one. I have to get accepted into Temple or USP or even Wilkes' school of Pharmacy. I cannot fail. I don't know what my parents will even say if I do fail. I know they'll start comparing me to my cousin and how she got in easily.
FUCK.
They didn't require the PCATS three years ago. The PCATS are a relatively new thing. If I had known better I would have just applied to USP's six year program. Goddamn. Somehow, it's my fault.
The one pre-pharm friend (whose name I can't spell but sounds like Duh-neen) says that I should have a backup plan. Yeah, my backup plan would be applying for pharm school next year. Oh, I don't even want to think about it. I mean, technically I should declare a major now since I have more than 30 credits (36, ahem). And I think I'm going to declare biology as a major. But I need to get into Pharm school and I am stressing out about it.
I'm stressing out about my Physics class - I don't even know what's going on. Okay, I understand Newtonian/Classical Physics - mostly. But I still don't understand curved motion or how to answer "magnitude and location" questions. I know that if I reason things out, they shouldn't be so bad. Okay, my mind is separated like so - on one side I could imagine situations out and manually do the math or I could trust blindly in my calculus and arrive at the answer without really thinking about it. And I know I should do both. But after some time, I forget what omega stands for (radians/sec, I think) or what mu is equal to.
Organic Chem - oh gawd. I cannot understand the hybridizations. sp3? sp2? I'm answering the questions correctly but that's only because I'm memorizing the answers and situations in which the answers appear. I don't really understand it. And that is what scares me.
What if I become a really bad pharmacist? What if everyone will look at me in the future and say, "You are the worst pharmacist." or "If you can become a pharmacist, then I guess anyone can." Oh god. I don't know.
Biology? Man, it seems like biology is too easy. But I know it shouldn't. I know that there is a lot of stuff and the prof. is just sitting there talking about death or mumbling. I hate him. He's so old and I can't understand him.
Someone hold me.
I've got to remember to bring photoshop to the CG office tomorrow. And maybe some other programs. Ugh.