So far, so good....

Well, I have my first (and almost second) round of exams done, and the results are in: so far, I'm rocking this semester.

(I mean, I SHOULD be - I really only have a few classes, so I better be acing them.)

Biochemistry I'm the most proud of. After suffering through it last year, it's finally making sense this year. Granted, I think this year's exam was written MUCH more fairly (big idea issues instead of nitty-gritty detail hidden within the coursepack), but I got a 97% on the first exam, and have been doing pretty well on the quizzes as well. The 2nd exam is coming up in a week - the topics for this section are the ones that gave me the most trouble last year, so we'll see what happens, but at the very least I have a nice little grade buffer in case things don't go as well as I want.

However, since I'm sticking to my main goal of "sticking to the man", I foresee the exam going well :)

Ethics and Physiology are going well too. Physiology I'm not really attending classes; just reorganizing my notes in prep for the exams, but I'm remember things more and some of the more complex ideas are easier to understand the second time around. I got a 94% on the first exam, and am waiting on the results of the 2nd exam from today, but I felt pretty good about it.

I really enjoy my ethics group. Our preceptor is a geneticist and very laid back, so she just lets us TALK, instead of leading us down one path or another. I subbed in on another group last week, and their group was not nearly as good as mine.

Which brings me to the other cool thing I did last week: I got to speak at the Willed Body Memorial for MSU. See, my great-grandmother donated her body to a similar program, so I was able to talk about her love of teaching and why donating her body to a medical school was so important to her. I got a lot of compliments on my speech, and - small world- got to speak to the Zussmans afterward. J's brother in law donated his body and was honored that year, so it was just  another funny way of things coming full circle.

I also (in news of my own health) have started running again and am signed up for the Ugly Sweater Run on December 1st. That seems like a long ways away, but since I can barely run more than 6 minutes without having to stop for a walk, I think it will give me JUST enough time to be able to run the full distance.

Wish me luck!