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[fahye]

Back from Thredbo. Tired & slightly hungover. Have endured neuroscience group meeting and am now bumming around the library attempting the futile mission of catching up on my flist, because as soon as I go home I have to clean bathrooms and finish immunology assignments.

I am not even going to TRY that RP-character meme because a) I have only RPed a very short list compared to the rest of you nutjobs, and b) twenty comments saying 'Lucifer!' will not be particularly enlightening. To pun badly. Though if any Wastelanders want to waste time by talking about me-as-Lucifer vs. me-as-Kenneth, go right ahead.

GAMSAT on Saturday. I am going through cycles of blissful calm and insane stress.

So, flist, anything I should see/be told?

Comments

[pirateygoodness.livejournal.com]

GAMSAT is like the Ozzie MCAT, yes? You'll be fine - just breathe, remember that you already know all of the stuff that's on there, and bring plenty of little, nutritious snacks for breaks. I cannot understate the importance of having snacks.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I JUST. AUGH. Everyone else I know has done expensive prep courses or studied for months and I am pretty much waltzing in there and hoping my natural brilliance will stand in for things like, you know, study. I AM STARTING TO SEE THE FLAW IN THIS PLAN. The flaw being that I don't know all of the stuff that's on there because I wimped out of 1st year chemistry after first semester, for reasons that involved not having to stab pipettes through my own eyeballs to alleviate the sheer boredom.

[pirateygoodness.livejournal.com]

. . .this is, maybe, a good point then.

But I know when I wrote the MCAT, a lot of what they were testing us on was just. . ."how well can you write the style of question they ask in a set amount of time?," rather than "Tell us about science." Doing well was more a matter of having good reading comprehension and paying attention than knowing every little detail of the testable material.

So, I don't know. But I do know that for a long, long day of testing like that, going into it calm with a good night sleep counts for a surprising amount. *cheerleads*

[fahye.livejournal.com]

The GAMSAT is 1/4 reading comprehension, 1/4 writing essays v. fast, and 1/2 science multiple choice. Largely organic chem. You have NO IDEA of the depths of my hatred for organic chem.

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

1. This album (www.mediafire.com/?7yzw4m5wmmz) is French, and the arist=Camille, and you will like it!

2. I've been universitätschmerzing like fuck.

3. You are obviously more like a pirate.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I MISS YOU. And I'm feeling pretty all-around miserable. French music is therefore much appreciated.

Re: 3. - my roots are showing?

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

You did not miss anything, I merely rolled around angsting and not calling home and eating away my misplaced feeling. Of course, that just replaced it with the feeling of jeans not fitting.

Re: 3 - You should get some genetic dye before that acronym!

P.S. You should read this, (http://www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/polymath_and_ignoramus.php) for it is hilarious and much like my life. The linked music also is harmless girlpop. I feel this disclaimer=necessary.

[hobviously.livejournal.com]

universitätschmerzing

Having pain due to university?

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

Correct. College pain is universitätschmerz. Like weltschmerz, but so much less justifiable! So much more self-indulgent. So much more ice cream at midnight.

[hobviously.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm, delicious emo pain.

I hate life.

[unravels.livejournal.com]

Meh, not really anything you must see immediately. I made a Tiphareth draft for SC plot here (http://unravels.livejournal.com/111811.html). Besides that, journal-wise, I've just been fooling around with the microphone. Productive weekend.

I hope the blissful calm prevails. :[

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, the blissful calm has been induced by either alcohol or determined denial. Neither of which are easy to maintain for long without paranoia regarding liver damage.

[unravels.livejournal.com]

*cowers* Oh, it's that level of stress. I think that at some point in this kind of journey I pass into a sort of numb paralysis, which is a relief for a bit. Yay, something to look forward to.

Do you have a review book? Maybe looking through it will boost your confidence again? Because you do know that stuff, I know you do. Even if you skipped 1st year chemistry, you still have to use the basics, yes?

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I have some review stuff. I am fitting it in between uni work and brief, nasty meltdown periods wherein I freeze up and panic and can't do anything at all. (Paralysis, but...not numb?)

[unravels.livejournal.com]

Ngk. Nnnnoooo, that doesn't really sound like a relief. Also, I am amazed by your endless collection of doomy icons.

*plays soothing music*

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I have icons for every nuance of doom!

[unravels.livejournal.com]

*cracks up*

You really do! My icons of doom are kind of wishy-washy.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

And yet artistic!

As doom relief, you should write me a Lucifer-Grace-Raguel ficlet.

*tempts*

[unravels.livejournal.com]

Now there is a doomy icon if I've ever seen one. ;) Wow, I haven't thought at all about what sort of relationship Grace would have with Raguel. Stop with the tempting!

Doom relief, huh. I could use some of that myself. *ponders ficlet, sulking*

[fahye.livejournal.com]

GAMSAT on Saturday.

So, uh, five days?

[profound-poppy.livejournal.com]

i too am in GAMSAT-freak out mode. and I seem to have to have told myself that since i have wiped organic chem from my memory...well heck, there's no point starting to learn it now. which is not a good plan. at all.

have you taken it before?

[fahye.livejournal.com]

EXACTLY. Stupid organic chem. I can remember the basics, but not a lot else.

Nope! First shot.

[profound-poppy.livejournal.com]

i took it last year...and oh the irony of a adv science student having a WOEFUL science section. with my marks, i would've been mistaken for an arts student, not a science one. and alas i vowed i would study *this time*. errr...which i haven't.

one word of advice: it is incredibly exhausting. even tho you get there early, nothing much happens for a while. you mostly end up stanging in a huge queue...so yes food is your friend. I was beyond dead by the time lunch came.