Friday, March 19, 2010

2 weeks of epic fails!

First, we have midterms - I studied like crazy for my lab, and still didn't know anything so I just guessed on everything(I guess they call that clinical reasoning?). I didn't really study for lecture because I was burned out, and man...that was a trainwreck, but luckily mutually agreed by the rest of the class. Actually, There were 2 parts: 1 for medical lecture (85 questions) and 1 for the rest of lecture (100) questions. I'm not a test giving expert, but 185 questions for one test (on top of 100 for lab!!!) is NOT A GOOD TEST! Niether is making every question have answers like: A) A B) B C) C D) A & C E) All of the above. By question 27 I was thinking, "FML, I give up." Also, in true fashion, there were typos in nearly every question (no, seriously). Some of our favorites:
Which of the following are true EXCEPT:
answer choice: X compared with... (there was nothing to compare it with)
a. something
b. something
c. A&B
d. all of the above ...

Last but never least, we had Management...Ok, so Wednesday night I tried to study but again was so traumatized from that last midterm that I couldn't. Tried to study Thursday AM but we were getting our FW II placements so I was really nervous. I didn't excpect the exam to go that way...it was funny how much our class didn't know. Anyway, we haven't gotten any of our grades back yet which is just as well since I don't want my last spring break ever ruined!

That was week 1 of fail... week 2: Spring Break!
Sometimes I think school makes me dumber - or maybe it's all the alcohol I have to drink to get through it...but anyway, I tried some new recipes with hot mess results. First, I made pretzels - well, I followed the recipe exactly, but they were waaaaay too sticky, and then they wouldn't make pretzel shapes, and then they weren't cooked all the way - but they did taste pretty good when all was said and done. Ha!
This is what my kitchen looked like afterwards.
and the pretzels...

Ugh! Later that evening I tried to make greenbean fries - I did pretty well EXCEPT I added a bunch of flour to the mix, which I was supposed to keep separate. Darn it! They weren't terrible, but they definitely weren't great.
So maybe I should have quit while I was ahead! I need to bake something tasty and good to get my self esteem back up! Of course going back to school isn't going to help that...