Okay, I am kind of starting to freak out
. As a few of you know, tomorrow, I have to take the first steps to getting my PhD (for real -- I know all of you Europeans think our system of PhDs is insane with the exams and classes we have to take
), but tomorrow all day I have our PhD qualifying exam -- to see how much we know and how smart we are -- and if we have the correct books and materials to be able to answer 18 questions in basically any subject area under the sun. This exam is pretty much like the boards that medical students have to take their second year of med school. We have to take this test in the second year of our PhD studies.
I am well prepared, with previous exams, and solutions, quick notes of every class my roommate and I have taken, physiology, circuits, signals and systems, and ion channels books galore, and my trusty graphing calculator, but I've spent most of my time organizing my stuff rather than actually studying. So I am kind of freaking out. LOL. I realized that I've spent so much time preparing, that I didn't really spend any time studying
. My professors all told me not to worry about it and not to stress out because I will be okay, but now I am starting to really freak out, since it is just over 13 hours away.
So any happy thoughts or well-wishes would be greatly appreciated!!
- Laura
(totally stressed out, but tomorrow it will (hopefully) be over . . . if i pass)
