Graduation:To attend or not to attend

To attend or not to attend, that is the question. Just last night I was thinking about the pros and cons of going to my graduation. I've come to the realisation that the cons outweigh the pros. 

Pros: 

- my first graduation - a day I looked forward to 

- last time I get to see everyone from my class 

- a chance to dress up and have fun 

Cons:

- costly 

- can't decide what to wear

- not the degree I hope to graduate from (if it was medicine- I'd definitely attend) 

- need to measure myself to order gown by Friday 

Basically all the cons I can forget about no big deal but I can't overcome the costs!!! 

I am able to pay the costs but I am currently saving for many different occasions:- 

- got accepted to do an Arabic intensive part time program which costs £2500 a year 

- planning to do the GAMSAT which costs around 200 quid 

- I do taekwondo and have a competition in September in Scotland and national competition in Nottingham in novemember which are both costly that's excluding travel expenses.

- because of the competitions I have coming up I need to attend all lessons which aren't free 

I am greatful to be graduating and Alhamdulilah couldn't be happier. But in my current situation I doubt I will be attending the graduation ceremony. It's not the end of the world and this might even motivate me to continue to apply to medicine so I can attend at least 1 graduation ceremony in shaa Allah. 

Everyone that has passed and is graduating, congratulations! I hope you and your families have an amazing day celebrating the end and new chapter in your life. 

I haven't forgotten to update you all on my results, the post is due soon as I am waiting for the 1st of July for my classification, as they haven't told us that yet. 

Upset!

So to my surprise the grade and progression section in my univeristy website has been updated and thank fully! Alhamdulilah I passed! But I'm not happy! 

I will give you a breakdown of my results once I digest this sadness. I didn't get any first class for any of my modules this year and apparently your meant to have 4 first class in either 2nd and 3rd year, I have only 3 from last year and was hoping for at least 1 this year. 

As the univeristy didn't tell us the grades were, I hope these aren't the real results and they update it again as Monday the 20th is the official day for the results. 

Keep me in your duas. Either way if I get a 2:1 it's not the end of the world but inshallah Khayr.

Today's Exam ! Cellular Pathology!

If you read my previous post you probably realised I was feeling very uninspired yesterday BUT things have changed... The exam today was AMAZING! I honestly couldn't believe almost everything I've revised came up although I didn't remember it all aha .

The exam had 6 questions but we had to pick 5 questions to answer (10 marks each) that's 50 marks for the paper, which means 20 marks would get you a minimum pass! And 25 would be 50%. 

I tried counting my marks - being very harsh (27/50) and a little harsh (37/50). That's 54% and 74% respectively! I really hope inshallah I did aswell as I think I did. I know there's times where you think you might have answered it right but you misunderstood the question.

Anyways exams have ended in a good note alhamdulilah! And now I'm finally FREEEEEEEEEE. 

Things I want to do during summer: 

- Lab placement 

- Get a lab job and leave my part time job

- Revise for UKCAT

- Revise for GAMSAT 

- Gardening project - our garden needs ALOT of attention! It's too big of a project but I feel like once I'm done it would feel like such a success! 

I've also been into motivational/inspiring speeches and have bought some self- help books. If you guys ever want me to talk to you about anything I find interesting in these - do comment and I will let you know. 

HAVE A GREAT SUMMER or GOODLUCK! With your final exams!!!! 

Always believe in yourself (I should practice what I preach) ahaha 

I BELIEVE I WILL GET A 1st class honour!!!!!

Giving up?

So I've got my last exam tomorrow (Thursday 12th of May 2016) Cellular pathology. A very boring and fact based module. 

Firstly my revision this year was all LAST MINUTE! So obviously I don't expect to do amazingly well.

You might wonder what am I giving up on? ... I am giving up on getting a first class honour degree. This might sound ridiculous as tomorrow is my last exam but I've realised I might fall onto a 2:1 instead of a first overall. 

Let me explain. Last year overall I had 68% that's almost a first but it's a 2:1, that's 3 first class modules and 1 2:2 module. This year I can't even predict what I will be getting as they haven't even given us a SINGLE result. 

What I feel like I might get: 

Dissertation: 60-70% either 2:1 or 1st

Haematology: 60-70% either 2:1 or 1st 

Clinical biochemistry: 40-50% 3rd 

Cellular pathology: 40-50% 3rd 

That's basically around 50-60% average which is a 3rd right ? 

I'm honestly hoping inshallah that I get a first in haematology and dissertation - then hopefully I will get a first class overall for my degree. 

I am already in bed as I've given up revising - I won't say what I believe I will score tomorrow as I feel that's not very helpful! 

Will post soon to let you know how exams went or will be back once I have something to post - exam related or placement or graduation! 

Update!

Hey All! 

So I know I always say this but it's been a while! I don't even remember what my last post was about but.... So far all assignments and DISSERTATIONS! Have been handed in! I've just got two lab handbooks to hand in one by next week and the other after my last exam. 

I think I've already mentioned exam dates . I've got 1 next Thursday inshallah and I feel alot better than I felt last week about it! I'm revising (more like learning). The module is quiet interesting but our module leader (some Chinese genius - not being racist here) just loves to complicate everything for us. 

I haven't revised for the other exams either but as soon as I'm done with haematology I will definitely get cracking! 

I have so many things I do outside of uni and med application that I sometimes want to share but I feel like I need to continue to keep it this way to keep on reminding myself why I made this blog in the first place. 

I wish you all the best of luck with exams, assignments and anything else you are doing. 

Hopefully you will hear from me as soon as I'm done with exams ... With some longer posts! 

Feeling Uneasy!

It's been a while ! 

I don't think I've made much progress since the last post. Today I've got my 4th (second last) lab for haematology, I'm pretty happy about that. Although I do love this module I honestly find it quiet difficult (maybe because I'm not even revising) but I'm glad it's almost over. 

Assignments due at the moment: 

1. 23rd of March (next week) - Group Poster

2. 30th March - Laboratory Pro-forma summative

3. 13th April - Dissertation Deadline 

I have finished the lab Pro-forma work completely so it's ready for submission. 

We are almost done with the group poster - just need to add pictures and make it much more clearer and concise. 

And the dissertation - not good progress being made. The results are takin forever to collect and next week is our last week before Easter holiday. 

I'm honestly so so annoyed with my supervisor. He is toooo relaxed about the entire work. I understand he usually has time and does things according to him but we have a deadline and we can't write much without results. Anyways hopefully it will still work out. I'm trying to keep it cool so inshallah all will be fine. 

Exams: 

1. 21/4/16 - Haematology

2. 6/5/16 - Clinical Biochemistry 

3. 12/5/16 - Cellular pathology 

I'm not ready for any of the above exams, which is why I feel so uneasy Its quite scary how close exams are and the amount of prep I have done. Nevertheless, I have started revising for haematology as it's the first exam. I have revised the first lecture and made exam style questions. I sent the questions and answers to the module leader for confirmation that I understood the topic right. 

Today I will try to do the second lecture and will update on here just to hold myself accountable. 

  

Feeling bad! University group work!

Don't you guys just hate the feeling where you feel soooo bad! 

By tomorrow we have to have chosen 5 people in our group to do the poster presentation with. It seemed like everyone wanted to bring a friend along which I ended up putting 7 ppl in a group. When I went home and actually got to think about it, I realised that's too big of a group for the piece of work. The smaller the group the easier it would be. 

Instead of telling people to leave the group I decided to leave with two of my friends, although it was going to be 3 of my friends but (one is attached to one of her friends) she said she's okay with it and hopefully she and her friend will be allocated to a group soon.

So now I ended up moving to a group and now we are 5 ppl.  PERFECT right? Then why don't I feel like that!

I wish I could just have been with everyone. Now I'm thinking the teachers allocating us might not have been such a big problem. 

Anyways what's done is done! I'm also my done at this university (a couple of more months), I can't let petty things like this ruin my mood. 

Alhamdulilah for everything. Inshallah I hope the best for everyone no matter what group they end up in.

Update:

Still working on intro of dissertation ( April 1000 words).

Set up some revision times for me and some of my friends, for cellular pathology and clinical biochemistry).