Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
– Philip K. Dick

So it’s Thursday night and the MCAT is Saturday. Imagine my joy. No pressure or anything, and I don’t feel all that prepared. My practice test scores have not been encouraging, even though I’ve supposedly been through all of this before. Of course, it doesn’t help when the book of practice exams gives you the wrong formula 😉 Problem is, if that actually happened on the real test, I most likely wouldn’t realize it.
At least I have Friday off. I can sleep in (you know, to five minutes past when I would normally wake up anyway, what with all these recent early mornings) and have lunch with the ‘rents. Though wouldn’t you know it, the Thurtene Carnival (the oldest student-run fair in the country) is this weekend. Joy. I get to take a test while people are frolicking around me. Yeah. Hopefully I won’t have trouble getting a parking space.
Thanks to all of you who wished me well. Though apparently I didn’t make it clear exactly when the test was, since I’ve had quite a few people think I’d already taken it (a second time, that is). I will need all the help I can get, once again. Pray that all those silly little equations that they swear you don’t really need to know will manage to stay in my head, because by golly, you sure do need to know how to find the buoyant force of a balloon…

I know I’m not going to be as prepared as those who took a class (do you have a spare $1600 floating around?), which galls me, sort of. I know that I can/could do well, but I’d do better if I had the information drilled into me. It’s sort of something that I am pretty sure I can get on my own, but I’m…not…quite…there. I’m depending on my newfound (or just newly remembered) knowledge of human anatomy to help me out with the biological section, but it’s the physical sciences section that just kills me. Every time. No matter how many stupid falling projectile problems (among others) I do, there always seems to be a part of the section that trips me up so I can’t figure out anything else for that part. Sigh.
Wonder if I’ll remember any organic chemistry? or optics, magnetics, fluid flow…one day, I will have to have someone tell me when I’m going to need to know how fast a frictionless cart rolls down a ramp when it starts from rest.
Wish me luck.