Just blogging to show that I am still alive. Barely. In the middle of my four day stuvac that the uni has allocated to us, with the first exam being this friday. I'm not really going at the rate I want to because my goal for these exams is that the day before the exam, I don't want to have to learn anything new. That being said, there are still some things I need to fine tune for my friday exam and in actual fact, I haven't actually picked up anything in regards to the friday exam yes. Uh oh. Schedule events are as follows: This Friday: Omnometry Prac exam. We basically have to "be" an omnometrist, so all that fricken "which is better, one or two" stuff, having a "play act" with the examiner on how to take a history and symptoms (oh you said your vision is blurry? How long has it been like this for? When does it occur most of the time? Do you like chocolate mud cake? How old are your glasses?) There's also some toywork we have to do i.e. Use the instruments, and a "slide exam", where they show up slides of sick eyes and we gotta write down what we think about them blah blah. Oh, and we gotta administer those colour vision/blind tests. I'm quite screwed for that. This Saturday: Physiology Exam. The only thing I don't like about Saturday exams is the fact that the buses are not as frequent to the uni as I would like. So you have to get tehre super early as buses come every 15-30 minutes... which reminds me of the old 825 Greenfield Park way too much. I'm slowly getting ready for this but some of the stuff is really, scratchy. I'd love a solid understanding but some of the stuff feels a bit like a sieve to me. Two days away Monday: Omnometry Prac exam. What we didn't do/complete on Friday, will be done today. The funny thing for these prac exams is that we actually have to dress up in "business attire", so pretty much what we have to wear down in the clinic. So i gotta put on that suit and shirt and tie stuff and go to uni, knowing, "I'm going to do an exam." Normally I'm most comfortable sitting exams in two types of clothes: Trashy comfortable clothes like trackies and sweatshirts, or the Hurlstone school uniform. Considering I sat probably six years worth of exams in that uniform, you'd imagine I've quite adapted to them. That following Friday: Vision Science. Not too afraid about this exam. It's purely concept based and you can predict what questions they're going to ask, seeing as it's concept based. We just had an exam on this subject on the last day of uni, which covered half the content, and only a quick revision will bring that information from the dead. Almost zombie like I must say. The other half of the content has been learnt already as well, it's trapped in the depths of my memory somewhere so hopefully it doesn't take too much effort to bring back out. Don't mind the subject at all really, it's just a shame that what you know doesn't really reflect in the quality of your extended responses. Monday, not the Monday four days ago which had the prac exam, but the Monday going in the other direction, you know, three days away from that Friday, but not the Friday where we had the prac exam either... gahhhhh: Omnometry: You thought you slayed the beast in the prac exams (which is worth 40% of the entire course) Then think again! There's the theory paper which is basically two hours worth of trick questions, WTF!?'s and brain fckers. I showed Chris some of the questions they ask in our omnom exams and he had that really screwed up face that says "woah that's fcked", but I don't mean the screwed up face he puts on whenever he's happy. This exam is just a doozy, you can study as hard as you want but it is never enough. That carrot is always in front of you, but you can never reach it. Thursday: Occular Diseases: Subject speaks for itself. I have not really touched any of the work. The whole plan was to try and get physiology out of the way today (which doesn't look like it's going to happen at this rate) so I can quickly knock off a couple of OccDis. lectures. Otherwise it'd be a four day study mayhem from Monday-Wednesday night. Which I don't feel like is enough. So that's my plan out in the open there. All exams are two hours long (I don't know how I'd cope if they were three hours long a la HSC [good luck to the folkskies who are sitting for them by the way]). I'll survive it all no doubt about it, but what is in limbo is how unscathed I am by the end of it. Tan.N | 
