.Thank god it’s Friday ! I’m just about recovered from the complete mental breakdown i suffered after returning from a horrific day at college! It all started on Thursday evening to be precise, after enduring the Hep-B vaccine . Now I wouldn’t be a squeamish person in the slightest , but still no person in their right mind would be looking forward to receiving a jab in the arm from the very friendly yet professional cit staff. It wasn’t as bad as I had thought though and left with just a bandage reminding me of the pain endured for science. All was fine until later that evening , when I began to feel nauseaus and woozy . Bang went my plans to hit the tiles that night and so I found myself in bed at 11.30, feeling quite sorry for myself and quite bitter that I had willingly forked out 58 squid for the privilege of such a feeling, lucky me !
On the plus side however, I woke up feeling much better , relaxed and refreshed, ready to take on Friday , which is a stressful day containing two lab sessions and a chemistry lecture mixed in , just for laughs . Our newsletter had been put together by the fantastic Soracha so was feeling confident about the day that lay ahead, in hindsight , my confidence was most definitely a bit premature!Firstly , I spilled my pasta all the way down my t-shirt at lunch, which gave great entertainment to the surrounding table but meant embarrassment for me for the rest of the day !
Had stress of all stresses trying to get the newsletter printed off , as the printer decides to be out of order ! Then to top it all off I couldn’t quite grasp the calculations for the titration experiment in the Chemistry Practical which meant at five to five , I handed up the finished result, last in the class and I’m 100% positive that my calculations are a disaster !
As you can see , I had gotten myself into quite a state at this stage and after spending another half an hour in the computer labs with Kate, we still couldn’t quite figure out the newsletter situation. I left college on the brink of tears and arrived home in foul form. After such a bad day I had convinced myself that I am the worst biomedical science student to ever cross the threshold of EITHER UCC or CIT, and that’s saying something ! I realised that I seem to be struggling in every aspect of the course and found myself wondering whether I had make a huge mistake choosing this course ? As I have mentioned in previous blogs, our team mate and good friend Katie has pulled out of the course as she found immediately that it just wasn’t for her. After the day I had, I began wondering whether I should follow in her footsteps or struggle on a bit longer and see if I find my feet. In the depths of despair I did the only thing that seemed logical , I had a bath!
I steeped in there for a good hour I’d say and emerged clean and wrinkly, with a new perspective on this college buzz. I made a decision that I’m not going to give up until I’m literally escorted from the premises ! It’ll take some hard work and I probably won’t have a very great social life for the next couple of months but I think I can do it . Fingers crossed anyways...
Kites fly highest against the wind, not with it.....
Soppy stuff I know guys, but anything to get me through the assessments next week eeek !
Apologies for the ridiculous length of this post , better out than in
Deirdre x
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