As y'all may have guessed from the slacking in entries, exam week is getting to me.  Slightly worn down already, I have three down and three more to go.  My morning exam in PSYC 440 was actually not so bad.  It was a fairly easy exam, and I count on getting an A in the course.  It was my afternoon exam today, however, in BIOL 243 (Anatomy and Physiology) that has really sucked the life out of me!

I spent hours and hours going through about 60-70 pages worth of facts about the complexities of our bodies' inner workings, and as much as I am worried that my GPA might go down a bit because of today's final, I'm just quite glad that that ordeal is now over.  This is the incentive you get after taking an exam--the feeling that it's over!  There's really nothing that you can do anymore but just wait for the grades to be posted up on VIP.  In general, grades are supposed to be up within 72 hours of taking the finals, but not all professors will be able to do so.  The number of classes and number of students within each class can make the whole grading process a little longer.  Some professors will also have to coordinate with the class's Teaching Assistants (TA) for some of the students' grades.  This will be the case for practically all science classes.  Some non-science classes, like history and English, courses will have TA's too.  So there are definitely a lot of different things that go into putting all of the grades together.

It's not a fun game to wait around for the grades to come up on VIP, but thanks to the Holiday season, there's something to keep your mind off the anxiety.

Anyways...I'm just a bit tired now, so I'll get some rest.  There is still so much more to study for the last three exams.  Back in high school, our midterms were not scheduled until after Christmas break, so that wasn't very cool.  It did give more time for studying, but it was also more time to forget.  It also made the break a little less fun because we had to study during it.  Well, I hope y'all aren't in that situation.

Catch y'all later in the flipside, Gamecocks.