Words can't express what we just went through. Haha. I love cardiology but trying to do it all in two weeks was just crazy.

Last Thursday we had our cardio pharmacology test, probably the hardest one of the year. It covered an immense amount of material, and the exam was only 25 questions, which meant you really had to know your stuff. I walked out of that exam thinking "I definitely just killed a patient...or two." There were drugs on there I didn't even know what they did, and I guessed on at least half of the exam. However, it goes down as the biggest stroke of luck in my entire academic history. Class avg was a 74...and I got a 100. I laughed soooo hard. That never happens, I'm always right at class avg or a question or two below. Unbelievably incredible.

The following day we had our radiology exam. I didn't study all that I wanted to, because I went to a Boondock Saints party the night before....(that shows how tired I'm getting, me going out on a school night). Almost nothing that I studied was on the exam, I guessed on a bunch of questions, but luck AGAIN was on my side and I got a 100. What a great confidence booster.

As soon as the exam ended that Friday, things got serious. We had our clin med cardiology exam the following Monday. This is not an exaggeration: I had 2.5 days to learn 90 pages of front and back, size 12 font outlines. It was unbelievably crazy. Imagine being in college and taking a cumulative final...but never studying the material in the first place...and having 2.5 days to learn it all. It's kinda like that, but times two.

Monday rolls around and I take the exam. Hardest thing I've ever taken in my life. It took me 40 mins, most exams take me 20. I knew 10 questions out of 50. 10. I guessed on 40 questions. Talk about a buzz kill. People walked out of the exam just laughing because it was that absurdly hard.  I told myself "If you get a 50 on that exam, you will be the happiest person in the world." My luck from the two exams before definitely ran out because I ended up failing overall, and failing miserably, but thankfully I got well above that 50 I was shooting for. The good news is that we had our exam review yesterday, where they show us the correct answers, and I know the material. I just had a bad testing day. I care less about what my grades are, I just care that I know the material. Walking out of the exam feeling like I didn't know anything about cardiology (which is 17% of our boards btw, and almost every pt you see will have a heart problem) was a huge bummer, but I felt a lot better after the exam review.

It was just crazy. Thankfully that's the hardest one of the semester, until finals roll around. I took Monday night and even Tuesday afternoon off to recuperate, because I definitely needed some mental health time (although I'm pretty far behind right now). Thankfully this week was lighter and I could afford put time into recovery.