Finally almost done...

I got my heart transplantation paper back and I got 88%. There were some other tasks associated with the project that weren't directly related to my paper and I didn't do as well on them, so I got 80% on the entire project. 80 or even 88 is pretty bad considering how interesting I find heart transplant surgery. However, I did get deducted because I used too many colloquial medical terms and that sort of thing, so it makes me feel better that what I was doing things that were, sort of in a way, too advanced for the course. Also I got deducted because I didn't include enough descriptive epidemiology. So that was a simple omission and not really a deduction from the content I put into it. She also gave no guidelines on how much descriptive epidemiology we need, so I figured a few graphs/tables were enough. Anyways if I had not used colloquial medical terms, and also included more descriptive epidemiology, I would've got about 97%. I can deal with a few simple mistakes, and I wish I had fixed them before I handed it in, but I also wish it didn't affect my mark so much. At least she thought my paper was "great" and "fascinating".

I wrote my third exam today and I only have one more to go. I'm in the zone for the next test, but my mark may be quite low in that class. I can't wait for next semester to bring my average where it needs to be. If I get straight A+s next semester, I should have around an 85 average for the school year. That is a good average and only about 3-5% below where I want it to be. That is only one year out of many though, and my overall average needs some work.