So for my birthday my brother got me a subscription to the scientific journal Nature. He didn't know I wanted that but I told him that's what I wanted this year. I'm actually so excited to get a full subscription to Nature as a present. I think this is something I'll continue to subscribe to for the rest of my life. I find science so fascinating. Once you put the work in to understand it, it's so rewarding to be proficient in different areas of science.
I'm kind of a rookie when it comes to the scientific world, but I really think that Nature is the most influential scientific journal in the world. That is just the sense I get. 'Science' and one called 'Cell' I think are pretty up there too. I'd say it goes Nature as number 1 then Science at number 2. If I find something particularly fascinating in Nature then I think I might post a brief synopsis of the research and why it's important. Of course, this is all assuming that I'll be able to understand it lol. I'm hoping I can at least get the gist of most articles.
For my birthday I just hung out with some of my friends. It's Saturday night, technically Sunday now but my birthday is technically tomorrow on Sunday. Me and my friends are getting together tomorrow too. Me and my friends have so much fun that part of me is going to be sad once I get into med school (hopefully at UBC) that I'll have to move away and I can't really hang out with them. I know that I shouldn't feel bad because every year that I'm not a physician I am losing out on a lot of income (and of course I want to save lives but that goes without saying). And I do want to be board certified before I'm 50 at least lol. I just turned 24 so I guess I have plenty of time but I'm reaaalllllyyy hoping it doesn't take me too long to get into medicine. I'm thinking I might apply to McMaster and University of Calgary med schools too because they are both 3 years and it would be super nice to finish a year earlier. However, Vancouver is my favorite city in Canada so obviously UBC is my first choice. I have personal reasons for wanting to be in Vancouver and I might share those reasons in the future, but for now I'm not going to.
In other news, I wrote a final exam for my biopsych course that I took in the summer. I was sick for the final in the summer so I had to write a deferred exam. And I believe I said I was going to post on why I loved that class so much, so I will try to get on that soon! I'm not really sure what my mark in that class is going to be. I know it'll either be in the 70's or in the 80's, but I'm not sure how I did on the final exam. This is actually a very important class because it was a 6 credit class condensed in the summer. So obviously it has double the weighting of a regular class and will affect my admissions average for UBC by that much more. I think I would kind of freak out if I got a mark lower than 75. That would mean that my chances of applying to UBC medicine this year would be much lower. I actually haven't completed that many classes so even one or two classes can affect my average more than you would think (which is really a double edged sword). I'm hoping my mark will be posted by the end of next week, and then I can get a better idea of where I stand.
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