So I wrote an English midterm this week. Felt good to get it out of the way. But still not sure how I did. Luckily, the weighting is only 15% so it doesn't make or break my final English mark, per say. After the midterm is marked I believe I will have grades for about 40%-ish for the course.
I'm not doing bad in the course overall, so right now I'm looking forward to improving my writing over the next 7ish weeks, and hopefully getting my mark back before Christmas.
I spent a lot of time two weeks ago trying to decide which courses to complete after I'm done with my current courses of English, Bio II, and Orgo I. I'm thinking I'll continue with the basic science pre-reqs. Despite their difficulty, those courses will benefit me the most and help me prepare for the MCAT in 2017. I think around February 1st, I will decide which date I'm going to write my MCAT on. I need to finish the pre-requisites also because then I can register for biochem as well, and that course will be preparation for the MCAT too. I'd like to have all of bio I and II, chem I and II, orgo II and II all completed before I start biochemistry I. Which means I need to complete about 3.5 more courses. I'm also going to do calculus I and II and physics I and II at some point too. I'll get a better idea of when I'll be done lower level sciences after I finish Orgo I.
Also, my mom received a significant asset from a family member this week. I can't get into the details too much at this point but I can say that financially, we got a major boost with this news. So I have to decide what we're going to do with the money. But we did decide that we're going to invest the vast majority of the funds, so we just have to figure out what to invest in. But if I get my way, it will be in index funds. I'll also write a post about compounding at some point too by the way.
We're currently afloat just fine right now so we would rather put the money away and have it work for us instead of increasing our lifestyle at this point. Pretty interesting developments though. Talk soon and take care.
