Biomolecules and Cells is officially over. Talk about over-cramming one's head with this wealth of *cough cough* knowledge~ I'm sure just like IB Biology, all of it will stream out from my ears one way or another - it's actually funny how this year I found myself piecing back together the fragments of my disjointed memory! Anyway, returning back to the topic at hand, I realised that it has been one year and one month since I have had taken ANY exam. My last one was my Paper 3 Stats for HL Maths if I remember correctly... time has seriously passed, leaving a bewildered me behind.
I actually still remember the day I finished my IB only because the rain was pouring so hard as we left the school that as my dad was driving back, the rain didn't look like droplets because the strong wind was blowing it perpendicular to its usual projection, and straight into our faces. So imagine Star Wars and the beginning theme song with its usual scrolling words, "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..." and then the zooming forward into space. Now remember those long blue rod-like shades of light? Yes? That's probably about as accurate an image I can provide on how the rain looked. But, I bet you are probably wondering how this is even linked to my bio exam today. Well it just so happened that it was raining too today - plus with the amazing drop in temperature and the strong unyielding winds, I was an ICE-BLOCK! Not those cool ice figures, sculpted to perfection but a lumbering fool in three layers of clothes that failed to keep me warm despite making sure that physical movement was inhibited in some way or another.
The hall though, was really pretty. Quite surprising a venue for such exams, almost a wasted luxury on us students who probably didn't even notice our surroundings until we exited the building. The colours were pretty vivid for me especially since I have been brought up in literally one exam hall in Patana which consisted of nothing but white walls, cream tables, greyish tiles and fluorescent white lights; if that didn't perk you up for the exam, I didn't know what would have! Hah! Maybe Mr. Bezodis and his "wave your paper vigorously in the air". Ahh - bliss... I missed those days in Patana oddly enough, when one only had to worry about the next topic test on cells or the cultural revolution. "Let a hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of thought contend". It's crazy how all my history from GCSE still sticks in. Credit to Mr. Wood of course! Maybe I should take that history subject for my breadth next year- should be interesting after all!
So... three more exams to go and the countdown continues. Calc's on Friday so that should be fun. Yeah. I'm not being serious because if that were so, Bio must have really muddled around with my head but I *think* I'm still sane enough to realise the detrimental effects of first order derivatives, directional vectors, double integration, the Sandwiche Theorem and yadiyadiyah. I really can't wait to get over this hurdle of exams to get to the holidays. It's weird to think that I could cope with three exams a day in IB. Now I just feel wasted and hollow. That's really not a good sign since it's only the first semester of uni~ Oh well, like Chumbawamba sang, "I get knocked down/ but I must get up again/ you're never gonna let me down!"
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