Two weeks until semester break...I just keep telling myself that. The block itself hasn't been difficult, but having at least three classes' grades come down to one final exam worth 100% of the grade is stress-inducing, to put it nicely. I guess the silver lining is that we've only had four weeks of these classes, so there isn't a full semester's worth to be tested on...but I don't feel all that much better about it :\

I've also been busy with lab animal club stuff. Since three (of four) of our executives were in junior surgery and busy as all get out, we had a quiet fall semester. This semester, though, I've been making an effort to get stuff lined up. We co-hosted a lunch lecture today on the use of zebrafish in research (which ended up in some last minute scrambling as I was last-minute-delegated to get the food together) and have plans for animal handling labs and maybe, hopefully a micro-surgery lab at the end of the year. This means meetings with the executives and with our club mentor (and lots of emailing in between). I'm also trying to get our club to be a recognized student chapter of the American Society of Lab Animal Practitioners, so that's going to require some extra work, too. I'm happy to be doing it, obviously, but it's certainly been keeping me busy.

This weekend is going to be pretty chaotic, too. I have a pharmacology assignment to work on, studying for the FOUR final exams I have next week, cleaning up the house in preparation for a guest (a friend who's interviewing up here!) and watching the Superbowl.

Let's not forget that Friday I pick my preliminary schedule for rotations next year. I quite literally have done nothing to organize that and it's kind of a little bit important(!!) so I need to get that done sometime between now and Friday evening. Add a smattering of other stuff (animal care committee, blood donor cat enrichment, etc) and this semester is making me feel a bit frazzled. But only two weeks until semester break with Danny. I think I can, I think I can...