Still - Matt Nathanson

Another funny story about my grades...
We have this class called patient care lab where you learn mostly clinical skills such as patient counseling, setting up IV drips, compounding medications (basically mixing etc if it's not something that a company manufactures), & physical exams such as blood pressure, skin & extremities, lung, heart, abdomen, neurological, etc. At the end of the semester we have practicals where any of the skills we've learned from that semester or the one prior can be tested & we won't know what it'll be until we walk in the room or five minutes before. You can imagine it's a little nerve wracking. Anyways, the way we're evaluated is a P for pass & R for repeat. If you have one R you have to come in at a later date to redo the station you failed- if you fail again you can be held back a year. If you have two Rs you have to redo all six practical stations. Three Rs...I have no idea what happens.
To give you a background, I've always had to repeat a practical station so my main goal was to pass every one for our last set.

When I was checking my grades I saw I had Ps and Hs next to the stations & I was really confused because I didn't know what H meant. I really thought it stool for hold as in I did so badly that I'd have to talk to the professor about it- what made it worse is that there were three of them. But I happened to look at the bottom of the page which had my final grade. I kinda stared at it, realized I got an A, & was shocked. Then I realized that H means honors hahaha. As in if you exceed the expectations of the evaluator you receive this mark, three of them (without a repeat) means you get an A in the class.
What makes it hilarious is that I thought I completely failed, I'm going to give myself a heart attack.
...I have to say this...but at least if I do (get a heart attack) I'll know what kind of drugs to give myself based on my EKG! I probably lost you guys there. Sorry.

Two more days. Need a 50% to pass. Hanging in there, kinda. My mind has checked out so it's time to reel it back in.


Edit: Is it sad that I crack myself up w/ weird things I write in my notes that I forget about then rediscover it as I study? Today's example- in talking about modifiable risk factors for stroke, hypertension is one of them. My notes: "everyone gets it when they're old. Like herpes."
I'm still laughing. I know I have issues. In fact, I'll probably look back on this post & think I'm the dumbest person ever but in this moment, I still find it (myself?) funny.