In Serious Need of an Update

Hey look at that. I got a comment.  For some reason I've been meaning to update, but it keeps on getting pushed back.  But it's a good time to take this opportunity and start up again.

I've missed the Summer and Fall without updating.  Here's just a simple summary to get caught up and continue one from here.

In short, I took Cell Biology and General Biochem in the summer, and I think I found a professor to give me a good Letter of Rec in my Cell Biology teacher.  I haven't asked her to write it yet, but I did ask her if she would when I need it (which will be coming up later this year.)  Those two classes were my final two classes at San Francisco State.

Bad news, I did not do well last semester at my community college.  The biggest problem... I seem to have extremely poor sleeping habits.  It's been going on for a while, and it really messed me up.  I was getting 4 to 6 hours a night most nights for no good reason, and I really need at least 7.5 to 8.5 hours to learn and perform optimally.

I feel like an idiot for what happened.  I feel that my chances in getting in a Pharmacy School in California have been seriously hampered.  While I thought I had a chance before, I just don't know anymore.

The PCAT is becoming more and more important for me to take and researching out of state schools.  All hope isn't lost, but I took a wrong turn that is absolutely all my fault.

Expect more regular updates again from here.

P.S. Thanks to California Pharmacy Schools for sparking the return of my updates by commenting on this post.

Summer and Fall 2010

Alright, well... at 6:37am this morning I did a quick check to see if I could add my classes even though it was officially scheduled to open to to all at 8:00am, and bam! I enrolled into both Cell Biology and General BioChem. The numbers had not changed at all with 76 and 39 spots open respectively.  I refreshed the pages as soon as I added and saw the decrease immediately in the numbers, so it's pretty clear those were the actual numbers. 

Besides considering any possible difficulties in a slightly different change in system, I missed the absolutely obvious reason as to why there would be so many spots open in that it costs a lot. There was no regular half time payment for 6 Summer units. It's $1998 total for my two classes.  So I'm lucky that I have this opportunity, but I still have until June 4th to really decide if I can afford the classes.

So how does that affect my Fall semester?  I'll be moving Micro Economics to Fall, making it a total of 19 units. Biology I, OChem I, Microbiology, Nutrition, and Micro Economics. I'll be improving decent grades in the first two classes, fixing a bad grade in microbiology (due to lack of trying), and taking all new classes in the last two.

I hope to also have part time work. Likely not as a pharm tech. That would be ideal, but as I said before, it sounds like people are letting go of techs, and the ones that they are hiring, they want them on for full time. So I have my license now, but it may not get some use for a bit, unless someone wants to hire me full time for the Summer during afternoon to overnight hours.