Strike 1

BSc: Medical Sciences (APS-GR12=37.00) APPLICATION WAS UNSUCCESSFUL

Waiting patiently to hear about the MBChB...

Asswipes!

I am hoping to increase my chances this way...

So, any change in enrolled subjects opened this week for the coming semester and end of year exams. You can change, add or drop modules for the last chance this year.

So now, instead of the original 8 registered subjects I had for the coming end of year exams, I have cancelled a total of 3, I now only have 5 left. (3 carried over from last year and 2 new ones) It's a 50/50 chance I am possibly taking here, but I have to do what I need to give myself the best possible chance.

Either I now increase my chances of passing all 5, instead of maybe passing 5 and failing the rest (as the agreement is that I need to pass ALL of them) OR I just cancelled subjects I will need to REDO next year (do I not get into Med-School and have to carry on with the QS degree) because either way, I won't stop studying. And I won't stop trying either...

5, only 5, I can do this!!!

Spanner in the wheel...

So, turns out I do not have to write the placement tests, seeing that I already wrote them in my matric year, I never knew what the results were, but I didn't get selected then. Once written, it's over, you don't get seconds.

For me, selection will take place the following way:
Matriculants before 2008 have to have at least a D symbol in both Maths and Physical Science on Higer Grade - DONE
I have to have passed atleast 8 x semester subjects OR 4 x year subjects in the first year of study at any tertiary institution, in any degree. - DONE

THEN the spanner - I have to submit a proof of my full academic record in January 2011, stating that I passed ALL the registered subjects in the year of application - FARK!!!

Provisional selection - September 2010 (based on application and academic records submitted)
Final selection - January 2011 - based on exam results of OCT/NOV 2010...

I knew writing these tests would have been tough, but I was kind of prepared for it. Now EVERYTHING is based on the coming exams and I am already stressing, there are some tough subjects and phew, this means (not as if it wasn't before) but, now really, THE BALL IS ALL IN MY COURT. It's make or break, I have to study my a$$ off for something I am not going to even do for the rest of my life, to be able to do something I always wanted. WEIRD twist on life...

Let the studying begin, seeing as I kind of mentally started shutting down towards the Quantity Surveying, now I have to FOCUS!!!

Here's to straight A's or atleast straight passes!

Application status...

Application received, got my student number (old student number just re-activated) and waiting for the info regarding the placement tests... Have just under 2 weeks to get myself prepared, bought Gr.10 - 12 maths books to get myself fimiliarised with it all again... YUCK! But I HAVE to do this!

Online application status reads:

1. MBChB (APS-GR12=37.00) CONSIDERED FOR A NUMBERS LIMITED COURSE
2. BSc: Medical Sciences (APS-GR12=37.00) SUBMITTED TO DEPARTMENTAL ADMISSION COMMITTEE

Oh the nerves!

So what will happen to Baby #2?

Well, we are not planning to put family life on hold (that is if I get selected for Med school, starting 2011) for the next 100 years. So that will have to happen inbetween all the full time studying, no working and long nights of hitting the books...

If I get in (please God), we are to start working on baby #2 round about Feb 2011 or so, hoping it works withing the first month (please God), so that baby will make his (hoping for her) appearance round about November (hoping for end of exams and the start of the holiday) so I atleast have some time (this time it will unfortunately not be a full 6 months) with her before it's back to the books and off to school for her. I already feel bad about the fact that it won't be the same as with Joshua, that I won't have THAT much time (maybe I will) but it's now or never.

All these little things to consider, makes this seem so unbelievably incredibly insane, but I will regret not taking my chance one day, I know I will. I already do...

So, still on Yas, stopping end October, will use other means of preventative method's till January or so and then start humping like clockwise... Oi, gonna be the talk of the class...