Bittersweet

Finals week: This week is stressful, exciting, sad, wonderful, hard work, fun, and exhausting all rolled up into one. It's a bittersweet feeling.....so nice to have classes over with, but so sad to have to say goodbye to everyone.

Let's recap the past few days:
Last Friday (not technically a part of finals week, but whatever): First part of the Cell Biology Final Exam: the Essay *ominous music*. We just had to sit down and write about the Central Dogma of Molecular Genetics (if you really care to know what that is, ask me about it sometime. I'll tell you waaaaay more than anyone should know). I wrote for nearly 3 hours on this thing. But it was a relief to have it over.

Saturday: Collapse, hang out with friends, etc.

Sunday: 3 fire alarms (false alarms) in about a 17 hour period: 2 a.m., 4 p.m., and approximately 4:30 p.m. The two afternoon ones involved standing outside in the pouring rain. Also, tornado warning! Definitely an interesting day, weather-wise. Unfortunately, it was never bad enough that we Kansans felt the need to go down to the basement (i.e. we never saw a tornado on the ground heading our way)

Monday: Reading Day - Rachel spends a good portion of the day sleeping.

Tuesday: (today) 2nd part of Cell Bio final- multiple choice. Also, Receiving-of-the-Final-Grade-for-Cell-Bio, because Hugo is very prompt in his grading. I got 58 points out of 60 on that huge essay (super exciting!) and an A overall in the class! YEESSS!

Looking ahead:
Wednesday: No finals for Rachel. Relax, finish up chemistry lab reports, and study.
Thursday: Chemistry and Speech final. Speech is pud, hopefully I'll do well enough on the chem final to keep my grade at the borderline A it is now.... :/
Friday: No finals for Rachel!!! Woot woot! Hanging out and packing up.... :(
Saturday: Back to Salina for SVHE graduation. Then back to Hesston for last night with my family here :( :( :(
Sunday: Hesston's graduation. Saying goodbye to everyone, some just for the summer, some til who knows when....maybe forever. Sunday is going to be the first time I've seriously cried since my last basketball game, which was over a year ago. :'(