School is getting harder and harder. We have genetics, microbiology, biochemistry & biology right now. Biochemistry & genetics are going to be a problem, the other subjects shouldn't be. We also have to take care of some of the school's animals the next few weeks. They have goats, chickens, rabbits and guinea pigs, but my class was lucky so we got the rats. :/ I wish we had the goats they are fun. Rats are relatively low maintenance though, but because they're official testing animals there are a lot of laws and regulations concerned with them.

Oh check the genetics internet toolbox thingie:
( Aliens! XD  )

Today I checked the X-men Origins: Wolverine dvd in the shop and discovered they misspelled Hugh's last name as 'Jackmann' on the cover. Seriously, how dumb can you be?

I watched the first three episodes of Dexter. dutchxfan recommended the series to me a long time ago already and I felt like checking it out last week. Not sure if I like it though. I'll have to see more to form an opinion.

Nation X #1 will have a Kurt & Logan story. I have a Kurt & Logan drabble too. It's not finished yet though. I want it done before Marvel publishes theirs :)
Horror Vacuum? Yeah I'll be working on that too. It's just that school is taking up a lot of time right now & inspiration doesn't come easy at my parent's place.

Oh and I really like Necrosha so far :)

My first week of my new study Animal management is almost over and while it's exhausting, it's also a lot of fun so far.
Because I'm doing the shortened 'track' so to speak (because of my former education) I'm currently doing an extra second year course on top of the regular freshman courses. The extra course 'People, Planet, Profit' is built around a big project, namely constructing a fictional company for a fictional client. Our client is a British animal welfare organization who wants to built a shelter for the adoption of Spanish stray dogs. We have to figure out legislation, financing, sustainability, feasibility, etc. In short; find out if and how this client will succeed in doing this project. Interesting but a lot of work.
For another course we have to investigate the reintroduction of the European Otter in the Netherlands. I think that'll be fun!

Waking up at 6 am everyday isn't that much fun though, so I will be looking for a dorm-room/ apartment in Leeuwarden a bit more actively.

I finally have my bachelor's degree!! I passed Data Analysis with an 8,5 (out of 10)!
This means I can close the chapter Psychology completely and focus on my new study!

Yay!


(France was fun by the way, I'll post about that later.)

Tomorrow is the first part of the Data Analysis exam.
I'm really nervous about it :(
It will be the multiple choice part in which the answers are based on your own generated output. Yes, the output for which you barely got any feedback...
Like with PMB there was an online test to see how well you are on track and I scored an 8,3 there, so that gives me some hope.
Thursday is the PC-exam, which means I have to do 1) A Loglinear Regression Analysis 2) five different analyses (on a different dataset) 3)combine several excelfiles (with all kind of messed up data) into one SPSS datafile.
The first one will be easy, the third one will be doable, but the second one will be hard mostly because you have to choose those five analyses yourself and have them make sense at the same time.

Not looking forward to it at all...

Like my subjectline says; I don't have much to say.
I'm still working hard on Data analysis and while it's hard, it finally feels like I'm making a bit of progress. The prof. complimented me (through the studyadvisor) on my hard work, good questions and the way I respond and answer other students on Blackboard. He said he's confident I will make it :)
Besides DA I already did a lot of stuff from my to do list!

A bit more fun though is the Dutch Marveldatabase! It's a wiki so everyone can join. I already made articles for Itsu and Lady Deathstrike* and I'm planning to do some more.

While we're still in the totally-random-department I'd like to mention BJ (and his bro) bought a new car, so we are perfectly prepared for our weektrip to France next month. They're going to pick it up tomorrow :)

*dammit it seems the Deathstrike article was accidentally erased. Hopefully the admin can restore it, but rewriting it won't be a problem either because I enjoy doing it :)

A 7 for PMB!!!

Woohoo!!!

So the evenings without computer aren't as bad as I expected (yet). I miss checking my email before going to bed & not being up to date about things the most. Yesterday I watched War of the Worlds on tv to kill the time, tonight NCIS & reading (Batman:Hush & Artemis Fowl). Tomorrow I have a Homunculus reunion and thursday BJ will visit. All in all I get through my internetless evenings just fine :)
Today I've spent the entire day working on Data Analysis and I'm finally making some progress. This trial & error set-up takes a LOT of time so I hope it wasn't all wasted on wrong answers.
Oh I passed Developmental Neuropsychology with an 8 so that's cool :) PMB marks will probably be up this week, I hope I did just as good on that.

Ack! Just one more week... or would that be; one more week and one day.
I don't know what's worse at the moment; the anxiety for the PMB exam next wednesday or the excitement for the Wolverine movie thursday next week.
It's such a weird feeling >.<

I'm contemplating going to the cinema tuesday already by myself, but I'm not sure if that will ease my mind or make it worse. I need a straight head for the exam.
Wednesdaynight BJ and I have a theatershow (Hotel Atlantico) and thursday me and the ladies from hughjackman.nl & tinkcph will go see Wolverine.

I keep telling myself; it's just a movie, chill out and relax, but that only works for a short while. Ugh I'm such an idiot!

Ok. Breathe in... study comes first! Final PMB workgroup in half an hour.

ETA: oh comicbookcounter is currently at 949. I'm guessing that particular New Year resolution isn't too impossible. That other one however...

Not a whole lot to tell. Today was the Developmental Neuropsychology exam, which was kind of hard. They asked some very specific questions like; what are the literal DSM-IV criteria of ADHD? Of course I know the global symptoms and how it all works in the brain, but if I wanted to know the DSM criteria literally I'd get the book, you know? Another; which two drugs are mostly used in treating partial seizure epilepsy, how do they work in the brain and what are the side effects?
Sure a valid question, if the exam was about epilepsy, but not when epilepsy was just a small part of the whole course.
But other questions like; 'describe the three most important theories on brain development and give examples by using a cognitive function of your choice.', were ok I guess. That's a question I'd expect in a course that's called Developmental Neuropsychology.
Anyway; it could go either way with this one. We'll wait and see.

BJ got his two remaining wisdom teeth removed today. He sounded ok on the phone, so let's hope he'll feel ok when I visit him tomorrow. Poor guy.

Like I said before it's a busy week this week. Yesterday I spent most of my time on PMB class and assignments. Today I met with the studyadvisor and got the WAIS-III (IQ-test) from the testlibrary. I've spend a lot of time reading the instructions of the WAIS to make it as smoothly going as possible when I have to subject D. (a corridormate) to it.

BJ came by tonight for group, which was VERY useful today (it was about flexibility in thoughts and actions <-- my biggest problem). After that he stayed for a while and we discussed Watchmen, random comics, fanfiction (original fiction in his case) and fanart. I dug up some fanarts I made almost 4 years ago. They aren't even half bad. Ok, they're bad, but not in the OH GOD STAB YOUR EYES OUT way. lol, that was... unexpected.
I might even be able to overcome the embarrassment and post some of it here. No promises though, you might need to get your laughs elsewhere.
ETA:( Oh what the hell )

That was funny huh? XD

Tomorrow it's PMB workgroup and testing day (test takes approximately 3 hours...) NOT looking forward to that.