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It's a rite of passage. Before you can become a doctor, you must thoroughly floss your mind clean with our bzillion strands of useless information! My GP says he never, never, never uses ANYTHING he had to study in college. GRRPH! I'm now surrounded by mostly premed students who HAVE to get A's. Poor saps. But it makes it harder for me to take advantage of curving when the chaff has all been blown away. :-)

I just wrote to the profs in Biochem and Organic Chem to tell them what's happening and that I'm still going to get As in their classes. I am dropping P-chem as the writing is on the wall in that one. (WORST TEXTBOOK I HAVE EVER USED. Full of errors and it has totally undermined my confidence with thermodynamics...and I got As in all of the prerequisites. 62% on the first exam. GRRPH.)

You all are in my prayers tonight. I've never ever in my life felt so close to so many people I don't even know personally. The pain and fear is so much less than it was--even the negative stories give me a more realistic view of what's happening to me.

You all are in my prayers tonight. I've never ever in my life felt so close to so many people I don't even know personally. The pain and fear is so much less than it was--even the negative stories give me a more realistic view of what's happening to me.

I'll be praying for you, too.

Don't give up on the P-Chem. You have job security right there in front of you. If you choose a career in the pharmaceutical industry, you have it made. I spent 31 years at DuPont as a thermochemist. The new instruments today make it very easy. Things have really changed; btu's to kcal to KJ. Reaction Calorimeters, Differential Scanning Calorimetry, Thermogravimetric Analysis and Accelerating Rate Calorimetry make the job very easy. Watch a hydrazine reaction run out of control, did major damage to the ARC instrument but that's the basis of it's design.