Exam done--and I survived
Well, it didn't turn out too bad. As usual, none of the stuff I'd spent my really intensive revision on came up, but that's just life (or is it Murphy's law?). Anyway, I screwed up on the stereoisomerism section. We were specifically told that we couldn't expect to be tested on how stereoisomerism affects the action of medicines--and yet about a fifth of the exam was on just that. How am I supposed to know how the shape of 2-methylhydroxyaminopropanoic acid (or whatever) affects treatment of HIV?! I know the basics of stereoisomerism, but we passed through the 'How Chemists Design Molecules' section in about one lesson. Oh well. I gave it a pretty good shot, and by and large I think I did okay. Some of the questions were really easy, like the bits on condensation polymerisation and dipeptides. I always get those bits right.
Anyway, time for an update on Cold Witness. I passed the 100,000th word last night, which was pretty awsome. The Rendlesham Incident is over ... but THREATS AND LIES is about to begin. I've got to the point where the NSA quit messing around and start acting like the Gestapo. *grins* My MCs aren't going to like this very much.
I reckon I've got two big chapters to go (at about 5K each) plus maybe a final, ultra-small one. It'll be kind of like an epilogue, just ... well, not called an epilogue. I'm thinking of having Major Wheatley escape from the facility during NIGHT TERRORS, only to have him come back later on to do more damage. If I can nicely tie it in with some of the subplots from the beginning of the book, it should make quite a powerful ending.
Okay, back to my revision. I've got my final exam tomorrow: 2515, or 'Applications and Implications of ICT'. *urgh*. Shuddershuddershudder.
Well, it didn't turn out too bad. As usual, none of the stuff I'd spent my really intensive revision on came up, but that's just life (or is it Murphy's law?). Anyway, I screwed up on the stereoisomerism section. We were specifically told that we couldn't expect to be tested on how stereoisomerism affects the action of medicines--and yet about a fifth of the exam was on just that. How am I supposed to know how the shape of 2-methylhydroxyaminopropanoic acid (or whatever) affects treatment of HIV?! I know the basics of stereoisomerism, but we passed through the 'How Chemists Design Molecules' section in about one lesson. Oh well. I gave it a pretty good shot, and by and large I think I did okay. Some of the questions were really easy, like the bits on condensation polymerisation and dipeptides. I always get those bits right.
Anyway, time for an update on Cold Witness. I passed the 100,000th word last night, which was pretty awsome. The Rendlesham Incident is over ... but THREATS AND LIES is about to begin. I've got to the point where the NSA quit messing around and start acting like the Gestapo. *grins* My MCs aren't going to like this very much.
I reckon I've got two big chapters to go (at about 5K each) plus maybe a final, ultra-small one. It'll be kind of like an epilogue, just ... well, not called an epilogue. I'm thinking of having Major Wheatley escape from the facility during NIGHT TERRORS, only to have him come back later on to do more damage. If I can nicely tie it in with some of the subplots from the beginning of the book, it should make quite a powerful ending.
Okay, back to my revision. I've got my final exam tomorrow: 2515, or 'Applications and Implications of ICT'. *urgh*. Shuddershuddershudder.
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