So, I’m trying to get all of my graduate school whatsits organized, which is quite the ordeal considering the number of schools I am applying to and the hoops I am required to jump through for each.  Application shenanigans aside, right now I am focused on studying for the subject GRE examination in Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology, which I take in 2 weeks.

This is a doozy of a test, featuring 180 multiple choice questions!  ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY!  Am I the only one who thinks this is crazy?  That’s way too many opportunities for me to screw this up, and how did they decide on that number anyway?  They might as well have just rounded it up to an even 200 while they were at it!  This is pencil and paper too, no fancy computerized version like the general GRE.  I will be crouched over a cramped desk with little or no surface area trying my darndest to correctly answer 180 flipping multiple choice questions.

36% of this exam is centered around Biochemistry.  I will have had 2/3 of a Biochemistry course going into this exam, the rest I am attempting to teach myself.  This would be all fine and dandy if I hadn’t put it off for a bit too long (read: until now), and now I am fully expecting to bomb the crap out of this exam.  No big deal, just a $140 blow to my ego and horrible scores sent to my top grad school choices. 

Okay, doomsday is not imminent, and I will probably do at least halfway decent on this horrid exam.  However, if I happen to fall into a Biology induced coma, talking to me about something non-biological like literature or art history and I should come around.