Need replies ASAP! Should I skip..

[Chamahk]

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Guys this is urgent. I need your replies / advice ASAP. I was the guy with the dropping course dilemma. I dropped Bio and now I'm taking just Chem + lab.

Thing is, there is a quiz today in lab. I know absolutely NOTHING. I'm trying to study now but it's no joke. Quiz is at 6:30. It's 4:34 as I type this. Should I skip lab and avoid the quiz? It's our first lab today. You're allowed 3 unexcused absences before you get some consequence. GPA's really important for med school and if I flunk this quiz, it will affect me(in the class) not sure how much. So what do I do?? We haven't had our first test yet. This is just a quiz on one chapter. I feel like such a ******. There are kids with Bio AND Chem I got just Chem and I can't handle it?? 🙁😳 oh darn!!

As it is now, we did another chapter and we're starting a new one tomorrow in lecture so now I'm really behind and there's another quiz next week. What do I do??

[1] skip lab, avoid the quiz and study this?
[2] go to lab fail the quiz (use it as a wake up call) and work harder to pass the other quiz's and tests?
[3] reconsider Bio as a major and doc as a career? 🙁
[4] Give up on going to a top med school or at-least getting accepted into one??

 

[kitkat8]

Maybe you should get OFF of SDN and go study for the next two hours...

 

[Chamahk]

I don't know what's wrong with me. I can't seem to study / focus. I have a very short attention span 🙁

 

[cfx]

What would be the point of skipping your lab? You do that, and you have a guaranteed 0% on the quiz. If you do your best to learn whatever you can quickly and go take the quiz, you should at least get some points, right?

Does your lab instructor drop quizzes you missed or something?

 

[Barcu]

Option 2.

Go to class and take the quiz. How can it be a better option not to go? I doubt this quiz will decide your grade. Just go, do the best you can, and be better prepared for the next one.

 

[Astarael]

NEVER skip lab if you can avoid it. They are generally painfully difficult to make up for, and you could run into a tough situation later in the semester if you get sick or have a family problem and need to skip for those (legitimate) reasons. You need to do a couple things:

1) Go to lab, try to do well on the quiz.
2) Chill out. This is your first quiz, and since it is in a lab it will effect your grade very, very little.
3) Start studying. You're in college now, and it will get much more difficult than your first gen chem lab quiz. If you don't take ownership for your own learning, you'll fail.
4) Stop assuming that you'll go to a top 10 medical school. You're a freshman. You don't know how good of a student you'll be, you don't know what kind of MCAT score you will get, and you don't know if you'll even want to be a doctor when you're done. Setting your sights that high is just asking for failure. Try to do your best now, and then in your junior year assess your chances for different schools.
5) Chill out some more. You can't be freaking out about every little thing in college or you'll have a heart attack from high blood pressure before you're done.

 

[bigbad]

It's just a lab quiz... They're not worth all that much as labs are most important assignments in lab. You have 2 hours to study for it... This probably won't be the last time you study for a quiz right before class either.

Also, keep in mind how little lab classes are worth. That doesn't mean don't get an A though 🙂

 

[Chamahk]

that dilemma ended already. I'm done with classes for today. I'm going to go in the library and try and study the chapter from the quiz, the chapter after that and the chapter we've started. Amidst it all, I'll try and study some statistics as well. Let's see how it goes.

 

[latrala2300]

you started a SDN thread in order to obtain input on a decision most of us make several times per day...

 

[Tin Man]

you started a SDN thread in order to obtain input on a decision most of us make several times per day...

Kinda what I was thinking. It's like asking SDN if it's okay to Wikipedia a book rather than actually read it for the report.

And for what it's worth, having a short attention span is not a valid excuse. That has to be brought under control before med school starts, and if you don't know how to study, then you'd better learn quick, because college isn't going to slow down and wait for you.