TSR Med Students&#x27; Society Part III

Original post by Fission_Mailed

Ooh, fresh meat tomorrow. Is anyone else getting vicariously nervous (or is it just because I have a younger sister getting her A2 results)?

Yes very nervous. My little brother gets his today. I got woke up at 7 with him freaking out because he has no text message and his course is in clearing. As he still hasnt got it hes taking to pacing the house until his school opens.

EDIT - phew thank god for that! I feel so proud he got his first choice.

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buzzcat

ooo BIG day D: incoming elated people, well done!!

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Original post by Kinkerz

Biology at Leeds. Not sure she's convinced by her subject choice though. Ultimately she just wants to do nothing and everything just work out fine without any effort on her part.

My sister is going to Leeds too!

She got her result in March but her school didn't cash it in and we're all waiting for track to update to see if they ****ed up just a little bit (costing her her first choice accom) or majorly (costing her an unconditional today)... c'mon track!!

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Fission_Mailed

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My sister got AAA! :awesome:

Very happy times. Her boyfriend missed his firm, though, because the school completed buggered up marking his EPQ and it got moderated down something like 3 grades. :s-smilie:

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Sister has got into Leeds, nae problemo.

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Ahh... bring back so many tense results day memories!

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Fission_Mailed

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Tell me about it. And I was looking forward to my first August results day without worrying.

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Original post by Fission_Mailed

Tell me about it. And I was looking forward to my first August results day without worrying.

Aha. Don't really know why I was worried last year, I think I worked out I needed like EEU to get AAB.. somehow I managed to convince myself that I definitely got below EEU in my final ones.. strange how your brain works sometimes :tongue:

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fairy spangles

Original post by lekky

Aha. Don't really know why I was worried last year, I think I worked out I needed like EEU to get AAB.. somehow I managed to convince myself that despite getting 90+ on pretty much all my other a level exams I definitely got below EEU in my final ones.. strange how your brain works sometimes :tongue:

I know the feeling in my fourth year exams i convinced myself and everyone around me that I had failed. I was that convinced. Turned out I wasnt as thick as I thought I was.
I get worried if I thought I did well its never a good sign for me.

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Tech

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Congrats to everyone with siblings getting results and places today, and also well done to all the medicine pre-freshers :smile:

I was stuck in syria when mine came out :rolleyes:

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xXxBaby-BooxXx

OP

My old "I'm going to be a medic :woo:

x1000" status keeps appearing down the side panel on my facebook page. Brings back the memories :daydreaming:

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Fission_Mailed

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Original post by xXxBaby-BooxXx

My old "I'm going to be a medic :woo:

x1000" status keeps appearing down the side panel on my facebook page. Brings back the memories :daydreaming:

D'awwwwww. That's sweet.

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xXxBaby-BooxXx

OP

Original post by Fission_Mailed

D'awwwwww. That's sweet.

Just realised why I keep seeing it - It's a "On this day in 2010" thing :rolleyes:

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DrGalago

Original post by xXxBaby-BooxXx

Just realised why I keep seeing it - It's a "On this day in 2010" thing :rolleyes:

Mine did this, with all the "AAH I'm so terrified about results tomorrow..." status... I could have done without the reminder of what I was doing a year ago on that particular day really... XD

On another note, I was seriously bored and decided to go through some first year notes from the beginning of the year, just so my brain isn't totally and completely fudged next month when we go back and are actually expected to remember things.

I came across this and wondered if anyone could explain, because I feel stupid for not getting it.

(In Martini's anat & phys pg 884 if anyone's really interested...) About lung compliance during pulmonary ventilation - "loss of supporting tissues resulting from alveolar damage, as in emphysema, increases compliance"

Surely it would reduce compliance, as reduced elasticity would make it harder to expand the lungs?

Would be a massive help if someone could help clear my confusion!

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Lantana

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Original post by DrGalago

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Emphysema =less resistance and makes it easier to inflate the lungs but harder to deflate unlike asthma which restricts the airways and so makes it harder to inflate.

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DrGalago