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"Anything that isn't chemistry, is in fact, chemistry"

I'm halfway through my winter semester finals at the moment. It's not been as bad as I feared it would be! I got the first 4 done and out of the way in the first 3 days of the exam period. That probably made it a little more stressful than it needed to be, especially coming off the back of 2 weeks of 10 credit tests...  Chemistry is the biggest beast I'm tackling at the moment. And, as it turns out, all of my other subjects are just chemistry with a different hat on. When I sat down this morning to do genetics, I thought, "ah, a lovely break from chemistry", only to open the powerpoint and find it's talking about the synthesis and use of hormones (aka, chemistry). This phenomena is henceforth to be known as Izzy's first law of Veterinary Medicine.   It does feel less like I'm drowning in work now. A bit like when you've just about learnt to crouch on a surfboard and can make it back to shore on a wave, but a big one could still knock you off comple