How Biochemistry Nearly Broke Me: My Toughest Semester Ever
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School life wasn't an easy one for me back in the days, I even thought it would be when I got my admission letter, I was jumping up and down, eager to know how this new life will be, I literally rushed to school on the first lecture day so I can be in the first row and be one of the good students, attended extra lesson and all, it was fun until I got to 200 level and that was when the real struggle began. Saw the whole course outline and boom it struck me, biochemistry was one of the course I will be offering and I hated anything relating to chemistry with passion, back in secondary school, I wasn't that good with chemistry especially when we need to balance some equations or the electron configurations part which always looked like difficult puzzles and our teacher teaching styles was confusing and you dared not complain or else you will be a target in class.
But after lots of late night reading, cramming different ways to solve the equations, and even getting to know the few practicals we were taught, I managed to pass the subject and with the hope that I was finally done and now, I saw biochemistry boldly written among the courses I will be offering in 200 level and somehow I noticed most of my coursemates weren't happy too and they made it compulsory so we wont find a way to run away. now the worst thing happened, the lecturers weren't teaching but just sent notes for us to copy most of the time, and the few time they showed up in class, they barely explained anything and zoom off. Somehow, I already accepted, I will be failing this course but my prayer was to just get a C or D but not F9 because I can't come back to rewrite it.
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Exam time came, and honestly, while my coursemates were trying to cram what they read, I was watching movies that morning and we went late to school but we were lucky enough not to miss the exam but when I saw the exam questions, I was just laughing because none of the questions had anything to do with what we studied that semester, they gave us simple questions which we did really well and we were sure of it, I was happy because that should be a straight A's for all of us (so we thought). They gave us the most shocking result ever, almost everyone got straight C's and D's except the main biochemistry students who were favored. We weren't happy and we couldn't complain since it wasn't F9 but we all agreed we would do everything in our power not to offer the course in second semester.