Famous Last Words Week 5

Thoughts of someone who knows french and browses the internet way too much

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So this week was a pretty busy one for me: got signed up for the MCAT, preparing a presentation on a scholarly article over epigenetics in psychosis, and I had an Ecology test. Not only that, but I'm studying for the MCAT itself, which is a mammoth of a task on its own. The main issue that a lot of people have when going into a full length MCAT test is the stamina factor: the new MCAT is 2 hours longer than the previous version and it'll require the student to be consistent throughout their performance. Thankfully, the new MCAT has their sections laid out like so: chemical and physical foundations of biological systems, sociological and psychological foundations of biological systems, biological systems and molecules, and critical reasoning. This gives a format that balances the time the student spends on the easier portions of the test relative to the harder portions.
   I think my best work in this class this week was my Storytelling, again, because I was able to find a way to make the original story's message more effective or just make the character's experiences more meaningful. This week I chose the Voyages of Sindbad, specifically the seventh and last voyage. I thought the original story was not very good at making Sindbad's experience very resolute in this tale. For me, the story's end is supposed to be the "punchline" of the entire plot, and I didn't get that impression when I read the original. The one modification that I wound up building into my retelling was that Sindbad experience different situations and creatures that he had encountered on his other adventures. I thought this would be a great way to show that Sindbad had indeed learned from all of his experiences and retained those lessons in his middle ages.