H3

After much consideration, I have changed my mind of applying for a second H3 subject which will require me to downgrade one of my H2 subjects into a H1 due to the cap on academic units.
Initially, I thought of applying for it and see if I am accepted since I am eligible for applying another H3 on Biology or Chemistry.
If successful, I will downgrade my H2 Economics into H1.
However, there was this dilemma in me all the while.
Because, I felt rather reluctant to downgrade any of my subjects and also if I were to reject the offer after I am accepted, I would have denied someone else who is interested the place.
So, I went to seek advice from my civic tutor and she said that actually one H3 is already good enough.
If I am not taking another one, perhaps I can spend more time on my weaker subjects like GP and also avoid the trouble of adapting to a new schedule with the change of H2 to H1.
Unless I am really so passionate about that particular H3 or else she would advice that I stick to the status quo.
Honestly, I do think that I need to allocate more time for my GP.
So, I gave up on applying finally.
Since that I have made up my mind not to take the H3, I might as well just not apply for it since that it might possibly take up someone else's place.
Furthermore, I have already got the H3 that I wanted which is in biological research and I am currently enjoying it.
Not that I am not passionate about the H3 that I thought of applying, just hope that this sacrification can be translated into high grade for GP as well as A for all other subjects.

Okay, enough of H3.
Today, I read in the newspaper that on 27 October, a French professor and leading heart transplant specialist Alain F. Carpentier announced that a fully implantable artificial heart will be ready for clinical trial by 2011, and for alternative transplant in 2013.
This prosthetic device beats almost exactly like the real thing using electronic sensors to regulate heart rate and blood flow.
"If you showed the electrocardiogram to a cardiologist he would say 'that's a human heart.' Well no, it isn't: it's a prosthesis," they said.
Alain Carpentier said it had taken him 15 years to perfect and claimed his device overcomes some of the drawbacks with other prototypes.

Heart disease claims some 17 million lives a year. Existing pneumatic heart implants are intended only to be used as a stop-gap during transplant operations or while patients await a donor organ.

The new heart is covered with specially treated tissue to avoid rejection by the body's immune system and the formation of blood clots, and can respond instantly to blood pressure changes thanks to guided missile technology.
Prof Carpentier cites their use of sterilised ‘bioprosthetic’ pig cartilage and exactly replicating human heart blood flow – hemodynamics – to overcome the biggest stumbling block to artificial hearts: blood clots.