Holiday blues?

I haven't been able to sleep lately. It's not that I'm particularly stressed out (surprisingly!): I just lie in bed for hours, in a mindless state. Not sleeping. It's driving me crazy, now my throat has started hurting, and I know that if I don't get a good night's sleep soon I'm going to crash. Really hard.
Passing an exam on less than 6 hours' worth of sleep today was... interesting. I'm really angry at myself, but I really don't see what I could have done to avoid this problem. I was in bed by 11:30! Hopefully, my grade won't have suffered tremendously. Ugh.
2 down, 3 to go... Hopefully the ones on Thursday and Friday should be marginally easier.

In all seriousness though, I'm feeling pretty angry at the moment at how biology is instructed. Don't get me wrong; I love biology, I'm the nerd who discusses biology when I'm hanging out with my friends, biology is a big part of my life. I just don't understand why McGill would think that it is essential for a student to remember the exact number of amino acids in the SRC protein, and which antibody out of a whole list of them will cause it to immunoprecipitate?
Honestly: a day after the exam, how many students actually remember the facts we get tested on? None. We remember the important information, the signaling pathways and protein interactions, sure, but the rest is gone in record time.
In my experience of working in labs, you don't need to know all of the excruciating detail. If you don't know a fact, you look it up. So why are we, as students, expected to remember? Who expects these tests to be a proper measure of our capabilities?
The reason I'm ranting if because I just took an exam on the Molecular Biology of Oncogenes (i.e. cancer). This class, which should have been fascinating turned out being... well, not too interesting, to say the least. We didn't even begin touching on the possible ways of treating cancer until the last two classes! What's the point?

One last thing that has me a little worried: I ordered a bunch of Christmas presents from Amazon a few days ago, and chose the speed shipping option. Today I get an email that the package will be here in two weeks, and arrive exactly a day after I leave. I have no idea what to do. It's too late to cancel the order-- does this mean I'll turn up empty handed? Should I ask Sarah to FedEx them to Madagascar (that would take forever)?

I had better go on studying for my exam tomorrow. Joy!