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They look just like ladybugs at least. The color varies from brown to a red, with black spots. I tried taking a picture, but my camera won't focus that well in such a close up. wtf, a negative? seriously?

My advice? Paramedic school is not EMT part 2. It is totally different. Study everyday. Don't try to get a passing grade, try to know it all, verbatim, backwards and forwards, because there is no such thing as a 75% successful intubation or cardioversion. Every person that was in my paramedic class who now works professionally used to consistently score at least 90% on their written and skills exams. Know your BLS skills, but don't obsess on them. You will have the bitter 'experienced' EMT's try to rattle your nerves by making it look like knowing the textbook ratio of compressions to ventilations in CPR is more important than knowing the principles of circulating oxygenated blood in a person in cardiac arrest. Correct splinting might save a limb, knowledge of cardioversion and cardiac drugs will save a life. Know yourself and be confident in yourself, because everyone will be trying to tear you down, from the EMT's who can't hack medic class and will use you to vent their frustrations, to the nurses who don't think paramedics should go anywhere near 'their' patients, to the doctors who were born with 'argentum coclearium rectus' (silver spoon in the ass), to your preceptors who will only be there to make sure you can do your job, not to be be your friend, you will be on your own, you will be a new person in a relatively new profession. Be sure you want to do this, be sure your desire is pure, the adrenaline rush will wear off, you will get to the point where you want to tear the siren off of the ambulance, shoot it twice, and throw it into the river, you will realize for how many patients how little you really can do, and if you got into this field for any other reason other than the purest of intentions (or, I suppose, because you are sociopath who enjoys hurting others), you will be burnt out before you graduate. In the end, however, if you make it through, if you pass the tests, written, skills, and life, you will be a very special person, you will be unique among men and among the medical profession, no one will appreciate you, no one will respect you, few will even know what you are actually capable of, your victories and defeats will be personal and private, but if you succeed, as my Clinical Instructor once said, you will have earned my respect and you may call yourself my colleague.