When you had Dr Puthoff as your professor for path what was your way of approaching studying Robbins?
Remember that you're talking to a German former engineer, verstast du? -- so when you tell me you want an outline, I will give you the compleat, perfect outline -- if you say you want it handwritten, it will be error free with no smudges in handwriting you can read -- some call it OCD, I call it following directions ---
So, as only Putthoff can, he told us to 1) read the chapter like a novel 2) use the general outline on the first page of each chapter as a general outline 3) outline the chapter paying particular attention to bolded/italicized/underlined text and any tables/figures 4) repeat each step adding in detail with each iteration.
First chapter, I did that -- at about 4 pages an hour -- given 60 page chapters, you could tell where this was going ---- so then some second year was selling outlines that included all manner of symbols and hieroglyphics that were basically a rewrite of Robbins which didn't help.
I wound up getting ahold of some outlines from some upper classmen and followed those along with the reading of each entire chapter, modified them to my liking and then went over the notes pedantically ---
what truly worked however, was when I had the time to read -- if I read it with focus and understanding, I only had to do it once -- problem is that gets tiring and I found myself drifting after a good 45 minutes of reading -- I tried quite a few different methods but what really worked for me was a good, solid reading of the material and using the outlines from upperclassmen to refresh the material on a daily basis ---
On a whim, I've reread certain sections of Robbins now with 5 years of clinical experience -- makes a whole lot more sense and what's important just jumps out at you --that truly didn't happen in MS2 ---
Dr. P is a challenge -- but he's very old school and knows what it takes to be a competent doc -- there's a standard and you will either meet it or you won't --
Look up the movie,"The Paper Chase" on Netflix -- it's an old one about a guy in law school -- you'll see elements of Dr. Dubin and Dr. Putthoff in the main character.
sorry -- gotta go