I feel like I'm already super behind on everything. I'm a grad student at a top private research U, in a non-science field, talking 3 premed courses.
I'm taking Calc 3, Genetics, and Physiology. I was a pretty good student in HS and college (Ivy admit, near-perfect SAT, 3.6 college GPA from a top school). But I was not very organized. I had do a lot of all-nighters and to request extensions for papers, I was not good at taking notes either, so I mostly didn't and studied with textbooks and other people's notes mostly. I'm doing well with my studies know because it's a very narrow field, and the objectives are always clear.
I feel really confused about how to organize myself in order to do well in these classes. I had to switch Calc sections because I already missed 2 homework assignments. I literally forgot to do one of them, and I was in another class at the time of submitting the other one (it's a random, non-class time). I wish I knew exactly how much to study, what to study, how to study for these science classes but I don't. Every school I have attended until now was sort of "paternalistic." There was no way to fail things or fall behind because the faculty and administration were watching and helping you every step of the way. How to catch up, how to keep an effective schedule, how to be a successful student? If you were taking these classes how many hours a day/week would you study? How do you manage to stay on top of things? I'm asking myself things like:
If my Physiology prof posts slides of the lectures online, is it so we memorize everything that is in them? Sometimes there are 60 slides for one lecture, so does that seem like a normal amount of things to have to memorize for a college Physiology (300-) class?
Do people studying Calc do problems beyond the ones assigned, or can I trust that the ones assigned have given me a comprehensive exposure to the material I have to know for the final?
So confused.
Thanks!
I'm taking Calc 3, Genetics, and Physiology. I was a pretty good student in HS and college (Ivy admit, near-perfect SAT, 3.6 college GPA from a top school). But I was not very organized. I had do a lot of all-nighters and to request extensions for papers, I was not good at taking notes either, so I mostly didn't and studied with textbooks and other people's notes mostly. I'm doing well with my studies know because it's a very narrow field, and the objectives are always clear.
I feel really confused about how to organize myself in order to do well in these classes. I had to switch Calc sections because I already missed 2 homework assignments. I literally forgot to do one of them, and I was in another class at the time of submitting the other one (it's a random, non-class time). I wish I knew exactly how much to study, what to study, how to study for these science classes but I don't. Every school I have attended until now was sort of "paternalistic." There was no way to fail things or fall behind because the faculty and administration were watching and helping you every step of the way. How to catch up, how to keep an effective schedule, how to be a successful student? If you were taking these classes how many hours a day/week would you study? How do you manage to stay on top of things? I'm asking myself things like:
If my Physiology prof posts slides of the lectures online, is it so we memorize everything that is in them? Sometimes there are 60 slides for one lecture, so does that seem like a normal amount of things to have to memorize for a college Physiology (300-) class?
Do people studying Calc do problems beyond the ones assigned, or can I trust that the ones assigned have given me a comprehensive exposure to the material I have to know for the final?
So confused.
Thanks!
