Studying after the class is over

[TexasSurgeon]

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Does anyone else find it difficult? I'm reviewing some science stuff from a course that just ended and its requiring so much motivation...I would rather just move on to the next semester's worth of material.

 

[Ismet]

Why would you do that? Enjoy your break from school. If you feel like you need to brush up on something before the next part of the sequence, review it in the couple weeks before the next semester, but whatever you "review" now is pretty fruitless.

 

[487806]

Does anyone else find it difficult? I'm reviewing some science stuff from a course that just ended and its requiring so much motivation...I would rather just move on to the next semester's worth of material.

It's a waste of time. Do something productive.

 

[Donald Juan]

Does anyone else find it difficult? I'm reviewing some science stuff from a course that just ended and its requiring so much motivation...I would rather just move on to the next semester's worth of material.

Wha..why...who does this? Why do you think you should do this?

 

[TexasSurgeon]

Why would you do that? Enjoy your break from school. If you feel like you need to brush up on something before the next part of the sequence, review it in the couple weeks before the next semester, but whatever you "review" now is pretty fruitless.

It's not really a sequence that's next semester, it's a totally different class. But I'm doing it because I fell behind during the last few weeks of school and I can't live with not having the knowledge I missed. It's just hard to stay motivated hahaha

 

[Ismet]

It's not really a sequence that's next semester, it's a totally different class. But I'm doing it because I fell behind during the last few weeks of school and I can't live with not having the knowledge I missed. It's just hard to stay motivated hahaha

Not sure if you're actually srs, but for goodness sakes, med school will kill you if you have this mentality.

Get over it and move on. It's hard to stay motivated because that's not what you're supposed to be doing, and I have never heard of anyone who actually does that.

 

[TexasSurgeon]

Not sure if you're actually srs, but for goodness sakes, med school will kill you if you have this mentality.

Okay I may have exaggerated a little. I just don't want to miss something for the MCAT, and if I have some time right now then wouldn't it make sense to do so?

 

[487806]

Okay I may have exaggerated a little. I just don't want to miss something for the MCAT, and if I have some time right now then wouldn't it make sense to do so?

No. It means you have nothing better to do and you're wasting your time.

 

[Ismet]

Okay I may have exaggerated a little. I just don't want to miss something for the MCAT, and if I have some time right now then wouldn't it make sense to do so?

Just study it when you start studying for the MCAT. Even if you study it now, it's not going to stay in your brain until you take the test. I could be learning the microbio that I didn't learn for Step 1 right now, but that would not be a good use of my time.

 

[I Love Cats]

I'm not even this neurotic, and I'm really neurotic. 😵

Please just relax, be happy, enjoy yourself and do some different activities.

 

[yehhhboiii]

It's not really a sequence that's next semester, it's a totally different class. But I'm doing it because I fell behind during the last few weeks of school and I can't live with not having the knowledge I missed. It's just hard to stay motivated hahaha

you do know that there is a universe of knowledge that you missed out there
good luck trying to get it all

 

[TexasSurgeon]

you do know that there is a universe of knowledge that you missed out there
good luck trying to get it all

No, I didn't miss that much overall.

 

[KinesiologyNerd]

you do know that there is a universe of knowledge that you missed out there
good luck trying to get it all

Ha I had a question in an interview on those lines. Something along the lines of "Medicine is so incredibly complex that you can't learn it all. How will you deal with that?" I think I would enjoy OP's answer.

 

[TexasSurgeon]

Ha I had a question in an interview on those lines. Something along the lines of "Medicine is so incredibly complex that you can't learn it all. How will you deal with that?" I think I would enjoy OP's answer.

My answer: Well if it happens that I end up not knowing something about medicine (as will most likely happen), it may result in hurting a patient or putting a patient in danger. There's no way one can predict every outcome in a doctor-patient scenario, and so I also agree that not everything can be learned in medicine. However, I would do my best at learning from the mistakes made, and keep an open mind at all times towards learning and criticism. Getting the knowledge is one thing, but each new encounter with a patient is a new and unpredictable one.

Did I do okay?

 

[nysegop]

Spend time with your family or strengthening your connection with Jesus Christ our savior.
Haha JK

But seriously, do something fun.

 

[TexasSurgeon]

Spend time with your family or strengthening your connection with Jesus Christ our savior.
Haha JK

But seriously, do something fun.

LOL
Made my day +1

 

[Donald Juan]

My answer: Well if it happens that I end up not knowing something about medicine (as will most likely happen), it may result in hurting a patient or putting a patient in danger. There's no way one can predict every outcome in a doctor-patient scenario, and so I also agree that not everything can be learned in medicine. However, I would do my best at learning from the mistakes made, and keep an open mind at all times towards learning and criticism. Getting the knowledge is one thing, but each new encounter with a patient is a new and unpredictable one.

Did I do okay? 🙂

It sounds like you don't understand the question.

Also, why are you wasting time here on a message board? You should really be studying.

 

[mcloaf]

Okay I may have exaggerated a little. I just don't want to miss something for the MCAT, and if I have some time right now then wouldn't it make sense to do so?

Have you tried beer? I find it helps at times like this.

 

[mehc012]

Does anyone else find it difficult? I'm reviewing some science stuff from a course that just ended and its requiring so much motivation...I would rather just move on to the next semester's worth of material.

I put in a couple hours of work making sure everything was in Anki, then left it at that...hopefully the cards will keep it in my mind a little bit as I move forward!

 

[TexasSurgeon]

I put in a couple hours of work making sure everything was in Anki, then left it at that...hopefully the cards will keep it in my mind a little bit as I move forward!

In Anki?



I'll take all of your advice on this forum. I just feel like I don't deserve to take a break or do something else since this wasn't my best year in terms of grades.

 

[mehc012]

In Anki?



I'll take all of your advice on this forum. I just feel like I don't deserve to take a break or do something else since this wasn't my best year in terms of grades.

It's a flashcard program based on spaced repetition. Once the cards are in, they'll keep popping up over longer and longer intervals (until they hit the max, which you can set) as long as you get them right. Get them wrong and you see them more often until you've learned them.

So yeah, I try to make flashcards of MCAT-relevant material and put it in Anki so that once class is over, I will be reminded of/hopefully retain those facts.

 

[TexasSurgeon]

It's a flashcard program based on spaced repetition. Once the cards are in, they'll keep popping up over longer and longer intervals (until they hit the max, which you can set) as long as you get them right. Get them wrong and you see them more often until you've learned them.

So yeah, I try to make flashcards of MCAT-relevant material and put it in Anki so that once class is over, I will be reminded of/hopefully retain those facts.

Oh, I see. Sounds cool!

 

[Redpancreas]

It's a waste of time. Do something productive.

I don't think it's necessarily a waste of time. I don't like sit and study the old class material linearly as I would for a class but I do something similar because of how I think. You see, like a lot of people here I think quite alot...so today when I was eating strawberries I remembered our biochem teacher saying how certain studies linked increased fructose (as opposed to glucose) consumptions to higher obesity/triglyceride lvls/VLDL etc. So after I was done eating I got on PubMed to try to find out why this was because he didn't tell us...just said the body wasn't used to fructose which I guess makes sense for a evo. medicine perspective. I didn't find a satisfying answer but I basically realized/recalled that the presence of fructose allows the bypassing an important regulatory step and thus is more quickly used in glycolysis and for whatever reason our body isn't used to this. While doing this I reviewed furanose/puranose structure, dehydration synthesis mechanism, glycolysis, PFK-1/2 (reciprocal regulation), glucagon, insulin, perilipin, pyruvate carboxylase, and several other things from biochem I took this past semester. I find this easy because I'm genuinely interested so it doesn't feel like I'm sitting and just forcing myself to relearn stuff. Sure...the Ph.D's have probably worked out this puzzle but I haven't. Reasoning through this is fun for me and I get a good review out of it. I recommend OP try this as well! Today it only took my 15-20 minutes.

 

[Benedictus123]

Memorize glycolysis and the Krebs cycle. It won't help you that much on the MCAT, but at least you'll be a boss if you ever come across it in a passage.

Memorize the Calvin cycle too. Like, memorize where every electron and atom goes from reaction to reaction.

 

[nysegop]

Quizlet > Anki IMO

 

[mehc012]

Quizlet > Anki IMO

To each their own
I like the versatility of Anki and the template system. It was a good program when I didn't know how to use it, and it's an amazing one now that I've worked out the details (which are admittedly not beginner-friendly, you have to use it for a while to really get the whole story).

Quizlet always seems kind of...cheesy? to me. I'm not sure how or why, but it never felt like MINE, it felt like I was taking a bad internet quiz.

 

[Doctor Strange]

In Anki?



I'll take all of your advice on this forum. I just feel like I don't deserve to take a break or do something else since this wasn't my best year in terms of grades.

Even the good students aren't this anal and neurotic. Trust me, I'm one of them.