What is your study schedule like?

[mulberry]

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-What is your class schedule like, M-F?
-How do you study after classes? In other words do you goto the library immediately or go home and take a break?

List your study schedule for a typical weekday.

 

[oingoboingo]

Usually have class 8-3. Go home, lounge around, look over lectures while watching TV/cooking until 5:30. Dinner with husband and kids, family activities, then study from 8-10 at which point I pass out.

 

[pathologyDO]

Class/lab 8-5. Home and eat. 6-10 study. Wake, repeat.

 

[witzelsucht]

wake up hungover at 8. advil, coffee, poop, shower. class 9-12. one day a week is some small group afternoon bull****. after class make some food, do some "relaxation exercises" in my room for 10 minutes, then play on reddit til 2 or 3. spend an hour or two making/reviewing anki cards or relistening to stuff from lecture i didnt get.

dinner. more review after dinner if within 5 days of test, otherwise team fortress or reddit or read a book (not school). if close to test, anki and notes review from like 7-10. after 9-10 - drink until drunk or get high, play with self, and more video games. sleep.

 

[bjmo]

**** yeah.....

 

[bjmo]

wake up hungover at 8. advil, coffee, poop, shower. class 9-12. one day a week is some small group afternoon bull****. after class make some food, do some "relaxation exercises" in my room for 10 minutes, then play on reddit til 2 or 3. spend an hour or two making/reviewing anki cards or relistening to stuff from lecture i didnt get.

dinner. more review after dinner if within 5 days of test, otherwise team fortress or reddit or read a book (not school). if close to test, anki and notes review from like 7-10. after 9-10 - drink until drunk or get high, play with self, and more video games. sleep.

 

[Xeromancer]

Class from 8-12 Tuesday - Friday. Class from 8-5 Monday. Usually end up skipping some classes because I do not really pay attention during lecture for the most part anyhow.

After class I browse forums for a bit, watch a couple episodes of a tv show (currently is breaking bad), work out, and play some video games (pokemon is consuming me). This is usually when the wife gets home and I spend the rest of the night with her. Go to bed at 10:00 and wake up at 6:30 to eat, get ready, and read my daily dose of news.

Don't study any outside of class until a test is two days away. Get one pass through the material on the first day and another pass on the second day. Possible third pass on the second day if I am feeling motivated. Depending on the subject, I might throw in some practice questions.

 

[CassieBagley]

nothing

 

[yehhhboiii]

Don't study any outside of class until a test is two days away. Get one pass through the material on the first day and another pass on the second day. Possible third pass on the second day if I am feeling motivated. Depending on the subject, I might throw in some practice questions.

i don't see how that's possible

 

[fastlane]

i don't see how that's possible

You mean people can lie on the internet??

 

[HLxDrummer]

This year I am usually done at either 12:00 or 2:00 with the exception of random small groups/clinical stuff. Come home, get a snack, see my girlfriend and dog. Study until dinner. After dinner study until 9:00 most nights at which point I hang out with my girlfriend till we go to bed.

Throughout the day I will surf the web a little but no video games or real fun stuff. Every third friday we have tests so I have the following weekend "off". I usually do a few fun things and try to do a little studying for the boards.

I also am tagging a few topics in FC everyday and keeping up with those questions. Between everything I've mentioned I am passing all of my classes but not doing great. My stress level is reasonable, though, and I feel like I am really taking some of the stress off my back when step 1 gets closer.

 

[Unzbuzzled]

wake up hungover at 8. advil, coffee, poop, shower. class 9-12. one day a week is some small group afternoon bull****. after class make some food, do some "relaxation exercises" in my room for 10 minutes, then play on reddit til 2 or 3. spend an hour or two making/reviewing anki cards or relistening to stuff from lecture i didnt get.

dinner. more review after dinner if within 5 days of test, otherwise team fortress or reddit or read a book (not school). if close to test, anki and notes review from like 7-10. after 9-10 - drink until drunk or get high, play with self, and more video games. sleep.

👍

 

[Unzbuzzled]

I don't ever attend morning lecture because they aren't mandatory. I usually have required afternoon class stuff from 1-4. I play disc golf or video games until 6 when my wife gets home and then we watch netflix, make food, or otherwise do fun stuff. When she goes to bed around 10, I'll drink a cup of coffee and power through the days lectures on 1.5-2x speed, while writing brief notes (luckily all my lectures are recorded). If I'm studying path, I just watch pathoma videos instead and then skim through my path class notes for anything pathoma missed. This process is usually done by 1am or so. Then I look over what I just wrote and possibly check it over with FA/Pathoma if it's relevant. Then I go to bed around 3 because I don't have to be up til noon. About a week before exams (we get tested every three weeks), I continue doing the same thing, only I start a bit earlier and tack on a few hours of reviewing my notes. Then two days before the test I'll do practice questions and review anything I get wrong.

I consistently get Bs and worst case Cs. Sometimes As. I've only failed two exams since M1, and one of them I literally didn't study for because it wouldn't affect my letter grade no matter how I did. M1 year I studied all the time, but now that it's M2, I've realized that As don't make you happy. If anything, they stress you out more. You need to have fun to be happy, so study enough so you don't panic, and use the rest of your time to enjoy your youth while you still have it.

 

[Spikebd]

wake up hungover at 8. advil, coffee, poop, shower. class 9-12. one day a week is some small group afternoon bull****. after class make some food, do some "relaxation exercises" in my room for 10 minutes, then play on reddit til 2 or 3. spend an hour or two making/reviewing anki cards or relistening to stuff from lecture i didnt get.

dinner. more review after dinner if within 5 days of test, otherwise team fortress or reddit or read a book (not school). if close to test, anki and notes review from like 7-10. after 9-10 - drink until drunk or get high, play with self, and more video games. sleep.

My favorite sdn post in a long time!

 

[mulberry]

+1 for the troll post.

It did, however, show me the new world of Anki. I love this program!

 

[witzelsucht]

maybe im trolling maybe im not. but 1-2 hours of anki daily and 5+ hours leading up to a test can allow anyone to acquire an absurd amount of information if you are intelligent about the way you make the cards

 

[eefen]

^ +1

I've found that, as long as I keep up with my daily Anki cards and whatnot, the actual time that I spend before any particular test reviewing information tends to be less than my classmates. With Anki, I've already spent plenty of time studying the info - come test time, I generally just do a passive once-over all of my relevant notes or any sections that I marked to come back to and review (e.g. I didn't anki-fy them since they aren't important).

Regarding my study schedule...depends on the class. Earlier in the year during molecular cell bio and genetics/behavioral medicine, I would typically be at school from 8 am to 2-3 pm - sometimes less, sometimes more. I'd come home and get all of my crap done by 6-7 pm and spend the rest of the evening with my wife. Some nights I'd have to do a little more after she went to sleep.

Now, though, during anatomy, I've only got one or two hours of lecture a day. Usually. So that's nice. Go to lecture (I find it helpful), come home, study for a few hours, done.

 

[Xeromancer]

i don't see how that's possible

It might be because we have five exams per semester for each subject. For a subject like biochem that would mean about 15 hours worth of lecture to get through for an exam. First pass is slow and takes the whole day. Second pass only takes half the time the next day. Leaves plenty of time for an even quicker third pass or practice questions that evening. They are very full days, but I learn better that way than spreading it all out.

 

[mulberry]

It might be because we have five exams per semester for each subject. For a subject like biochem that would mean about 15 hours worth of lecture to get through for an exam. First pass is slow and takes the whole day. Second pass only takes half the time the next day. Leaves plenty of time for an even quicker third pass or practice questions that evening. They are very full days, but I learn better that way than spreading it all out.

I tried something similar to that (cramming) and believe me you will end up forgetting most of the material you learned for the exam when it's time to study for the Steps.