Posted by alexandra_k on October 5, 2014, at 21:39:26
In reply to Re: tick tock, posted by alexandra_k on October 3, 2014, at 16:25:02
I think I'm starting to understand about books...
Have been trawling a few forums. Because i was starting to get demotivated. Listening to people talk about next year and years after. I need to remember that sometimes it is worth taking some time out to focus on where I want to be going. It helps me focus back on the present. Also helps prepare me for the future.
I found these youtube vids of this guy teaching organic chem at just the right level from the same textbook. Wow. invaluable. I can't wait for my molymodel kit to arrive. I will certainly work through those over the summer... He does a lot of problems in class, too, and I can pause the video and do them in real time. Drawing conformations etc.
I read quite a lot about textbooks... About how you need to find the ones that work best for you... About how you do that. I have come to the conclusion that the thing is that you outgrow them. You could start with a mega-detailed clinically oriented atlas... But it will probably seem overwhelming. You could start with the budget little atlas you can get for the Anatomy and Physiology textbook. See if you can kick that back in a week or two or three... Then try the next one... I guess ideally... You can go through ALL of them. I guess the same for medical physiology textbooks etc. Start with the 'easy' ones... Work your way up.
It does mean learning to make use of the library... And only buying ones I anticipate I'll get most mileage out of. I know I get a significant chunk of study done before the year starts. Over the summer. When everything is new and when it all seems fun and exciting and I can read for enjoyment at my own pace and focus on whatever I like for however long I like. But I can't teach myself the way that actual classes do. With their deadlines. Forcing yourself to get to class because there is a class. Forcing yourself to learn more than you ever thought you could simply because you have a test or whatever. I'm often surprised at just how different a topic or section seems in lecture compared to the book or the powerpoints, even. Different focuses... Remember different things... More reminders about the woods so I don't get lost in trees...
I have found a forum... I've been there before. Was how I met the chick I met up with for the interview at the other place. It is important for me to foster relationships... To get into good study groups with focused people who help me relax. I felt... Happy about the book discussion etc... People who like reading over the summer as much as me :)
Onto neuro and then muscular now... Done with the evolutionary. Happy for that. Have somehow or other mustered something to study it, though. Am happy I got Campbell's Bio because I will keep it. There are chunks on plants and archea etc that I would like to read one day... Have it as a reference... And some of the cell biology stuff is way cool for me. And at about the right level, yeah. The A&P book for next year... Will outgrow it by the end of next year, yeah. It is a lot like the Marieb one we had at tech... Only... I liked Marieb better, I think. Though Tortora is perhaps prettier for the cell biology. I don't know... Anyway... I expect I'll sell it on... I just... Got looking to textbooks and atlases... Thought maybe I'd invest in an atlas... Then saw that there was an atlas associated with Tortora so... Borrowed it from the library. I wonder how long it will take me to be able to do it?? I guess that is the idea... Cover up the labels (with a ruler or strip of paper) and just freaking well learn them...
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