05/04/2020 - Week One

05/04/2020 - Week one

🍑Wed🍑 - What’s your favourite study snack?

I don't think that I have one since I am not a person to snack while studying. Usually, I eat a big meal after I finish a study session or I eat lunch in between. If I do snack, which rarely ever happens, I tend to gravitate towards fruits and nuts. Overall, I will eat small and natural foods and not really any snacks per se. Sounds like I am super healthy, but, as you know, appearances are deceptive 😅.

Lady Windermere’s Fan 

Oscar Wilde

You: villains monologue to allow the hero time and opportunity to escape

Me, an intellectual: villains monologue because it's free therapy and everyone needs a little catharsis every once in a while

How to cope with reading mind numbing content:

1) Google that shit. Take the topic at hand and run it through the web- I always check out a YouTube video before I read, just so I have that invaluable base- level understanding of the topic that academics neglect.

2) Find, and read, the introductory paragraphs and conclusion. Often, academics will put some general concluding statements in their introductions: jot these down in shorthand form before progressing, and update these fundamental points as you proceed.

3) Set yourself a 30 minute timer to read through the body of the piece. Don’t fall into the trap of reading word by word, and writing copious notes. When I’m on autopilot and reading about something boring, I find myself writing great swathes of notes, often with word for word copying. Avoid this at all costs!

4) When the timer finishes, take a fresh piece of paper and jot down the crux of the argument. If you’ve got thoughts and are feeling fancy, jot down your own opinions and deductions alongside it. This is definitely something I need to remind myself to do more often.

5) Don’t overdo it. Read what you can, make sure you’ve got a solid understanding of the key ideas and attend class. Remember at the tertiary level what so many of us forget- that classes are still intended for learning, and not the show grounds for academic posturing they sometimes appear to be. Not every topic is going to be Your Thing, and that’s ok. Make the effort to read and research, ask questions, but do not punish yourself.

When the whole world is quarantined, but you’re a med student and you have to study embryology.

Book is “The Developing Human” by Moore, Persaud. Picture is of a two-week-old human embryo.

one time a stranger on neopets years ago told me “school makes you think you have to be good at everything but sometimes it’s ok to just be good at one thing. even if it’s not something you get a grade for. they don’t grade you for being a good person” and tbh i still think about it little did i know all i needed this whole time was in glowing purple text and that icon of the goth fairy