Study schmudy
Dec. 6th, 2009 03:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
squeefulfishI'm on study leave in advance of my finals (14th and 16th; if someone can explain the sense in sitting exams to determine if I'm a safe practitioner halfway through my clinical time, that'd be nifty) and despite not having left the house since Monday (oops) or having seen anyone outside family since, er, last Friday week (double oops) I'm in pretty good form.
Flicking through notes and having a real sense of knowledge about the subject. Sure, I can nerd for Ireland on my specialist topic, but I've never done as well in exams as I should. Partly because these days my natural writing environment is not in an exam hall with 400 other people, trying not to kill the person who took crisps in (CRISPS! In an EXAM!) but on my bed, crosslegged with laptop and a mug of coffee beside me. Partly cos I have trouble remembering my references. It's not that I don't know them - reading list for dissertation is 120+ items at this stage - but with remembering to write them down considering my hand is about 10 minutes behind where my brain is.
So tonight I spent 4 hours (ish, I had a bunch of movies on in the background) writing out quick notes on who said what and when. This is going to be flicked over daily until exams. No cramming of references for me! I've read a LOT over the last 3 years. Notes alone take up a full shelf, books another 3ish. I've never had this many books on a particular topic before. I'm terrified to look at what I've saved on laptop though. I get distracted easily and end up reading about links between sleep apnoea and pregnancy induced hypertension.
And I so want pre-eclampsia to come up. It hasn't come up ever, in either end of year or Schol, and it's too important not to examine us on it at some stage. Mostly I'm hoping it comes up so I can reference that silly study on oral intake of semen to prevent it. I promise not to then wonder about if another area of the GI tract would be better for absorption. Actually, no, it's funnier that way.
Starting to think that going straight into MSc would be a less than stellar idea though. My poor brane, it is over-stuffed already.
Flicking through notes and having a real sense of knowledge about the subject. Sure, I can nerd for Ireland on my specialist topic, but I've never done as well in exams as I should. Partly because these days my natural writing environment is not in an exam hall with 400 other people, trying not to kill the person who took crisps in (CRISPS! In an EXAM!) but on my bed, crosslegged with laptop and a mug of coffee beside me. Partly cos I have trouble remembering my references. It's not that I don't know them - reading list for dissertation is 120+ items at this stage - but with remembering to write them down considering my hand is about 10 minutes behind where my brain is.
So tonight I spent 4 hours (ish, I had a bunch of movies on in the background) writing out quick notes on who said what and when. This is going to be flicked over daily until exams. No cramming of references for me! I've read a LOT over the last 3 years. Notes alone take up a full shelf, books another 3ish. I've never had this many books on a particular topic before. I'm terrified to look at what I've saved on laptop though. I get distracted easily and end up reading about links between sleep apnoea and pregnancy induced hypertension.
And I so want pre-eclampsia to come up. It hasn't come up ever, in either end of year or Schol, and it's too important not to examine us on it at some stage. Mostly I'm hoping it comes up so I can reference that silly study on oral intake of semen to prevent it. I promise not to then wonder about if another area of the GI tract would be better for absorption. Actually, no, it's funnier that way.
Starting to think that going straight into MSc would be a less than stellar idea though. My poor brane, it is over-stuffed already.
