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Studying Parotid gland

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14.09.2020

I was upset today for some reason. I had no will to do anything at all this morning. I studied a bit in afternoon. I also did a HIIT workout today. I feel awful not being able to study as much I need to. Everyday just goes by.

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I need you to understand that taking a day off from studying is completely fine and even good for you. You know how you need to have rest days from working out to let your muscles repair themselves so you can keep getting better at what you do. Well, your brain needs rest as well so you can keep improving in your academic life. Rest is good and it shouldn't be seen as something unproductive and useless when it's very much needed and part of the learning process. The academic community needs to understand that taking days off is good for you.

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Dear anatomy...

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anyone else who starts their second semester on monday? i wanna throw up fml :’)

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Think about why you love your friends. What comes to mind first? It probably isn't things like "I love how they have a job" or "I love how they get good grades." Instead you might be thinking about their compassion, their sense of humor, their perspective, their passion, their values, their mindset/attitude or their intelligence. So don't let yourself or anyone else reduce your worth to your productivity alone. We're all far more than that!

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I'm being barely productive these days.

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Proving that studying is different for everyone:

You’ve heard all of these study tips at least once:

Rewriting notes

Rewrite your notes

Don’t rewrite your notes

Night studying

Revise before you go to sleep

Don’t study at all at night

Morning Studying

Always study in the morning

Never study in the morning

Where to study

Study on your desk

Study in the library, always

Study in the most comfortable spot

Breaks

Take short productive breaks

Take short fun breaks

Take longer productive breaks

Take longer fun breaks

Never take breaks during a study session

Snacks

Always have a snack on hand

Don’t ever have a snack, they’ll distract you

Snacks are only for breaks

Junk food motivates you

Eat only healthy foods when studying

Reward yourself with a piece of candy after each page

Music

Always listen to music

Never listen to music

Listen to a certain kind of music when studying for each subject

Listen to music with lyrics

Listen to music without lyrics

Time

One hour intervals

25 minute intervals

Sleep Schedule

Sleep early, wake up at a normal time

Wake up at 4 am always

All nighters or nothing!

Never pull all nighters

This goes to show that you have to find what works for you, every study tip you’ll ever find will contradict itself!!!

Feel free to add some of your own in the reblog :)

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Not-so-lazy Saturday afternoon. On today's menu: just the entirety of nephrology (and hypertension)

Really need to bury myself in my books...

If I studied harder earlier, I wouldn't have to go through entire fields/specialities per day to finish the topics in time, but oh well, let's work with what I have

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27/08/20, 9:30 pm

Kickstarted my day at 5 am. It felt great! I learnt protein metabolism and purine synthesis. I feel a little guilty for ignoring anatomy though. It's been a week I haven't studied anatomy.

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26/08/20

7:50 pm

Reading basics of cardiovascular physiology.

I don't like highlighter pens. I have only one and that's a gel textliner. And I'm pretty sure that's going to last an eternity.

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I just found my diary I used during pre med. It has still a lot of empty pages so I'm going to use it again for scheduling my tasks everyday!

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It's so true that it hurts 😔

in college there are only two moods:

1. i can do this! after outlining everything i need to do, it doesn’t seem so bad. in fact it’s very methodical and easy to follow and i can do it.

2. oh my god its happening. its the end for me. i might as well be dead. everything is due now. i was put on this earth to suffer. i have two essays due in 45 seconds and all ive eaten today is half a goldfish cracker. i can only feel pain

also these moods go back and forth every hour 

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a list of really badass biology terms

chromothripsis - a single “catastrophic event” that causes chromosomes to shatter and rearrange itself

kataegis - derived from the greek word for “thunderstorm”; describes a pattern of localized hypermutation in a cancer genome

cachexia - weakness or wasting away of the body due to chronic illness

telomere crisis - occurs in tumors when telomeres start fusing together in response to telomere depletion (due to cell replication)

anoikis - a form of programmed cell death as a result of the cell detaching from its surrounding matrix

cytokine storm - an uncontrollable mass release of pro-inflammatory cytokines by the body’s immune system, which in turn can activate even more immune cells

autoschizis - a form of cell death that causes the cell to “split open” due to cytoplasm loss

karyorrhexis - destructive fragmentation of a cell’s nucleus due to cell death

feel free to add more!! (and please do bc i love learning new things)