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Clara, 18, pre-nursing student Tracking #Cheerupanstudy

[imafuckingdoctor]

How I studied Anatomy & Physiology

Anatomy:

I’ve said it before & I’ll say it again, Netter is one of a kind guys. It has helped me so much.

There’s also an app I used to have on my iphone, I think it was called essential skeleton. Any app/program would do, I especially love the virtual dissection tool because it helped me understand different layers so much better.

It can get a little overwhelming with the details but there’s usually a “clinical anatomy” or “applied anatomy” part in the end of every chapter, I prioritized that over everything else because of its clinical relevance and this has not only helped me in my rotations this year but also MCQs in academic usually target this area so .. you’re welcome hahah.

The lab is your best friend here, take advantage of every minute you have in there. Understanding is key so for example if I didn’t fully understand the action of a muscle, I’d pull the tendon & see what it does with my own eyes, what I’m saying is I never left the lab without understanding everything because anatomy isn’t one of those things you can just memorize.

If your school provides a pre lab learning guide use that, if it doesn’t make your own. Just don’t go into the lab not knowing anything because you will struggle, whereas if you go prepared it’s gonna help you out a ton, you’ll consolidate everything you know & basically be good to go.

So here’s what I did to learn an anatomy lecture: Before the class I’d read what we’re studying from Snell’s, then I’d take notes, attend the lecture, go home, go over everything from Netter & my apps (I considered that my pre lab work) and then the next day I’d go into the lab & sort of explain whatever we’re learning either to myself or to my partner. Et voilà, we’re done.

Physiology

This wasn’t really my forte, but here goes nothing.

As for physiology I found that textbooks don’t do it for me.

So what I would do before class to prepare is watch as many YouTube videos from different sources about whatever we’re studying. I could link all my favorite YouTube channels if you’re interested?

Then in class I’d pay FULL UNDIVIDED attention (physiology needs more concentration imo)

Then I’d get home and go through the material my school provides, I didn’t even make my own notes in physiology because it was ridiculously time consuming & I needed visual illustrations. Reading it was like passive studying, I couldn’t learn anything no matter how many times I read it.

But the one thing that I found helped me the most in physiology is answering a shit ton of MCQs, that’s the only way I could properly learn.

So my strategy for physiology was basically pay full attention in class & do a lot of practice questions rather than spend hours memorizing everything from a textbook.

For the anon who wanted this that’s pretty much everything I did regarding these two. Hope you found it helpful!

[flowerais-deactivated20211031]

You’re healing every time you

get out of bed because there’s something you’re excited about.

don’t think about people who left.

clean the clutter in the room and dishes in your sink.

smile at yourself and random people.

do something kind and out of the blue to make someone happy.

work out or meet with friends even though you have no energy to.

calm yourself down when your thoughts race.

remember to drink water.

don’t dwell on things you can’t control.

do things good for yourself, even though you have no motivation.

tell yourself that you’re growing from this, and you won’t feel like this forever.

[endlessstudyblr]

Im writing this because I don’t think people tell you how hard uni actually is

Miles from your mum, grandma, boyfriend and uncle

Best friend is elsewhere making other plans with new people

You take the back burner

The work is piling up and all you want is a good nights sleep but that won’t come

Praying to go home or to turn back time, back to when life was simpler

When life wasn’t so alone

Your heart rate increases by ten from the stress of not understanding a subject you used to be good at and having no money in your account to but food yet still debating buying train tickets or clothing just to inject a ray of light into the darkness

[starsandaspirations]

Dear Tumblr,

i’ve had many math teachers throughout my educational career, and the number will only increase. i’ve been in a wide variety of classes, seen the subject presented to me in a multitude of ways. some classes were online, where i watched lecture after lecture. some were discussion-based.  i’ve had teachers who copied off the textbook - one took pictures of the textbook and called it notes - and i’ve had teachers who taught anything but the relevant content, and complained when we took the tests. i’ve had teachers whose monotonous drone filled the classroom every morning, and teachers who recited the grading rubric before the start of every lesson like an invocation. i’ve even had one teacher who handed out math problems to punish students who were “misbehaving” or not doing their work.

trust me, it’s tragic. no wonder so many students hate mathematics.

i love math because i had one teacher that was good. that year, i worked so hard. i wanted to learn and understand the subject i had previously hated. he saw me, and he helped me. when i wanted to learn more, he showed me how to do a problem in one, two, three, four, five ways. i’d ask him questions and he would always respond. i attended school specifically for that class, and i began to see tests as a challenge. i spent hours doing every problem in the textbook, graphing every sinusoid and tangent i could find. i wanted to do well, and when i left, i think i succeeded.

once, i asked him why. there’s so many subjects, why did he choose math? he said that it wasn’t his first choice, but he grew to like it. i don’t have the class anymore, but i still treat math the same as i did then. i want to be as good as him. he asked me how my year is going, how is ap bio and ap calc and ap stats and human anatomy. i said that my grades were okay. he asked me if i was stressed over my classes, and said that it was okay to take a break.

when i say thank you, i mean thank you for everything - for helping me grow, for looking past my gpa, for all the times he took 15 minutes to show me the solution to a problem that would never come out on a test, simply because i was interested.

i may delete this later, but i hope that one day, all of you will meet someone who shows you how beautiful a subject you hate can be. and i hope that you realize that as human beings, you can grow and improve and get better.

[emmastudies]

me: able to read a book in a day

also me: unable to read 10 pages for a college class

[ibastudyblr]

Working on an essay or a paper? Looking for feedback, help or editing support but have no idea where to turn for unbiased, constructive criticism and professional advice? Here are some great resources to help get you going!

General 

Harvard’s Strategies for Essay Writing

Queen’s University Online Thesis Manager

How To Write A Great Essay About Anything 

How to Write Dazzlingly Brilliant Essays: Sharp Advice for Ambitious Students

University of Cambridge - How to Write a Paper

Purdue OWL: Writing a Research Paper

Microsoft Research -  How to write a great research paper

Georgetown University - How to Write a Research Paper

University of South California -  Organizing Your Social Sciences Research Paper: Guide

Abstract Writing

Berkeley - HOW TO WRITE AN ABSTRACT: Tips and Samples   

Purdue OWL - Writing Report Abstracts

University of Toronto - The Abstract

How to write a good abstract for a scientific paper or conference presentation

Introductions and Conclusions

Columbia University - Writing a Good Introduction 

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Introductions

Birmingham City University - Writing Introductions

University of Toronto - Introductions and Conclusions

Purdue OWL - Writing a Developed and Detailed Conclusion

Harvard - Ending the Essay: Conclusions

Editing

Paper Rater

Ginger’s Essay Checker

Hemingway Editor

ProWritingAid

editMinion

After the Deadline

Slick Write

Grammarly

GrammarBase

Citation

Citation Machine

BibMe

EasyBib

RefMe: APA

RefMe: MLA

Cite This For Me

University of South California - Citation Guide

[elleandhermione]

fall study moods

sweaters: droopy eyes in the library, hands wrapped around a warm mug, laughing with friends in between classes, pens almost out of ink

changing leaves: studying in bed, thin slanted handwriting, rain pattering on windows, slouchy clothes and glasses, local bookstores

tea: early alarms, pencil pouch bursting at the seams, exponentially long to do lists, unassigned assigned first row seat, tapping fingers

pumpkin patch: bullet journal entries in delicate cursive, woolen coats, book pages worn soft from use, asking questions after class

halloween: assigned reading becoming a new favorite book, getting to class just barely on time, on a first name basis with every barista

bonfire: indecipherable in class notes, maroon everything, intricate diagrams, the clinking of a spoon in a mug, a love for graph paper

flannel: chipped nail polish, spiral notebooks, notes in the margins, shaking off an umbrella, classes with teachers who love their subject

candy apple: notes festooned with post its and washi tape, a busy schedule, black hair ties that turn up seemingly everywhere, overflowing bookshelves

[thelanguagecommunity]

I’ve developed this “language maintenance” challenge for languages I’ve neglected in my own studies but still wish to practice. It consists of a variety of activities, designed to not be intrusive in daily life but keep you thinking about your TL. It’s also designed to broad and fit a wide variety of situations including heritage languages, intermediate-level languages, languages that you’ve finished a course and don’t know what’s next, or languages that you’ve otherwise put on the back-burner. Hopefully, someone out there will find it useful! If you need help finding a resource to complete one of these activities, let me know! If you make any posts relating to this, please use #upkeepchallenge so I can see it :D 

Write down all of the reasons why you want to learn your target language, or why you want to make sure you maintain it. Think about them, then stick this list into your notebook.

Write out an introduction. If you met a native speaker right now, what would you say? Your name, your interests, where you’re from?

Listen to a video. Try to follow what’s going on, but mostly let it wash over you, listen to the sounds. You can go through my sample playlists for a starting point.

Go into wherever you keep your resources, whether a folder on your computer, a tag on Tumblr or a physical textbook. Open to a random page and try to translate the first sentence you see in your target language. Try to do it on your own without resources, before checking with a dictionary or grammar book. How did you do?

Pick a random verb and write out by hand all of the conjugations you know of for that verb. In other words, write the same sentence over and over again but with different conjugations. Ex: eu sou Americana, tu és Americano, ele é americano, nós somos Americanos… etc. I have some mini-printables for this!

Watch a show/youtube video meant for children in your target language.

Make a vocabulary list for your major/favorite subject/job.

Create a set of flashcards that you can carry around with you. This can be done either digitally (tinycards or quizlet apps on your phone) or physically (cut down index cards to size.) Include vocab from a variety of sources if you can.

Put together a playlist of ONLY 20 songs. Evaluate them and rank them. It might take several listens (that’s the point!)

Look for magazines in your target language. Read (or skim) at least one.

Learn some filler words or sounds and practice speaking with them in a natural cadence/rhythm.

Go back to your playlist (Day 9) and learn the entire lyrics to one of your favorite songs. Practice until you can sing it acapella. 

Whip out your set of flashcards (Day 8) and set a goal for the number of cards memorized by the end of the day. For example, “I’m going to have at least ¾ths of my cards in the ‘know’ pile by 10pm tonight.”

Have a full conversation with yourself in the mirror today. Imagine you just met yourself in a cafe or a class and just make small talk. Use your introduction from earlier (Day 2)!  

Listen to radio in your target language as you do some chores.

Look for a discord group, forum, or other community of people who are learning/speaking your target language. Post at least one thing. Even if you’re shy, ask a question or just introduce yourself then bounce!

Watch a movie in your target language. 

Do a little research about into the folklore of the culture of your language. Pick one creature/location/story and try to see if you can find any info about it in your target language. An easy way to do this is to find the wikipedia page in your native language and then click on the equivalent article in your target language (it’s on the left side).

Find a passage in your target language that interests you, then record yourself saying it. Evaluate it yourself or post it on langblr or /r/JudgeMyAccent for feedback. What are the elements you got down? What can you improve on?

Use IPA to sharpen your pronunciation. If necessary, record yourself speaking first to pinpoint what sounds off. Focus on sounds that aren’t found in your native language. Practice in front of a mirror and exaggerate them. 

What is your favorite aspect of the culture of your target language (ex: food, dance, traditions, festivals)? Find a youtube video or mini-documentary about it. And try to find it in your target language!

Pick something in your room and talk about it. Be as specific as possible in describing it and how you feel about it. Use a dictionary without shame.

Find a poem you like and copy it into your notebook.

Write up a quiz complete with answer key. Think carefully about the things you think are important for you to know from your target language. Use your textbook or online resources as a guide, but try to make up your own questions too. These can range from conjugating verbs to translating sentences to matching vocab to short answer questions.

Translate the poem (Day 23) and try to keep as much of the poetic language as possible. 

What do you have strong opinions about? Politics? Media? Relationship drama? Outline an essay about this topic, complete with thesis and supporting points. Use a dictionary without shame. The goal here is to think deeply in your target language, not criticize your grammar!

Watch one Oscar-nominated or otherwise critically acclaimed movie in your target language. You can go through my letterboxd lists for a place to start.

Take the quiz that you wrote (Day 24). Grade yourself with brutal honesty to identify the areas you are weak in.

What did you find is your biggest difficulty so far? Today is the day to work on that! Pull up your textbook, look back on your notes, or ask some native speakers online. There’s no shame in asking questions! Act as if you are studying for a test and you just have to understand this one particular point. No more putting it off!

Make a post with everything you’ve learn this month (include all your new vocabulary and grammar points). Reflect on and celebrate your progress! What media did you consume? What resources did you use? What was the most helpful? What were your challenges?

Take a break!

[galaxy-girl-studies]

A Studyblr Intro!

(ooh look a super rushed header thing)

Hey! I’m Eliza, and after what seems like a lifetime of lurking about in the studyblr community, I’ve decided to join! Mostly, this blog will be to motivate me, but it would be cool to maybe get to know some other studyblrs too.

Stuff About Me

-14 years old

-freshman in high school

-she/her pronouns

-Canadian

-Sagittarius

-introvert

-currently taking visual arts, English, science, and French

-don’t really know what i want to do in life, but i mean i’ll figure it out

-hobbies include reading (YA novels mostly), watching TV (B99, The Good Place, Arrowverse, etc.), knitting, sleeping, and petting cats

-i have one cat, named Kacey, who turns 5 next month

Stuff I’ll Post

-probably some cool reblogged stuff

-daily stuff-i-did lists (accomplishments)

-motivation

-honestly, i don’t know yet. we’ll see what comes out of this.

Studyblrs That Inspire Me

Ooh there’s so many. But to name a few-

@studylustre @athenastudying @anxiousstudying @adelinestudiess @londonotes @studying-lesbian @organized-studying @obsidianstudy @sleepytea-studies @smilestudy @hannybstudies @tbhstudying @hufflepuffwannabe @emmastudies @dungeonstudy

If anyone has any tips on studyblr-ing, they would be greatly appreciated! I’m sort of definitely an amateur on running a studyblr. Thanks y’all!!!

[staplednotes]

Studyblr Culture: How the Internet Changes Students' Perception on Studying

This survey aims to understand how the Studyblr community influences its members' perception on studying through the participation of and interaction with its members within the community.

Studyblr Culture: How the Internet Changes Students’ Perception on Studying

Hello everyone! My name is Sarabel and I’m a student in BA Creative Writing. In one of my GE subjects (English 13: Writing as Thinking), we’re asked to write a paper about how technology changes people, their way of life, methods, etc. Afterwards, we have to write a summarized version of it to submit to the Digital Disruption Asia-Pacific Writing Competition 2018 hosted by The New York Times.

For my paper, I’ll be writing about Studyblr. But since there hasn’t been much research about it, I will be conducting a survey to gather the data I need. It will be a tremendous help to me if you can spare a few minutes of your time to answer it. You only need to be a current student (high school, college, or graduate) and have an active studyblr to be qualified to participate in the survey.

The survey will ask about your study habits and methods before and after studyblr, your post-making process, the people you’ve interacted with in the community, your general views on Studyblr, and some basic socio-demographic questions.

Answer Survey

If you don’t have the time to answer, please at least reblog this post to help me gather more respondents. Thank you!

If you have any questions, feel free to dm me or send me an e-mail @ [email protected]

Support in another way

[crescentstudies-deactivated2022]

HEY this is a reminder that failing tests and missing classes are okay. And that unfinished journals and planners are okay. Cheap stationery, messy notes, they’re all okay. Don’t stress about these stuff too much.

[carmdesiree]

Cat naps 😍

[cheerupanstudy-blog]

[10•01•18] Starting October with Glycolysis and Krebs Cycle ☕️🍂

[apbiohelp]

Cellular respiration

Cells need to turn all energy into ATP to be used.

Glycolysis is the first stage of cellular respiration and occurs in every organism

It takes place in the cytoplasm so there is no need for organelles

It produces a small amount of ATP, perfect for small prokaryotes

It produces 2 pyruvate molecule for every glucose molecule it breaks down, and pyruvate is broken down in the Krebs cycle

Does not require oxygen so it can take place without it (Which makes this an anaerobic process)

Glycolysis is simply the breaking down of glucose into two pyruvate molecules, two molecules called NADH (used to power more ATP production) [Note: NADH comes from NAD+ pairing with electrons and 1 hydrogen atom], and a small amount of ATP. 

Note: glycolysis needs the investment of two ATP’s to work and in the end generates 4 ATP’s (exact numbers are not necessary for the AP exam so I will not include them unless to further explain a phenomena such as this) 

IF no oxygen is present in the cell after glycolysis the process that follows will be fermentation, where pyruvates are used but the NAD+ is further used to power glycolysis. Examples of the byproducts of fermentation are: in yeast, ethyl alcohol (which is the same alcohol that humans drink). In human muscles the by-product is Lactic acid (which is what makes muscles feel sore) 

If Oxygen is present both the krebs cycle and the electron transport chain can take place because they are aerobic processes.

The krebs cycle: [can also be called the citric acid cycle]

takes place in the inner membrane of the mitochondria 

takes pyruvate molecules and turns them into another 2 ATP per glucose molecule 

Also creates 2 more molecules of NADH

Step 1: one of the pyruvates is oxadised (combined with oxygen and is released as CO2) What is left is a two carbon complex called Acytl coenzyme A (Acytl-coA)

Note: enzymes are essential in this process because it brings together the things that need to react, like The ADP and phospate to form ATP, and helps the acetl coA bond with oxaloacetic acid [to form citric acid] in the second step of the krebs cycle.

Energy released when the CO2 breaks off the cytric acid cycle as a byproduct some energy is released, but not in the form of ATP. Instead, FAD and NAD+ (both sorta B vitamins) and are good at snatching up loose electrons and storing the energy until it can be used in the electron transport chain. [Note: they both pick up hydrogen as well as the energy so they become NADH and FADH2] {each pyruvate molecule yeilds 3NADH’s and 1 FADH2} (not that it even really matters)

The whole purpose of the Krebs cycles is to make NADH and FADH2 to power the electron transport chain, where most of the ATP is synthesized (it ideally creates 34 ATP’s)

Oxidative phosphorilation (The electron transport chain)

The electrons provide the energy to work as a pump along the chain of transport proteins across the inner membrane of the mitochondria where the krebs cycle occured. This pulls hydrogen ions from the inner membrane of the mitochondria to the outer compartment of the mitochondria. This creates a proton gradient. Now, all of the protons want back into the inner membrane because there were already more protons on the outside. All the protons are let back into the inner membrane through a protein called ATP synthase. The energy of the proton flow allows this spinning protein that squishes ADP and phosphate together to create ATP.  

[premedprobz-deactivated20201220]

6:47pm// First half of my MCAT Cellular Respiration notes for the day ☺️🔬 Is me posting pictures of my daily note taking something you all would be interested in? Do let me know!

[sopebar]

Cell Respiration: Glycolysis, Pyruvate Processing, and The Citric Acid Cycle

glycolysis is the first of a set of series of reactions that oxidizes glucose in cellular respiration. it occurs in the cytoplasm of the cell.

start with glucose.

1. phase 1 of glycolysis begins. one molecule ATP is used, dephosphorylated to ADP and Pi. glucose changes into glucose-6-phosphate.

2. glucose-6-phosphate becomes fructose-6-phosphate (5-carbon sugar instead of 6-carbon sugar)

3. one molecule ATP is used, dephosphorylated to ADP and Pi. allosteric inhibition via ATP binding to enzyme phosphofructokinase when ATP levels are too high (feedback inhibition). phosphofructokinase catalyzes change of fructose-6-phosphate to fructose-1,6-biphoshphate.

4 and 5. fructose-1,6-biphosphate splits into two molecules: dihydroxyacetone phosphate and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate. 

6. phase 2 of glycolysis begins. two molecules NAD+ are reduced to become NADH. two glyceraldehyde-3-phosphates become two 1,3-biphosphoglycerates. 

7. two molecules ADP are phosphorylated to two molecules ATP. this is energy payoff of two ATP molecules used in phase 1. the two 1,3-biphosphoglycerates become two 3-phosphoglycerates.

8. two 3-phosphoglycerates become two 2-phosphoglycerates.

9. two 2-phosphoglycerates become two molecules phosphoenolpyruvate.

10. two molecules ADP are phosphorylated to two molecules ADP. two molecules phosphoenolpyruvate are dephosphorylated to two molecules pyruvate.

end product of glycolysis: 2 NADH, 2 ATP, 2 pyruvate.

pyruvate moves from cytoplasm into mitochondrial matrix.

it loses a carbon via carbon dioxide, is oxidized when an NAD+ is reduced to NADH, and reacts with coenzyme A to form acetyl CoA.

citric acid cycle takes place in mitochondrial matrix and is the final set of reactions of glucose oxidation. cycle revolves twice for each molecule of glucose.

start with acetyl CoA.

1. input of water. allosteric regulation via ATP which inhibits acetyl CoA becoming citrate when ATP levels are too high. 

2. citrate becomes isocitrate.

3. NAD+ reduced to NADH. loss of a carbon via carbon dioxide. isocitrate becomes alpha-ketoglutarate. allosteric inhibition via ATP when ATP levels are too high; competitive inhibition via NADH when NADH levels are too high.

4. NAD+ reduced to NADH. loss of a carbon via carbon dioxide. alpha-ketoglutarate becomes succinyl-CoA. allosteric inhibition via ATP when ATP levels are too high; competitive inhibition via NADH when NADH levels are too high.

5. ADP is phosphorylated to become ATP (or GTP to GDP). succinyl-CoA becomes succinate.

6. FAD+ is reduced to FADH2. succinate becomes fumarate.

7. input of water. fumarate becomes malate.

8. NAD+ is reduced to NADH. malate becomes oxaloacetate and one rotation of the citric acid cycle is finished.

[evergrace]

i want to erase the stigma that studyblrs do not struggle in school.

i want to erase the stigma that studyblrs have no mental or physical illnesses or disabilities.

i want to erase the stigma that studyblrs are perfect.