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t-talking?!
BREAKING NEWS - I finally understood the tones in Mandarin !!!
I repeat - I GOT HOW TO PRONOUNCE AND DIFFERENCIATE THE MOTHERFUDGING TONES
Thanks to the explanations of the picture I’m putting here. So helpful.
I'm a 2nd year vet student and although I'm absolutely loving it and it's my passion, I'm scared that I'm investing so much and spending 6 (very hard) years to become a vet, only to get there and eventually fall out of love with the profession. I also find myself wondering if I'm really cut out for it - the financial, mental, and emotional strain. I think I'm just doubting myself, but idk. Did you have any doubts? How did you reassure yourself? Thanks so much, it's really really appreciated.
Hey Worrier, let me tell you a secret.
I’m 30 years old, went into vet straight out of high school, have worked for 7 years, moved interstate and back again and published a novel and I still have doubts.
I doubt and I worry and I second guess myself all the time. My default state is ‘worried about something’.
I always doubt my decisions, but the way I practice veterinary medicine is by gathering evidence that my treatment plan will work. I don’t really hope, I don’t have any blind faith, I function by accumulating evidence.
And evidence would suggest that I’m not making the worst calls in the world. Therefor I will continue to do so.
I think it’s normal to have doubts. I think it’s healthy. If you don’t stop occasionally to question what it is you’re doing, whether these things you believe are truly things you believe or whether they’re things other people have told you that you believe, then you might find yourself very far off track and not know how to get back to yourself.
If you’re feeling lost, I can tell you how I figured myself out, what parts of me were really me and what matters.
Take some pieces of paper, at least six. They don’t have to be big.
Write one or two words down on each piece, answering the following: I am __________
Look at them. Are they right? Is the word you’ve found the correct one for the feeling or concept you’re trying to get down?
When you’re done, when you’ve written down everything you think you are, look at them all.
Choose three. Throw the rest away.
The ones you threw away don’t matter. They might be nice, but they’re not you, not the heart of you.
Of the three you have left, pick one. That’s the vital one. That’s you. Put it somewhere safe, don’t lose it.
The two you have left are important, but you could lose both of them and still be you.
I know that if I can hold on to the one thing which is truly me, then the rest of the world can change around me and I still wont be lost. If I had to I could let veterinary medicine slide, so long as I still keep the way of thinking that it’s taught me.
Maybe I wouldn’t be cut out for it. Maybe I wont be in the future. But that doesn’t matter, because it’s not integral to my being or my existence. Veterinary medicine is just a think I am doing, and if I do it well, then so much the better. It might be a mighty, nearly all consuming thing, but it is just a thing and not part of me. I hope that makes sense.
Writing it down is what I did, many years ago. I hope it helps you too.
Thank you.
Just some of the revision that I did today! I'm feeling much better mentally so I wanted to take advantage of that.
Studying at my boyfriend's house while he plays DnD 😂
It’s 12:12am and I finally crawled into bed. I spent the afternoon at my boyfriends house in front of the fire watching lectures while he slept (he works as a baker in the early hours). And I got to cuddle his border collies! Win-win. Then I came home and had a nap (listening to my body), and got up and wrote notes! Ive got my first mid sem exam next week on Friday, so I’m freaking out but trying not to. I’ve put in the work. Now I just need to keep going and fix up the little things.
Stephen Hawking passed away on March 14th. 3.14. He is now infinite.
My joint pain is making focusing hard - hence why I’m posting this instead of working! But I know it’ll be okay, I just need to take it easy.
Buttered beans while studying malaria! I swear I’m not a health nut, we just had some left over from last night’s dinner 😂
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Hoe Tips: School and Studying
I’m currently in PA school with close to a 4.0 GPA, and with college and back to school starting up, I’m dropping some tips for y'all. A hoe gotta get bomb ass grades if ya want a bomb ass career and to be successful af. So let’s get it✨
1. Write out your notes. Have two notebooks: one for when you’re in class (this one can be messy) and one for at home (this one is the neater one, for color coding, formatting, and all that organizational jazz). Writing things out is proven to enhance memorization 7X more than just reading is.
2. Have a go-to format for your notes. Numbering, bullet points, whatever floats your boat.
3. Type out your notes. I use Google Drive, because it automatically saves all your shit, and you can access your notes via your Google account literally anywhere. Typing out your notes does the same thing writing them out does, as far as helping you review the material.
4. Use Quizlet. Quizlet is a free flashcard website/app that allows you to type in all of your flashcards and definitions, and gives you review options like matching, testing, flashcard mode, and more. This shit made me my high schools valedictorian, no lie.
5. Keep your old quizzes and tests. Often times, teachers will ask similar questions on finals.
6. For math-based subjects, always always always show your work in your notes. I try to explain each step for a math problem in the margins of my notes, and generalize how to do each problem at the end.
7. Do practice problems consistently.
8. For my college hoes: never take an 8 am class. You think you can do it because you did it for high school, but I promise you will regret it. If there’s no avoiding the 8 am lecture, bring coffee and skip any makeup/hair that day. Sleep is too important.
9. Make flashcards. The night before my exams, I like to try and fit everything I need to know for a specific chapter/topic onto one flashcard, in order to weed out main ideas.
10. For essays, easybib.com is amazing with free citations to avoid any plaigiarism or incorrect bibliographies.
11. Rent👏your👏textbooks👏. Unless your teacher specifically requires you BUY it, you likely won’t need the actual textbook. Buying access codes for the book online is hundreds of dollars cheaper.
12. If you do get your textbooks, a lot of them have chapter summaries at the end of each chapter. Be sure to write out/type out/review those summaries.
13. For science labs, if you are allowed, take pictures of any models or slides you need to know for your exams. Pretty much all labs won’t let you take pictures of cadavers or animal dissections, but plastic models and microscope slides should be fine.
14. If you have a question, ASK YOUR TEACHER. It is better to look stupid in class and get your clarification, than to look stupid when you get your exam back and actually have it count against your grade.
15. Do study groups. I have two nursing friends in some of the same classes as me, and we’d always meet up before exams to go over the material. We would bring dry erase markers and map out shit in empty classrooms, taking turns explaining shit to each other until we nailed it.
16. Try to teach the material. Like I said in #15, study groups are great for this. By teaching the material out loud, you are subconsciously reviewing it yourself. This is a HUGE help.
17. Take breaks. You cannot exhaust yourself and expect to still recall anything you learned.
18. I know everyone does this and there’s no avoiding it sometimes, but DO NOT CRAM. Gradual learning is most effective.
19. Have one day every week where you don’t do any schoolwork. You need time to reboot.
20. Use your phone’s calendar/task checklist app for all major assignments, due dates, exam dates, study plans, appointments, etc. Set reminders as needed.
21. Charge your phone in another room while studying. No distractions.
22. Rainymood.com is a free website that plays a 30 minute loop of rain sounds. It helps me focus like nothing else, especially in my loud ass household, and every time the loop stops and replays, I know to take a break between 30 minute study sessions.
23. Feel distracted at home when studying? Try studying in a library, cafe, or even at school. I find that going somewhere else to study actually forces me to pay attention to what I’m doing, for some reason.
24. Reward yourself for good grades. Buy yourself a slice of pizza or a new highlight, have a netflix marathon, go to a party, or take a nap. Whatever conveys a job well done, do it. It’ll make all that studying feel that much greater when it’s over, and you’ll have a goal to work towards.
25. Sit in the front of the classroom as often as possible. You’ll be forced to pay attention, be able to actually see the board, hear the instructor better, and you’re more likely to have your questions answered quickly because your teacher will actually see your hand go up.
26. Caffeinate. I prefer tea because it’s healthier, but coffee works too. Ya girl is NOT a morning person, but my morning tea at least helps me pay attention during earlier classes.
27. Keep all of your school shit organized, together, and labelled.
28. Do NOT skip a class just because you’re lazy or don’t feel like going. The temptation is real sometimes, but a hoes gonna be pissed when ya see your participation average decline.
29. This may just be a psychological thing, but I love to use the same colored/brand of pen for all of my notes/assignments/tests. It just makes everything seem more uniform, and I’m able to recall information better.
30. Trouble taking tests? For any multiple choice question, read the question and try to answer it first without reading any of the options. If your answer doesn’t match the options, then use process of elimination to find the best answer. For true/false questions, write out justifications for each answer (you can also do this for multiple choice). You’ll be acing your exams in no time.
31. Chewing gum during class/studying, and chewing that same flavor gum during the exam, has been scientifically proven to boost your memory recall.
32. Literally any time you have the opportunity to do extra credit, DO IT. Cherish that shit.
33. If you aren’t doing so hot in a particular class (literally any math class for me lol), schedule a private meeting with your professor and go over test questions you missed, or topics you didn’t get. If you know your professor is a flop, or can’t get an appointment, meet with a tutor or another professor of that same subject. Sometimes another voice can shed new light on a difficult topic.
34. For essays, readable.io critiques your writing for free based on readability, grade level, formality, tone, grammatical errors, etc. Seriously a life saver.
35. Also thesaurus.com is ya bff for fancier words/phrases to make your writing more eloquent
36. Always make an outline for every essay or project to organize what you want to say. This will keep you on track, and help you work around any quotes or sources in you writing to make sure your writing is hella organized.
That’s all I can think of for now, please please please feel free to add and share. Enjoy those 4.0’s, hoes💞
And so, the university is letting me resit my exams due to my undiagnosed illness (narcolepsy + chronic pain?). I'm taking it slow and trying not to overdo it, and hopefully I can pull my grades back up.
Exams are stressing me out. I've had about 10 hours sleep over 3 days. I keep getting exhausted but I can only sleep for an hour or two. My doctors think I have cfs (I usually sleep 12-14 hours/day), but my chronic pain just gets worse when I don't sleep. So I'm in a lot of pain right now. So I had some relaxation before bed last night, I coloured in and played with kinetic sand for an hour before bed. I have no idea how I'm going to get through this week, but YouTube videos about subjects I'm studying are really helping.
CFS is exhausting me. I'm struggling so much to keep up with uni, I fell asleep in my lecture yesterday and had to go home early. But, on the bright side, I got 93% on a calculus assignment and I get my new guide dog in training next week. So things aren't bad, just very difficult.
And so. After a very long hiatus here is another update on my studies! My doctors think I have chronic fatigue, so I'm only doing 3 subjects, not 4. But that's okay! I'm up at 7 today (an hour earlier) after 12 hours sleep, to get on top of a prac that I have today, so fingers crossed it goes well, since it's mostly pressure calculations!
I'm enjoying calculus so much, and biology is challenging as per usual, but I should be okay with it! I'm super happy with the assignment that I handed in yesterday for calc, and I receive a bio assignment on Friday so I'm preparing for that!
Veterinary Legend: A Pair of Sox
There are certain stories told around the campfire that transcend from whispered words to pure legend. There are also tales retold in the veterinary sphere, obscuring confidential client details of course, which seem unbelievable at first but certainly happened somewhere, some time.
This is one of them.
Once upon a time, a young family had a black and white cat named Sox. They had absolutely been planing to desex and microchip Sox, but life unfortunately got busy and Sox went missing before they could get this done.
After a week of searching, they very luckily found Sox at the pound. Sox was desexed and microchipped before being released, and they gladly took their cat home.
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