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Morning study session

Goals:

Intercondylar Fossa

Patella

Review knee

Acetabulum

Pelvic inlet outlet

Review Spines

Spine oblique

Scoliosis

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How to create productivity

There are many posts that talks about how to produce creativity during quarantine. After a few weeks in quarantine, I have found some ways to help me be more productive and I thought I add some of my tips. Hopefully y’all would find one or two tips useful. Here we go!

Make your bed. Whether you’re a morning bird, night owl, or just a tired pigeon, like me, making the bed indicates that you are ready to take on whatever task and not roll back into bed. At the start of the quarantine, I would roll out of bed and to the bathroom. Then immediately turn on my laptop and iPad. I found myself going back in and rolling back into bed often. Now, I wake up every morning around 8AM and make my bed as I have done before the quarantine. I don’t roll around my bed during my productive time, just during my stretching time.

Get in and out of the jammies. At the start of quarantine, I received an email that we need to be in uniform during online class. I thought I was being smart for just wearing the scrub top and jammies bottom. It made me too comfortable and i started not paying attention to my lecture. It took me two weeks to realize that I should get out of my pajamas when I’m in class and studying. Whether you make one outfit your uniform or you choose a different outfit everyday, getting out of my pajamas somewhat trick my brain that I need to be working instead of watching YouTube and Netflix in bed. Binge-watching Mike Chen is my guilty pleasure.

Schedule. More than one year ago when I started my radiography program, my program director mentioned that from Monday to Friday 8AM to 5 PM, that’s his time. We should be studying and working hard during that time frame. I took that mindset into my quarantine schedule. I do wake up at 8 AM, so I tweaked the time a little to fit my quarantine life. I do study all 7 days, but not in large chunks of time. Monday to Friday from 9AM to 6PM is my weekday study time, but starting this Monday it’ll need to start at 730AM because class starts 2 hours earlier at 8AM. I think this is called the pomodoro technique, I’m not sure. Depending on the subject I either study for 45 minutes then take a 15 minute stretch break or I would study for 25 minutes and take a 5 minute stretch break. There are some classes I can breeze through the 45 minutes with no problems, but there are classes that takes a while for me. I also set a schedule for lunch, dinner, and a tea break. As for the weekends, I do 45 minutes of quick review in the morning. Setting a schedule helped me be more productive because I have a definite time slot / due date to accomplish the task.

Take a break. Don’t forget to take a break. There’s a saying, “When you stretch a rubber band too much, it will break.” I don’t mean to take the 5-15 minutes break from studying, but that’s also important. Do what you love, do what makes you feel good, do what inspire you, do what relaxes you. I recently bought a ukulele. It’s been really fun. I’m definitely not good enough to play a song fluently yet, but it’s been fun and I get to learn a new musical instrument. If you want to play video games for a few hours after your productive time or for the whole weekend, go for it! If you want to prepare one of the meals per day, go for it. You do what brings you joy.

That’s all for my quarantine tips. Hopefully you can find something useful from this. Let’s make the best of this quarantine.

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04.24.2020

Desk Update.

I bought a bigger screen as mirror display (...for now. Can someone tell me how to use it as a secondary display to the iPad Pro? Thank you in advance) because I’ve been spending more time at home on my desk studying. I do 98% of my studying with my iPad instead of MacBook Air 2013. It’s not perfect because it’s weird having two of the same screen. I am getting used to it. My eyes are not exhausted as quickly as when I was just using my iPad. I’m still playing around with GoodNotes, Kindles, YouTube, web searching, split screens, and tumblr. I find myself looking at the iPad occasionally instead of the monitor. It’ll take some time to get used to, but I do enjoy it so far.

I still have the roses from Valentine’s Day, so it’s been helping me remember the pre-quarantine days. I dried them by hanging them upside down for 6 weeks and they’re still going strong. The cold weather has gotten me a bit gloomy the past few days. I just miss the warm sunshine, blue sky, sunset at the piers. My date with the boyfriend consist of me cooking lunch and us driving to a parking lot by a park for a picnic in the car. No worries, we didn’t leave the car. We just sat there for about 30 minutes and return home. There’ll be changes that continues after post-quarantine. I am very hopeful that we will be able to fight the virus off.

Here’s a green floof that I made this afternoon. I saw/watched the recipe on YouTube. Dalgona coffee has been a hype lately. I made it twice, once by hand and the other with a hand mixer. It was definitely an arm work out if you whip it my hand. It took me about 13 minutes, but only 3 minutes wit the hand mixer. This is the matcha version, or as my mama calls it GUACANDMILK. I think it looks pretty okay, not too bad.

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04.12.2020

Today’s To-do list

Main Focus: Pathology- Additive or Subtractive, best medical image modalities, change in technical factors. 

Skeletal System Disorder

Respiratory System Disorders

Gastrointestinal Disorders

Hepatobiliary Disorders

I’m going to spend 6 hours studying pathology today. From 2:30 pm to 9:30 pm, with one hour dinner break. Keeping a time frame for studying helps me focus on the topics of the day. 

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2020.09.03

Tonight's studying vibe.

Instead of using a timer to count down the remaining time, I've been using music. It's less tense. This one is about 27 minutes, which gives me 3 minutes to wrap whatever I'm reviewing, reading, and revising.

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04.21.2020

TO DO LIST:

Two flip grid videos, does anyone else have video assignements?

Lab assignment for Long Bone and Bone Survey

Pathology homework #4

Finish up PowerPoint on Trauma

Some quizzes that’s due later next week. (Might do this today or tomorrow)

Just a little study break from my note revision. Going to finish revising my notes from today’s lecture before tackling my to do list. I add my pathology notes to my prior Anatomy and Physiology notes, then transfer them in pdf into my procedure notes. It seems tedious, but it’s faster than retyping everything over for two notebooks.

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Spring break is the best time to make review booklets

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04.17.20

Different type of productivity today

Cleaned the work/study space for more comfortable studying sessions. I ordered a monitor to connect to my iPad so I can have a bigger screen. I’m low key excited to study.

I’ve been binging Pick Up Limes’s videos on minimialism. This quarantine has made me realized how many items have been forgotten and left to be covered by dust. I donated 70% of my writing utensials, all but 1 pair of yarn needles, and all but 3 of my crochet hooks amongst my friend. We FaceTimed to decide how the items will be separated. Super happy that these items will have a new home and will be used and loved.

Any tips for someone who wants to start minimalism?