Survive & Thrive in College | What No One Tells You

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Our Premed Roadmap to Medical School Acceptance course covers everything you need to know as a premed: medschoolinsiders.com/all-courses/premed-roadmap-to-medical-school-acceptance/

[@denizenhugger9937]

Also if you’re just wanting to get through school just focus on getting enough to eat, 30 minute walk everyday(helps with bowel movements) and spending enough time studying itshould help you make it through.

[@denizenhugger9937]

I went through a lot of the same stuff. Gave up my social life in high school snd college used ineffective methods of study and made up through intensity. I would highly recommend for anyone for just looking to get through college or looking to do well at least have a baseline of how to use flashcards effectively with Anki and active recall and spaced repetition as baseline as this will allow any undergraduate program that requires a lot of memorizing to be a lot easier and with this you’ll have more time to yourself.

[@elevate5731]

I’m trying to get into active recall but I don’t know how. Can you give a step by step on how you study, just so I get an idea? Don’t be general, include every detail. Every video I’ve seen is so general it’s crazy.

[@denizenhugger9937]

@@elevate5731 step 1) if watching a lecture or reading froma book I turn every piece of information into a question and then rewrite the information in my own words where I understand it. This is the ACTIVE LEARNING PART. I basically thought about the information so much that I got a basic understanding of the informaton that 'm satisfied with. I also take any images fromthe textbook and screenshot it and put it into my word document since im typing it up. Step 2) active recall After I got all the information and basically made a bunch of questions about all the information I learned I then put it into a flashcard. I might put several questions in the same flashcard so I dont have to have so many. therefore multiple questions per flashcard. I basically copy and past it into anki. So the next day( day 2) since day 1 just recording the informaiton. On day 2 I learn go back into the flash card and I test myself constantly on the information and testing myself what i remember and make better note of what I dont know and research it as I go. So i basically go back and bold some words that stick out and hold the most importance while editing some of the information I made. So the reason its active recall on day 2 is because your active trying to remember the information your already learned Step 3 spaced repitition + active reacall) anki is quite perfect since it does the speaced part for you where it wil tell you when to review the material rather than yourself. But if making physical flash cards instead you can seperate the flash cards into seperate piles where one might be 1 day, 2 days, 5 ays, 10 day, 1 month, 1 year and so on, but it actually requires you tobe active on how you sort them. but again with anki when testing yourself you can study on your phone from your way to work or in the morning on the train or throughout the day. and this is where the bolded words and the revision cam in the day before. I icked the words that stood out to me and bolded them so when I look at my phone I only have to look at the bolded words to remind myself rather than have to read wverything again instead and lets just say i did forget soemthing then I go back and read the unbolded stuff too. Ps Too lazy to edit this stuff for grammatical errors. Also day 1: 2 hours of making questions and notes while watching 50 minute lecture day 2 2: 2 hours to study through the notes I made and make revisons and bolded words day 3 and beyond: using anki to go over information and again until the exam

[@BobSmith-pw4jz]

One piece of advice I have to make the transition more manageable is to, if possible, take a reduced course load for your 1st semester of 1st year. For example, my Uni had a max course load of 5 in Fall, and 5 in Winter. So you could instead do something like 3 in Fall (minimum # to still be considered "full-time"), and depending on how that went, you could do 3-5 in Winter. Then you could do whichever 1-4 courses you didn't yet take, hopefully online during the Spring term, or even push 1-2 courses to a later Spring term if possible (if they're just random electives or whatever, and not core/prerequisite courses). This makes the transition way more manageable, and can potentially save a lot of expense and/or hardship of having to retake classes that didn't go well during 1st semester. I really wish someone had given me this advice, lol. Also, if things aren't going well, contact Academic Advising (or whatever equivalent your school has) ASAP, and they can help you navigate things like deferred exams, dropping courses, withdrawing from courses, scheduling various things, etc. By the way, you should check out all your degree requirements, and various regulations and policies and stuff on your own, because there's a chance that Academic Advising might miss something and give incorrect/lacking advice (this happened to me multiple times 1st year -_-, so I learned to do most of it on my own). Best of luck!

[@tlgforever4208]

Can you plz do a video on neonatal surgery and fetal surgery? its so hard to find videos on both specialties

[@logannbonner-hudson1944]

Have y’all thought about focusing on other careers in healthcare where people can still have an impact on patients without as much schooling? Such as medical assistant, CNA, phlebotomy technician, pharmacy technician, surgical/scrub technician, etc? I think exploring that and informing people on the qualifications can open up a lot doors for some! (Just a thought lol)

[@etrenome6717]

Love your informative content

[@alicendagwatha139]

What kind of books do neurosurgeons read to gain the knowledge??

[@fyzikcs]

7. Get your information from a variety of sources

[@braxtonwalker5923]

Commenting for the algorithm

[@MedSchoolInsiders]

Thanks for watching!

[@braxtonwalker5923]

@MedSchoolInsiders No problem!

[@cherry-g9s]

thank you very useful.

[@buckeye5689]

Is there a good video for how to eat healthy in college?

[@MedSchoolInsiders]

We don't have a video on the topic but we have this guide on our blog: Student Guide: How to Save Time While Eating Healthy Meals - medschoolinsiders.com/pre-med/student-guide-save-time-eating-healthy/

[@Rainbowofthefallen]

Just commenting for the algorithm 💜💙

[@junexiii8474]

now i'm worried for college lol but I still have a long way to go

[@MichaelsMornings]

Do you review personal statements mate?

[@aboudisalam5855]

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