Missionary Orthopod in the Making

So I start school tomorrow and it is truly an exciting/scary prospect. Its wierd, because I’ve worked and prayed for this for so long, and now its here. My time on the wards was a good experience, and if anything, it allowed me to bond with my fellow classmates. I got to present a patient in the cadiac PICU, which was really cool and exciting, but besides that, it was basically more monotonous rounding.

So we had our 2nd orientation on Friday where we got our anatomy lab locker keys, our microscopes, our lecture notes for the 1st term, and more general school rules. I figured out a way to record the audio of our lectures directly onto my PDA, and so my plan was to send my phone with my wife so that she could record the lectures for me while I stayed home and read what I thought was important. It seemed like a good deal because they upload the PowerPoint’s onto Blackboard and they give us the lecture notes, so with the lecture audio recordings, the triangle would be complete. Even though its a pretty good idea, I think that I’m going to play it safe and get into a really good regimen. What was suggested was that I wake up early and preview the information in the lecture notes that the teacher would lecture on that day, then I would go to lecture already knowing what concepts that I didn’t understand and see what the teacher stressed or didn’t stress, then I would eat lunch, come home and study for like 4 hours everything that I learned for the day. This way I get the information 3 times, and hopefully it sticks. I’ll still record the lectures in case I fall asleep but hopefully this works. I’ll try it for the 1st quarter, and if it doesn’t work, then I’ll switch to my no lecture attendance regimen. In terms of studying, I’m armed with the following:

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I’ll probably start my day off at 5 a.m., so that in the morning I can wake up, have devotion, eat breakfast, preview for the day’s lecture, and groom myself. Some days I’ll be done class at 12 and some days I won’t be done until 4 p.m., but either way I want to study for at least 4 hours after lecture, review all the information presented for the day and making sure that I understand it. I heard that getting a tutor is a good idea, if anything if it was just to know what to expect on the test, but I’ll wait until I can figure out which class will be crazy to me.

Anyway, that’s my life for now. I’ll post later.