Chapter and verse
Three hours. Three solid hours of highlighting what I thought was the cardiovascular system chapter, making detailed notes in the margins, even drawing little arrows connecting co…
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Double duty reality check
Week one of officially working at the campus rec center while keeping up with anatomy and physiology is... a learning curve. Double duty reality check I thought I had time managem…
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Study hall session
Michelle texted this morning asking if I had any tricks for memorizing muscle groups, and before I knew it she was at my door with her anatomy textbook and a desperate look. Turns…
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Finally finding the rhythm
Jake wandered out of the bedroom this morning to find me camped on the living room floor with every anatomy book I own spread in a perfect circle around me. "Looks like a medical…
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The label maker intervention
Alex knocked on my door at 1pm with a box of file folders and that evil grin he gets when he's about to reorganize someone's entire life. Apparently watching me dig through paper…
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Window seats
Alex came over this afternoon to work on our anatomy study guide, but we got completely derailed by the drama unfolding outside our living room window. Window seats There's this c…
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Parallel processing
Sunday night reality check: Jake's got three engineering problem sets due tomorrow that he swears he started "plenty early" (translation: yesterday), and I'm knee-deep in cardiova…
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Down the rabbit hole
Started reading about stress responses for my pathophysiology review. Somehow ended up three chapters deep in a psychology textbook Jake left on the coffee table, completely fasci…
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Teaching moment
Floor covered in anatomy note cards again, but this time it's not just cramming. Teaching moment Been going through my old study materials and realizing how much this stuff actual…
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Down the rabbit hole
Started reading about illuminated manuscripts for my art history class this morning. Innocent enough, right? Just needed to understand the context for one assignment. Down the rab…
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Natural teacher
Spent the afternoon reorganizing all my nursing materials and had this weird moment of clarity. Natural teacher I was sorting through my anatomy flashcards when I realized how muc…
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System check
Spread all my anatomy notes across the living room floor this afternoon and had one of those moments where everything just clicked into place. System check Not the material - trus…
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Making it official
Spent the afternoon doing something I probably should have done months ago - actually organizing all my tutoring materials instead of just grabbing whatever notes I could find fiv…
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Color coded chaos
Whoever invented the color-coding study method deserves a medal. And possibly a straightjacket. My living room floor currently looks like a rainbow exploded, blue cards for medica…
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Scheduling dilemma
Three different people asked me this week if I could help them with anatomy review. Not the random "can you explain this one thing" but actual "can we set up regular study session…
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Ground zero study zone
Three exams in four days. My living room looks like a medical textbook exploded. Ground zero study zone I've claimed the entire floor space because somehow I think better when I c…
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Paper trail
Certificate came in the mail yesterday. Three months of anatomy diagrams, practice tests, and way too much caffeine, all folded into one official-looking piece of paper. Paper tra…
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Office hours by accident
Third time this week someone's slid into the chair across from me at Caribou and asked if I could help them with skeletal muscle insertions. Office hours by accident I'm starting…
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Accidental office hours
Apparently I've become the unofficial anatomy tutor at Caribou without actually trying. Accidental office hours Three different people have asked for help this week alone, all bec…
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Field notes from table seven
Been camped out at Caribou for three hours now with my anatomy book, but honestly the people-watching has been way more educational than anything about the skeletal system. Field…
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Accidental tutoring session
Headed to the rec center this afternoon to meet Carmen for our usual workout when I spotted this girl from my anatomy class looking completely defeated over her textbook. Sarah, I…
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Coffee shop theater
Trying to memorize the cardiovascular system at Franklin Street Coffee when the table next to me becomes my own personal soap opera. This girl is explaining to her friend why she…
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Philosophy majors in the wild
Sitting at Franklin Street Coffee trying to memorize the bones in the human foot when I become an accidental witness to the most pretentious conversation in Chapel Hill history. T…
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Method to the madness
Three weeks of banging my head against this anatomy textbook and tonight something finally clicked. Method to the madness I've been trying to memorize everything word-for-word lik…
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Mission partially accomplished
Three weeks of strategically timing my coffee runs to coincide with Jake's study sessions and today I finally did it. Actually walked up to his table and asked about the chem lab…
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Operation perfect study selfie = epic fail
Spent twenty minutes trying to take one decent photo of myself studying because Matt from my sociology class asked how my Tuesday was going and obviously I need photographic evide…
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Death by flashcards
Seventeen hours straight of studying and I'm pretty sure I can name every bone in the human body but I've forgotten how to form complete sentences. Death by flashcards My desk loo…
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