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alaskayoung's study log
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20-08-2014 11:40pm#1So, after an interesting (cries) LC year last year, I've made the tough decision to return to school and give this thing another shot. Holidays finish in less than 2 weeks so I guess it's time to come out of denial and start planning for this next year. I have a lot of things I need to change from last year, a lot of regrets, but what's done is done so onwards and upwards!
Aiming to begin studying medicine this time next year so I need to put in a lot of work over these next 9 months. If there's one thing I can say about going through this whole process these past few weeks is that it's made me realize how much I want it and that if you want something, you have to work to achieve it. Every cloud has a silver lining yanno? :P
After last year, the most important thing I now realize is that it's so important to remain positive. I feel like my lack of belief in myself is primarily to blame for my disappointing results last year. In the final few months I basically gave up. I thought that my goals were so high that I didn't have a hope of attaining them and what the point was in even trying. It turned out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts and now here I am!
Sooo, after a lot of soul-searching, I'm going back to school and ready to put 100% into this next year. If I don't get my number 1 choice at the end of it all, I'll be okay with that. I just need to know that I've given it my all and after that I can deal with whatever the outcome is.
I'm going to try and post here as much as possible over this next year. Really think it'll be helpful with keeping on top of things and setting goals. We shall see though! I'm very much aware of the huge wave of good intentions at the beginning of LC year
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First week done
Really weird being in a new school but starting to get used to it. I'm going to evening study this year for 3 hours each night which although is pretty tough, I think it'll really help as I have poor discipline :P I'll also be doing 4-5 hours on both Saturday & Sunday with Friday free. Pretty sure this'll suffice for the first few weeks anyway and then after that I can adjust if necessary!
Really making an effort to just constantly learn & revise notes as I go along instead of waiting for tests, exams etc. Especially things like definitions. With my subjects, I have a lot of them to learn word-perfect and as I found out last year, this is not possible the week before the exam. Had my first Applied Maths class on Thursday. Seems like the teacher is going to move at a ferocious pace so I'm going to have to put a lot of work in to keep up. Everyone in the class seems like a mathematical genius and then there's me :P I think I'll like it though. I hope.
Need to start dedicating a few hours every week to HPAT prep again. Not looking forward to that AT ALL but I'm gonna have to suck it up. It has to be done. I really need to improve my score by about 5-10 points to give myself the best chance of getting in which although doesn't sound like much, is going to take a lot of effort to achieve.
This is turning into more of a blog than a study log :P Oh well.0 -
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alaskayoung wrote: »Well this was a fail
Through all that studying you forgot about the study log I'm sure you're sticking to the study routine! 0 -
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