By ThisisMedSchool - 01/11/2012 21:18 - United States - Johnson City

Today, while studying liver pathology and highlighting important lines in my textbook, I realized that I could count the number of words I hadn't highlighted on one hand, over the last six pages. FML
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Meddler09 6

Just go on and highlight the book at this point. It's all kind of important.

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laurenlovesjb 20

I've done the sane thing:/ When I see that I've done that I go over just the minimum with a different color so it's clear what the "key points" are instead of the whole book:)

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mario2012 18

That is a good idea 30. Also I meant to thumb you up not down. Please forgive me.

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mckibben 7

THIS IS NOT MED SCHOOL! THIS IS PATRICK!

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thefallenqueen 5

57, It's from spongebob: Customer: is this the krusty krab? Patrick: No, this is patrick. I thought 31 was funnny, but then again I'm very easily amused :P

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SpikyG 3

Med school. I count all my *cough cough weed cough cough on one single hand.

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dashizam 10

35- BANG. You're disgracing the great state of Ohio, ducky. Shouldn't you be flying south for the winter?

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eggmarie 25

Please read my profile description before making comments about my obviously sarcastic picture.

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charvisioku 22

To avoid that kind of situation, I read through the text and put slips of paper or sticky note or whatever onto any important passages I'd normally highlight. Then read through the book again (but just the passages you've marked) and individually go over each passage until you've condensed it to the bare minimum in your head. THEN highlight. Otherwise you just end up with flourescent pages and too much info to process.

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KVKdragon 26

Why does it seem like such a big deal to type out your own notes on a mobile device or computer? Saves marker ink, paper, and time -_- Plus if you have a smartphone, you can store it on the phone and study whenever the moment strikes

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thefallenqueen 5

Because typing up notes is very tedious, especially when you're reading heavy material. I've tried typing up my notes for various classes and although, Im a fast typer, it took too long

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CharresBarkrey 15

If you already have everything you need to study in a textbook, it would be a waste of time to type up the notes.

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doodlecloud 26

Actually typing/writing notes make you incredibly much more likely to remember them than simply highlighting. The act of taking in information and then rewriting or retelling in your own words is very important.

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vbmg152 18

Have you been to college?? I have & I've done the same thing!

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neurodoc 1

Med school - there's no easy way out and there is no end in sight until you have sent your final application for your fellowship... At some point in your future point you'll have a cold one with your buddies and joke about that time when you where caught highlighting liver pathology while you were sleeping at your desk at 3AM. Read Robins pathology (the big one). It'll stick with you forever.

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DocBastard 38

Is there another pathology book OTHER than Robbins?

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abceasyas123abc 12

He's differentiating the big Robbins from the student Robbins which is what we were advised to read in med school.

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winfieldALJD 6

Wait,wait, wait. You were studying liver pathology? Man. "Hey, it could be worse. You could be the guy studying textbooks on liver pathology."

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thefallenqueen 5

Sure it's not fun now, but when he's making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year and saving lives, you'll WISH you were the guy studying liver pathology :)

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winfieldALJD 6

Of course, but the benefits now are not nearly that amazing as they are later on. So at that moment, more than quite a few things look better.

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winfieldALJD 6

Just the first four words of this FML could be it's own FML. I am still interested in this liver pathology and just how much there could possibly be to it. Hahaha Never even heard of it before

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neurodoc 1

Not much 44; just about 400 pages in font size ten. And things you never knew existed will be the ones that they always ask on your exams.

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Welshite 39

Or you get taught by people who WROTE the textbooks, or who once worked directly underneath them. You don't have a snowball's chance in that case. They KNOW when you haven't studied the books.

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elephantsarecute 16

Does it occur to you, 44, that the study of liver pathology exists because it is important and people are interested in it? Obviously not.

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winfieldALJD 6

Does it occur to you that since the majority of the population most likely doesn't know about liver pathology, that the subject matter is appearing to occur non-interesting except to a very few? Or it could just be that it's not widely educated to many and therefore many do not find it interesting.

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winfieldALJD 6

Neither show it's true value, but no one was saying it was in any way unimportant. Has this occurred to you? Obviously not.

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