Posted by alexandra_k on November 5, 2018, at 15:37:31
In reply to Re: The Witch King of Angmar, posted by alexandra_k on November 5, 2018, at 14:55:08
And it's sad because I have some really good memories of studying for Psychology, as an undergrad. Started out where I was helping someone who wanted to study with me. I'd already indepenently learned most of it, so basically, I ended up tutoring him. So I got to show him all the cognitive tricks I used to learn the content and the way I'd rearranged it and so on... We both came out with terrific grades. Kept studying together the next year... He started studying independently, as well, and ended up taking to stuff that was harder for me and so on... We really helped each other through to keep out terrific grades across the range of psychology courses. And then other people (who did alright but a bit worse) who didn't put as much of their independent time in, but kept the group study sessions fun and kept us motived and we learned from them too, yeah.
So when I went back for pre-med I thought I was going to find adult students like that. People who were highly motivated to be high achievers and people who I would be able to work with. But, instead, I found a series of people who were more willing to talk the talk than walk the walk on any of the study... I didn't find people who knew it when they saw it when it came to ways to learn... I didn't find people offering much in the way of those techniques themselves... The formal tutorials were all repetition repetition repetition of words and phrases... To suck all that is living and good...
Maybe if I actually get into Med I'll meet people, again, who are motivated and we can get some group study going on... From what I've heard group study is mostly... People don't know what the hell the project is. They don't know what they are supposed to be learning because lecturing style is often doing a big brain dump of a years worth of content in a lecture, or whatever. Reading lists.
I kinda feel like the USMLE isn't a big secret - right? I mean, everyone in the US and Canada is studying for it. The point of the test and the point of the curriculum is to get people workign through a body of knowledge / content... Only... I think that will be low key, here. It's part of the whole 'there's two ways to get ahead and kicking other people back is a viable strategy'. The thought being that the less people who know to study for it, the better ones own personal chances.
Only, the less people who know to study for it, the more people are wasting time doing other things... And that makes it harder to get a group of people you can study productively with.
I mean... Everyone in the US is on the same page with it, but people still make better or worse use of the study material they've got.
Otherwise... It's like the freaking law students ripping pages out of the statute books so other people can't find the relevant precedent for their (competitive) essays.
To the detriment of the entire law school
...
Something something about 'get with the program'.
Of course I know it's about cheap slave labour. That's what they are going for. But the thing is: If you want people to want to stay for PGY1 and PGY2 and beyond then... You really need to listen to them / treat them better.
But they won't.
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