Journals
These journals reflect my weekly experiences as an athletic training student. Each journal reflects either an actual patient contact experience, or something I am working on in my athletic training courses.
This semester I didn’t think I would have much trouble with my classes except for Chemistry. My last chemistry class was my junior year of high school. So I knew I was going to have to study extra for this class. However, I do not think this is the most challenging class I am taking this semester. For me personally, I believe my Human Anatomy class is the hardest. It doesn’t seem like this class would be challenging, but for some reason I can not grasp the material well. I know a lot of the material he teaches in class, but I cannot do well on the tests. I think one part of this reason is because I am very intimidated by Dr. Graham. He teaches the PA students at Emory’s Graduate school, which is where I want to go. So I feel a lot of pressure in his class to make myself do well because I want to be able to open up to him and let him know I am very interested in Emory’s PA program. However, I have not felt like I have been doing good enough in his class to be able to do that, so I am trying to push myself to get better grades so I can open up to him. I think that’s a main reason I find this class challenging because I am putting a lot of pressure on myself to do so well in that class that I begin to second guess myself. Since our first test, I have changed how I have been studying. I have been reading the chapter before he goes over it in class which has been really helpful. I have also begun to do this in all of my classes. I have been finding it hard to find time to do this in all classes, but it has been so much helpful to know the material before the lecture. I think this is a good way to change the way I study. I have been focusing a lot of my time on Human Anatomy. I have a test coming up this Tuesday, so I have been studying for this test for the past two weeks. So hopefully I have figured out a way to increase my grade in this class. This week I was able to get 3 attempts. I have been slacking a lot in clinical book, so I am trying to plan time this week where I can go into the clinic and get masteries.
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BFunk
10/16/2017 02:20:37 pm
This is a great study strategy...and will definitely serve you well in your PA studies as well. Ideally, you should read before classes, so you can come in with any questions or areas that you are fuzzy on that can be addressed in class. Versus feeling fuzzy about what elements of the lecture were about and hoping you can read and fill in the blanks later. Active learning is a much better use of your time...even if it is challenging at first!
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