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drink more water instead of more coffee.

weekly goals are bullshit. set yourself 3-day goals. you’ll be less laid-back.

don’t just mindlessly stare at words. before you start studying, know your approach to it. have a plan.

summarizing the concept in your own words is the key part of taking notes. don’t just copy things down, convert them into your own way of talking, your own vocabulary, no matter how dumb and unprofessional it sounds.

don’t let the “studyblr aesthetic” fool you. studying doesn’t have to be pretty. summaries and notes can be messy as long as they’re comprehensible. you can always rewrite and reorganize them later. (honestly, you better do. and you better keep them.)

don’t throw away the papers you’ve solved your problems in. staple them to the fucking textbook. you need to see them constantly. cause you’ll need reminders of how far you’ve came, when you’re feeling discouraged.

don’t be an armchair analyst for your issues. if you have an idea then act on it.

remember: the exact point where it becomes difficult, is where your growth begins. take a deep breath, and try to focus on the paragraph in front of you.

get off your high horse and understand that if you’re a zero, you won’t go to 100 in a couple of days. first, you’ll need to reach 30, then from 30 to 60, and then from 60 to 90. nobody is 100 everyday. that happens very rarely.

you need to have fun everyday. you need to have peaceful time every single day. even on exam night. especially on exam night, actually. so make sure you’ve studied enough so you can have some time to yourself.

once you’re on a roll and in need of some challenge to stay on track, start writing down your studying hours. tell yourself you’re not allowed to do less than 80% of what you did yesterday. whatever the hell it was, even just one hour. so if yesterday you really studied for like, say 8 hours, today your goal is to study for at least 6 and a half hours. if you can’t keep up with that, make it 70%, or 60%. 

embarrassing moments in the past. things you should have phrased differently. people you wish you still knew. those tiny mistakes that keep you up at night - we are all made up of them. all we can do is move forward.

jealousy of others for already having the success you’re striving towards. as a writing tutor once said, “don’t piss on other people’s chips. because one day when you’re eating chips, you really won’t want them to have piss on.”

the phrase “i’ll be happy when ….” you won’t. the thing you think you’re after won’t satisfy you the way you expect. learn to stop striving and start appreciating.

the feeling that every minute not spent doing the creative activity you love (writing knitting art jogging journalling reading), or every minute not crammed with a form of media or entertainment (music tv youtube audiobook podcast), is “unproductive” or a waste. sometimes u can just sit and listen and experience what the world has given you in that moment.

the idea that someone has an intrinsically better life because they have the clothes or body or holiday or house or partner you crave.

the guilt of not being there for everyone all the time. it’s only our phones that have made us feel we have a duty to be 24/7 in touch. it’s ok to take breaks.

the need to photograph every meal or coffee cup or sunset or outing with friends. not because there’s anything wrong with keeping a record but because the pressure to get the “right” and “perfect” shot decreases the joy of living and experiencing the thing itself.

The idea of a perfect person or a perfect self, we’re gonna have bad days, people are gonna have flaws - it’s what makes us human

4/4/20

The final deadline stretch is driving me INSANE. I’m never touching economics again as long as I live- sort of glad I dabbled with it, though! Now I know Never. To. Again.

Been coping with the quarantine with a lot of coffee, a lot of reading, a lot of new music, a lot of facetime, and a lot of exercise.

How are you guys coping/ not coping? Hope you’re all keeping safe and well in Dese Strange Fuckin Times.

april 22nd, 6:32 pm

finals are hitting harder than expected, sigh.. i’m looking forward to spending a summer just. studying languages and watching pbs eons !! i’m v happy to be out of the uni apps fervour though (if you’re an hs student and want to talk about applications, feel free to send me an ask c: !!)

1-4-17 Hi! I’m on that school grind again. I feel tired and restless as always but there’s more to do, so let’s go let’s go!

Monday 04.27. 

Hi there ! First day of my productivity challenge. 

I started working at 9 am with a cardiology lesson on valvular diseases. It took me a few hours to take notes and summarize everything correctly since the teacher is speaking way too quickly for me. 😳

By the afternoon I had two lectures on the reproductive system. And I just finished the second one about contraception. 

How was your day ? 

Rough ER (RER) is involved in some protein production, protein folding, quality control and despatch

Called ‘rough’ because studded with ribosomes

Smooth ER (SER) is associated with the production and metabolism of fats and steroid hormones

Smooth because no ribosomes and is associated with smooth, slippery fats.

STRUCTURE

Continuous membrane of flattened sacs (cisternae) and network tubules, touching nuclear membrane. 

Membrane bound ribosomes firmly attached to the outer cytosolic side of the RER

However these are constantly being bound and released - will only bind when specific protein-nucleic acid complex forms in cytosol 

FUNCTION

Proteins are made by the ribosomes on the surface of the RER - translation

Then (some) are threaded inside RER to be modified and transported

RER working with membrane bound ribosomes takes polypeptides and amino acids from the cytosol and continues protein assembly including, at an early stage, recognising a ‘destination label’ attached to each of them. 

Proteins are produced for the plasma membrane, Golgi apparatus, secretory vesicles, lysosomes, endosomes and the ER. 

Some  proteins into the lumen (inside) of the RER; others are processed in RER membrane itself

Lumen: some proteins have sugar groups added to form glycoproteins; some have metal groups added

EG: in RER four polypeptide chains are brought together to form haemoglobin.

Protein folding unit lumen of the rough ER: proteins folded to produce biochemical architecture which will provide ‘lock and key’ and other recognition and linking sites.

Protein quality control section

Lumen: incorrectly formed or incorrectly folded proteins rejected. 

Rejects stored in the lumen or sent for recycling for eventual breakdown to amino acids. 

A form of cystic fibrosis = missing single amino acid, phenylanaline, in a particular position in the protein construction. Quality control section spots the error and rejects, however individual would have been better off with poor product than none at all

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I remember drawing all the branches of the abdominal aorta until its terminal branches back when I was a first year med student. Yet, I can’t seem to master them completely!