nini💋

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You can call me nini or nika !

Pronouns: she/her

Current Status: Working two jobs and attempting to be active on studyblr without burning herself out again. (She's working on getting diagnosed for ADHD lol)

Hobbies/FYI:

og atiny

bookworm

the twilight saga is my entire personality

polyglot (i speak and understand a lot of languages)

dancing, taekwondo, running

I love learning and discussing new methods of learning so please don't hesitate to reach out!

DNI if you're a Terf, rac1st, etc. I do not tolerate any sort of bigotry and you be blocked.

NOTE: This post will be edited frequently!!

The things I do when I get bored at work. I might have to relearn the pathways again ughhh. Mind you, I learn them only a month ago.

The green enzymes are ones I learned from lecture and the black enzymes are the ones I need learn! (See how colour coding can be helpful??)

I had to put a star beside the GAP to 1,3-Bisphosphoglycerate step because I couldn’t remember if it was reversible or not. Tbh I have to do a fact check on all of it lol.

Hope you all enjoy it and let me know your thoughts and feedback in the comments 💋

I truly believe that a brain dump notebook should be a student staple. Whether it's physical or digital doesn't matter. Because I'll have all of the following in the same notebook; my workout plan for the semester, some drafting for psych quiz given to me by my evil AI obsessed prof, and the regulation of glycolysis and CAC. It can be messy, cute, but most importantly functional.

Usually starting a study session is hard to do because there’s the small hurdle of actually starting. This method will set you up to prime yourself for the task in a way that's low effort and frankly kind of cute if you use colours and stickers to indicate different things.

Colour-coding is one of the best ways to organize your info while also keeping it messy. As mentioned above, I had the quiz drafting written butter yellow so I knew exactly where my psych quiz ideas were drafted before the quiz. I also wrote and still write little notes in red to remember certain crucial pieces of info or to indicate corrections for myself during active recall.

The tape/sticker function in Goodnotes is also useful for blocking out definitions or bits of a pathway for an easy way to imbed active recall. So when I wanted to test myself, I just tapped on the tape to reveal the answer and tapped again to cover it up. You can do this with sticky notes or flaps of paper too!

You can format it the way you want and it doesn't have to structured. But here are a few other uses for it:

A revision notebook to write down the key ideas from today's lecture and for review.

Your study log with the topics and time your covered them.

A home for your 500 to do lists so you can cross them out as you go.

Where you can record all of your questions from lecture/class and jot down any advice or answers your instructor might give you.

Basically, the possibilities are endless! So I really recommend having some sort of space or hub to let your mind loose before you start your study session.

Xo,

nini

Disclaimer: Do not repost my posts without credit, especially without my permission (this took me forever to come up with and edit). Additionally, this post will edited frequently.

I'm sure you all have heard of spaced repetition and the Feyman Technique. Yet, many of you might be wondering "I have no clue how to start doing these" or "how do I even include these in a study session?"

But I'm not here to simply regurgitate those strategies or stray you away from them. Rather, I'm here to teach how to use those strategies effectively and in a manner and actually helps you to layer their benefits.

I call this strategy the Prime Prep Apply Predict (or PPAP), like the famous song. It's the four simple cardinal rules I want you to follow every time you study and it is crucial you follow these rules in that very order.

By the end of this summer, you will have (hopefully) built the perfect study session! This is the master-list for all of the techniques that are being explored this summer with the final post about creating your custom study routine.

MASTER-LIST

PRIME

Brain-dumping

PREP

APPLY

PREDICT

FINAL: CREATING THE PERFECT STUDY SESSION

Xo,

nini

that being said, i'm still going to post my study hacks but i think i'll do it as a miniseries that i drop at the start of every sunday. if it gains traction then i will keep it up.

anyways bare with me, it's my reset arc for taekwondo too! i'll be testing for my black belt soon and i need to be ready to take it on.

please feel free to reach out to me if any of you need help with studying any bio related topic, i'm always happy to help :)

hope to talk to you soon!

Xo,

Xo,

Guys all of my personal life stuff just came crashing down on me within this last week or so 😭

Like financial problems, issues at home, issues within the club I run, etc.

Plus I have barely touched biochemistry or studied it really. I also started working but I can't access the materials I need to do my job because of tech problems.

Safe to say that the start of May has been a shit show so far.

Please keep me in your prayers lol.

Xo,