crossed brain wires

[lauradi7dw]

Early this morning I was thinking about the origins of WWI and trying hard to remember the catch phrase. What I came up with was "sparkplug of Europe," highly unlikely. It took a long time
to get around to "powderkeg" instead. I have my first A&P test this afternoon, and worry that I'll do stuff like that with body vocabulary.

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[calygrey.livejournal.com]

There are lots and lots of handy mnemonics for biology; they'll be very useful for A&P.

Here's one for the cranial bones: Old People From Texas Eat Spiders

Occipital, parietal, frontal, temporal, ethmoid, sphenoid

Unlike cogitating on a long unused word, the A&P stuff will be fresh and new, and easier to remember. Hope the test went well.

[lauradi7.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the mnemonic. We started the skeleton last night.

94.75% on yesterday's test. We'll see about tomorrow (the combination of
having both lecture & lab and the fact that a semester is condensed into 6 weeks means that there will be lots of tests, close together.) Tomorrow's will be multiple choice & T/F (somewhere between 50 and 100 questions) so that a machine can grade them, but still, it covers about 150 pages of dense textbook info + the lectures. Most of this is information that I really want to know, but it's amazing how fast one can get back into the "will this be on the test"
frame of mind, and how nervous I was yesterday - heart racing and the whole thing.

[dvmp.livejournal.com]

Yikes, I can not imagine if I were taking the class... Tooo many tests, tooo much pressure. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[lauradi7.livejournal.com]

Last night's was much worse - it turns out (I should have remembered) that
multiple choice can be at least as agonizing as short answer, plus you have to
fill in the little circles without making stray marks. I think I missed a lot, but won't know until Tuesday. Arthur tried to be comforting, saying that my main problem may be that I'm out of practice in test-taking techniques (plus relaxation techniques, probably), but I think something else is going on. I realized that for literally decades, when I learn something it's usually getting the general gist
rather than specifics, and my recently chosen field of study is full of precise detail. My whole mind-set (or maybe just my mind) needs to change. Worrisome.