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[nisaa]

I don't know why I'm still awake.
I have a lot to do tomorrow but am enjoying the silence and alone time in my room. My husband went off to the "Bug War" - aka "Great Western War" and I chose to stay at home this year because I had a miserable time last year and didn't get any studying done. And then there were all the flies and the stench from the next door dairy farm. Yuck!!

I have to work all day tomorrow and then come home and study, study, study. I am somehow determined to not get all wound up about these midterms this time around. I'm doing well in Biochem and Herbs. And I'll just learn Points and what they do thru rote memorization. Or something. Rote memorization is how I learned French, after all.

Our unexpected houseguest leaves tomorrow, and his cat will stay to play with ours until houseguest moves into his new apt. on Wednesday. Our roommate's boyfriend comes to town tomorrow for about 4 days. I'll try to make myself scarce, or at least hide in my room and study for some of the weekend. Or hide in my garden or my upstairs neighbor's apt.

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[merchimerch.livejournal.com]

speaking of rote memorization - do you need a source for flashcard crack? I can hook you up with one of my colleages.

I miss you guys - hope you're surviving year 2 of grad school allright.

flashcard crack

[nisaa.livejournal.com]

Thanks but I bought some book rings at Staples and am making my own flascards this term. :)

points tip

[acumen.livejournal.com]

ok, here are really good points studying tips, 2 appraoches. not only will it help you on your tests now but you'll be so glad you did it later when clinic-ing.

1) first, open your book, find the point on yourself or beau and study the point "bookending" it with actually palpating the point. this really helps kind of give the points their personality. sometimes all the points on a channel blur together--a major obstacle to learning points--and this rilly helps.

2) or, an even better way if you want to put a little more effort in because you can save this and keep referring to it: draw out the channel and where it goes on the body. you can xerox/enlarge landscape views of the channel from books. then, write the functions/indications/info for each point on this. you will thank yourself a million times over for doing this later. plus, you can bring the sheets with you everywhere and look at it. you'll get really good at location too doing this, even though you're not really doing that much location.

and do you know about the "phone #s" chart for keeping track of what points are xi-cleft, luo-connecting, yuan source and antique points?

things i wish i knew the first time around! good luck, i'm sure you will kick ass on all of it!

xoxo,
e

Re: points tip

[nisaa.livejournal.com]

So I got my photocopies of the meridians and labelled them.
I have one of those "phone #s" charts but didn't know that I should try to remember them like phone #s. Clever. :)

Now if I could only study, it would be all good.