What classes are you taking? Fall 2016

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Just thought it might be nice to have people to chat with over the course of this semester!

I'm taking:

A&P I

Statistics

Speech

Nutrition

School starts for me tomorrow!

Wondering if anyone has any study tips? So AP exam is Monday. I made an outline of notes, typed up the questions on the quiz, and set up stuff on quizlet. I can match words with definitions and complete multiple choice words. Still trouble with writing definitions.

Typing things out doesn't stimulate the brain the way that writing things does.

What is this exam covering?

We've done different tissues in the body, planes, cavities, what does in all the cavities, microscopy, regions of the gut, cell parts, cellular mitosis and metrics.

So what I did was take a ton of photos in the lab, and printed them out. I taped them to a note card and on the other side of the note card, I wrote down their name, their function and their location. For those things that didn't have photos, I'd write the name on the front, and draw a picture or add visual clues on the back (like, our cell model had rough endoplasmic reticulum as a teal blue structure, lined in dark blue and white dots).

I also rewrote my notes at least 2 times and limited my study sessions to 20 mins or less. I'd be getting ready to go out and my husband would be quizzing me. Or I'd be making dinner and my kids would do the same.

We started the integumentary system and the skeletal system on Wednesday, so I'm already working on flash cards.

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Ah, finally found the student forums! Hello all!

I'm about halfway through pre-reqs. I'm taking classes online so far, but after this semester all I have left are the science classes that have a lab component, so I will be dropping my current job to start attending classes on campus. I also have a tendency to take extra classes that just look interesting because I love classes, so that's slowed me down a bit by taking stuff that's not required but I just wanted to take anyways. Right now I'm taking:

Intro Chemistry (love it!!)

Honors Statistics (also love it!!)

Honors World Civilizations (Through the University of Beijing but receiving credit at my school)

Texas Government (Ugh. Boring boring boring.)

Humanities

Intro to Logic (not required for anything, but very interesting!)

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Oops, meant this as a quote reply. Still figuring this forum out!

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Wondering if anyone has any study tips? So AP exam is Monday. I made an outline of notes, typed up the questions on the quiz, and set up stuff on quizlet. I can match words with definitions and complete multiple choice words. Still trouble with writing definitions.

Find video tutorials on khanacademy.org and YouTube. That way, you're reviewing the material you're studying, but in new ways. Every time you watch a new tutorial on the same concept, it will broaden your understanding of it and then the knowledge itself becomes more intuitive rather than rote.

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Bummed and disappointed received an 84. 4 questions didn't know mainly about macrophages. The other was about cells with no nucleus, which is red blood cells. However, the option were various granular and agranular cells monocytes, neutrophils, basophils, leukocytes, monocytes, and another term that escapes me.

1 question knew the answer, but for some reason put the wrong answer. Kicking myself in the but for that.

2 questions I originally put down the right answers, but changed before handing the exam in.

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Bummed and disappointed received an 84. 4 questions didn't know mainly about macrophages. The other was about cells with no nucleus, which is red blood cells. However, the option were various granular and agranular cells monocytes, neutrophils, basophils, leukocytes, monocytes, and another term that escapes me.

1 question knew the answer, but for some reason put the wrong answer. Kicking myself in the but for that.

2 questions I originally put down the right answers, but changed before handing the exam in.

An 84 isn't a bad grade! I'm sorry you're bummed though. I get it. Most of the stuff on my A&P lab exam that I missed were spelling errors that I shouldn't have made.

Happy Monday all! I hope your week is full of A's! ;)

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Human Anatomy (we don't take A&P together.. we take them separate)

Microbiology

I enjoy anatomy much better than microbiology!!

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I need to vent for a hot second.

I had a huge project for speech that I turned in two weeks ago. There were three parts (A, B, C) and for part C, there were three additional parts (1, 2, 3). I spent HOURS on this project and turned it in feeling really good about it.

I got my part C grade yesterday. 15/60. There was one comment that said "not all required parts present". I opened up the file I submitted, and everything was there. I figured out what happened - it was a four page document, with part 1 on page 1, part 2 on page 2, etc - she didn't scroll down the first page, so I got an F. I'm kinda pissy about it. I commented on the document and emailed her, but I haven't heard anything back.

I'm afraid she won't give me full credit. This project took my high B down to a D.

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Specializes in Emergency.

OMG, that is horrible! Hopefully your teacher will realize it was a misunderstanding and grade the entire project. I have no doubt you worked hard and deserve a good grade.

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If you have proof that you sent the entire assignment and she made the error by not seeing it, l can't imagine she wouldn't regrade such an error. The next step is alerting her to the mistake, which you have obviously done. If by some chance she responds "too bad" I would hold that in my back pocket until the end of the semester. That is certainly an issue that you could appeal in the Dean's office. However, do it at the end of the semester because professors hate when students go over their heads and since you have more assignments to perform...I wouldn't get on the professor's bad side so early in the semester. Good luck, although I'm sure the project will be regarded.

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Specializes in Telemetry.

This is what I did! I haven't been in school for 18 years, so this definitely helped me ease into things. I started with Pych, Nutrition and Medical terminology. Now I am in A&P, and doing very well. If I would have taken this class first, I definitely would have been totally overwhelmed with learning how to study again and getting back in the swing of things. Best of luck to you!

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Ugh - that's terrible, Jen. I hope it'll be regraded.

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