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What you've just said accurately sums up every message I've sent to everyone throughout the entirety of yesterday, as I relate.

This is what I have for a brain. None, that is. Just this mushroom, stuck in an endless, perpetual loop of struggling

I can very much attest to that. By the way, I'm going to have my 2nd year medical exams tomorrow, do you have any tips on revising anatomy and biochemistry, those two like to bully me a lot to the point where I become a struggling mushroom. I heard you're a guy who is good in biology stuff.

Anatomy, physiology, generally everything with biology tend to be a very "Read and tell" type of of deal. You don't really understand it well, until you know you can roughly teach the subject to someone who is uninformed of it. Which is why I like it, as basically everything you read you can connect together like a big image in your head, more you read, exponentially more you'll know how to describe it.

But Biochemistry, unlike every other is a very different beast. It's (sadly) really heavy with memorization. Because you already know how the biological functions work, you already know their purpose and which other metabolisms they effect... What you have to now learn is which molecules do all those, step by step, ladder by ladder, cycle by cycle. Which is what I dislike about it

The best way to (changes with people, but this is what seems to work with me) really keep everything in mind and remember is via presenting. You'll most likely just fall into deep stress and depression if you try and repeatedly write down everything you know in an effort to memorize.

Instead, prepare a presentation. Read it to yourself, present it to an audience that may or may not exist. THAT will be what really carves it into your head.

The key is that you'll look for ways to "How do I tell X while making it sound understandable? How do I explain every step in this cycle without making it feel like I'm just reading a text?"

Hope you'll do well, wish you all the best.

Goodness, these are a lot of incredible tips. I've been relying mostly on a lot on memorization indeed because my presenting skills is a little sucky, particularly in those aspects of anatomy especially, especially when it comes to anatomy being clinically integrated into a question. (relating nerves, blood vessels, etc)

Biochemistry is well.. Yeah one of that topics that couldn't really stick well to be honest, I always have a hard time understanding it which led to me just only understanding the overall basis of said processes, though I know some would be very important for me to understand. Interestingly enough, anatomy is harder than biochem for me.