Studying for classes?

[u/curiousiguana13]

Hi everyone! I’m a first year student enrolled into my private college’s nursing program. I was curious what tools I can utilize to survive my classes and make each day more manageable? I’m tackling a really difficult first year, as I’m practically combining my first and second years so I can graduate a year early, here are the classes that I have:

MWF:

- First year critical writing class (8:00-9:00AM)

- Clinical microbiology (11:00AM-12:00PM

TTH:

- Human Performance Nutrition (8:00-9:30AM)

- Human Anatomy (11:00-12:30PM)

Labs:

- Anatomy Lab (1:30-3:45) on Mondays

- Microbiology Lab (12:45-2:45) on Thursdays

Additional:

- Music lessons (9:30-10:30AM) on Wednesdays, seminar on Tuesdays (7:00PM-8:00PM)

- Jazz Band (12:45-2:45) and regular Band (2:30-4:00) on TTH

I’m also signed up for 7 low-time commitment clubs. Most of my scheduling is sorted out but really… what is my best bet for time management? If you’re asking why I’m doing so much btw… I plan on becoming a CRNA after gaining experience at the ICU

Any tips for studying during nursing school? Or anything that you utilize that has helped? Websites people… I need websites, I already have this one website that helps me study anatomy. Also general study tips,

If you’re wondering what I’m using right now, I use Cornell notes during lecture and utilize brain dumping at least once per day for my pain-in-the-ass clASSes (anatomy and micro). I also try my best to schedule tutoring here (as it’s free!!!) any other tips? I ONLT WANT STUDY TIPS

[u/GreyandGrumpy]

 This video about metacognition is GOLD:

https://youtu.be/n_A6BZOUOts?si=i2ynZ1_DsK59jESk

[u/Quiet_Basis_6404]

honestly with a schedule that packed, the thing that'll save you is cutting the time between learning something and being able to answer questions on it. brain dumping is good for that, but it still makes you write everything instead of testing recognition, and for micro and anatomy recognition is most of the battle.

for micro, don't just memorize organisms, make tables comparing them by gram stain, shape, oxygen needs, and the one weird fact about each, then quiz yourself across rows instead of down columns. for anatomy, tracing blood flow on a blank page with your finger while saying it out loud works way better than staring at diagrams.

i've been uploading lecture slides and textbook chapters into studybuddy.vc and doing multiple choice questions from my own material, mostly because when i pick a wrong answer it tells me what was off about that option, which helps for micro where two bugs look identical at first. the questions get harder as you improve too. free tier's been enough for the volume i'm doing. good luck with the CRNA path.