Two things pop up in my head, and the very first one has got to be like the hardest thing that I ever tried learning. It's something that until now, I have not grasped it. Truth is, I already dumped it, maybe, until when I can give in my all(far better than I did then) and when I can stay at it. I should share what it is, but I have not quite gotten over the guilt from not learning it and the shame I will(may) feel from saying it out loud.
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so, on to the very next thing...
The second one which was so difficult to learn. Ha! I still remember it very clearly. It was in my second year in university. First semester precisely. I don't know if I did but I got the feeling that I shared the story here(not sure to what community).
The course was Anatomy- Ana211 to be exact. It was new to me, like everyone else but it was complex and I know that many others found it so but I'm more interested about me. Now, the reason the course was so wss because we had to learn about the anatomy of the body, particularly the muscles and bones of the upper and lower limbs. You see, that was the problem; having to learn about muscles and then bones.
Like, these muscles and bones don't go by collective names. Oh my! And these names are the problems cause they aren't the regular. They're sort of generic/species kind of names that are difficult to grasp, and boy are they in their numbers. Far too many. From attending classes, having about four lecturers handling the course, to reading pdfs which I recall were over ten, some as textbooks with hundreds of pages to attending laboratory practical to using slides and having to see and feel these bones(most of which were human bones) to using slides...it was lot. My notes and handouts were in tens of pages, and barely through the first five pages, I'd get both physically and mentally exhausted. The only option was to cram -'la cram la pour' type thing - and that didn't even cut it cause where I wan start? How many would I successfully get in my head without mixing them all up?
In the end, I did learn it. It was more studying and learning for myself than cramming. It happened just about two days to exams. I had this group study(against my initial age-long belief) with a pal, and we went head-on from mid-morning through to evening with about twenty minutes break every hour and half. However, we did skip certain parts of the note. The aim was to grasp whatever we could so solidly. Lucky for us, it was a walkover. I don't remember being in any exam hall since I began university and feeling that level of confidence and enthusiasm and pride as I did that day. I still remember how my friend and I skipped all the way to her home in glee like little girls as we went to study for the next day's paper. Prior to that study, I tell you truthfully, I would never have believed that I'd make any grads higher than an E(should be an F but let's say manual fillings, assignments and test got me up to E). Nah! No course, yet, beat Ana 211.
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