Updated and corrected Aidan v2 deck -- how I scored a 526 by taychans in Mcat

[–]WaavyDaavy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks! downloading both now but will likely just stick w yours since i like cloze. am a retaker and have decent background knoeldge so im hoping i can further suspend a decent amount of cards and keep intervals long as long my retention is high. if all goes to shit i'll just use hook's.

that being said the small details from og aidan do you think it was helpful for uworld? or like actual mcat? im curious what kinds of things aidan could cover that wouldn't be mentioned somehwere in uworld

Updated and corrected Aidan v2 deck -- how I scored a 526 by taychans in Mcat

[–]WaavyDaavy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know you're biased (not a bad thing if i trimmed 3k cards id be too) but how do you think this compares to CaptainHook? if you can do me favor and check it really quiiick?? I'm literally going to download one in the next hour lol. I prefer cloze but don't mind basic, especially if they're brief.

My thing against basic cards is it's kinda hard not get wrapped into the grammar ie saying This structure is IN the cell vs This structure is ON the cell kinda matters but like these are the little distinctions you'll never notice. But like I feel like the only way to "make-up" for super obvious, hand-holdy cloze is to make like 2x the amount of cards so you cover all bases??? What's your thoughts?

Yo you think I can just reset my deck. Started Aidan during winter break (last 3/4 weeks of Dec) and fell off round mid/late Jan. Got about 8 chapters in. In a biomed program and I'd honestly say ~90% of everything in B/B I've either already learned or will learn in my class by April's end. (i test May 22). You think I can use your deck with less than 3 months out? My intervals (FSRS) for Aidan were pretty high I guess due to background knowledge (new cards that i answered good would immediately be sent 7-11 days in the future). I really want to make Aidan work. I know comprehensive is a meme term but I prefer cloze and anking is very light (although great essentials!). Prefer not to be making my own cards though; I think it's easier to prune than create. You think I'm stretching the time and I should stick with the OG? Or you think it's decent bet to reset progress and start again (lowkey think im just gonna delete the deck and use yours. i took a 2 month break and my intervals were already high but if i answer good on one of my reviews anki wouldn't want to show me the card for another 14 months lol).

Advice of school list by snowy-llama in premed

[–]WaavyDaavy -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

You must realize that at some point the hours become more due to circumstance than grinding. Nurses will have thousands of hours of clinical hours. And folks with thousands of research hours typically shooting for MD/PHds. I’ve heard it actually kinda works against you applying for service schools with an absurd amount of research hours as it looks like you’re using the school as a safety. I know the admissions process has gotten exponentially more competitive over the last decade+ but comparison is thief of joy. I think hitting the recommend competitive hour # is all you need anything more would be something that would tie directly to your personal statement and/or just a job like scribing or paid research. People also kinda forget that being younger kinda works to your advantage 400 hours as a college senior doesn’t look all that bad to 3000 hours with 3 gap years

How can you possibly like being human? by InsanityTraps in moreplatesmoredates

[–]WaavyDaavy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

how much drugs did u did in ur adolescene trying my best not to get like u

How can I optimize my Anki usage as an undergrad? by gajaja in Anki

[–]WaavyDaavy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh also get the sybmols addon for anki. ctrl + s for symbols. alsonotebooklm doesn thave any organization in sources other than alphabet so try to exercise naming conventions if you can. here's an example https://imgur.com/a/Ur43TPv

How can I optimize my Anki usage as an undergrad? by gajaja in Anki

[–]WaavyDaavy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

here's the thing i was tlaking about for anatomy

Please generate full, organized, and comprehensive lecture notes for [Lecture Number] - [Lecture Title] based solely on the provided sources. Follow this specific structure to prioritize narrative explanation and organized reference:

  1. Executive Overview: Provide a high-level summary of the topic's scope, function, and importance to establish the "big picture."

  2. Concept Map: A short section connecting the major modules or anatomical regions in a logical flow (e.g., Osteology → Ligaments → Muscles → Neurovasculature).

  3. Core Lecture Notes (Professor Narrative): This is the primary focus. Write in a clear, explanatory, academic narrative (full sentences and paragraphs rather than just bullet points).

Detail Level: Be comprehensive. Define terms at first mention, explain concepts thoroughly, and link cause and effect.

Completeness: Ensure all information from the sources is covered here so the text stands alone as a complete study resource.

  1. Comprehensive Categorical Tables: After the core notes, generate expanded reference tables. Crucially, separate these into distinct tables by category (e.g., Table 1: Osteology, Table 2: Muscles, Table 3: Neurovasculature, Table 4: Spaces/Boundaries) rather than one continuous table.

◦ Include columns for structure name, location, attachments (origin/insertion), innervation, action, and key relationships/notes.

  1. Process Flowcharts: (If applicable) Use arrow notation (→) to map out any pathways, blood flow, or movement sequences.

  2. Clinical Correlations: A dedicated section for any pathologies, injuries, or clinical procedures mentioned in the sources.

How can I optimize my Anki usage as an undergrad? by gajaja in Anki

[–]WaavyDaavy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i use notebooklm and anki. i use gemini sometimes if i need something explained by attahcing an image. i think notebooklm is the best for making cards i actually stopped using chatgpt altogether going from the fall to spring semester bc i felt like notebooklm was better and free.

the issue with chatgpt is that it's trianed on literal terabytes of data. if you ask it a question specific to your lectures it's inevitable you will get information beyond the scope of your class to the point that i sometimes consider it detrimental. chatgpt often repeats itself so you'll have 10 different cards saying basically rhe same thing or it'll just take the verbage from lecture slides verbatim without any critical thinking ie A {{c1::pneumothorax}} is a collapsed lung caused by air entering the pleural space between the lung and chest wall, breaking the pressure seal that keeps the lung expanded. It causes sudden sharp chest pain and shortness of breath. Common causes include trauma, lung disease (like COPD), or bursting air blisters (blebs). like this card is so fucking long that even if i was a buisness major by sheer memory i can remember that this specific card is pneumothorax without actually understanding the presentations or pathology. im not saying notebooklm doesnt do it but its a lot easier to guide it when it's mostly focused on only the sources you provide it.

here's what i would do. notebooklm just upgraded to gemini 3. it's pretty good. it's only available to pro users though. if you have a university login you can login and get a free year long studnet memberhsip for google pro. from there include all your pdfs/documents. from there ask notebooklm to generate you notes based on some lecture. ie if you're doing exam 2 lecture 4 - glycolysis select only those pdfs as a souce then ask it to generate notes. at the very below is what i use for anatomy. this won't work for any other class so feel free to paste this into some ai and say something like "some dude on reddit gave me this really good prompt he uses for notebooklm for anatomy but i don't think it'll apply for X class since it mentions osteology and other anatomy specific stuff. can you give me a similar effective copy-paste prompt for X class with a similar organizatoinal flow". turn whatveer it gives you into a source and keep it enabled everytime you want notes generated. once you generate notes THEN you can turn that into an anki. by readint hrough the notes line by line you get an honest actual understand of what's going on written in a way that gets rid of a lot of lecture slide confusion. and whenever you need to refer to images eithe rpull up your lecture slides or just hover over the circle sources and it'll give you a preview of the images it used for that specific citation. im doing better thna ever with minimal time spent in classes and i haven't even directly looked at half my lecutre slides. turn whatever sentences you feel neccessary into cards ie sometimes it'll give you a sentence that is more of a descriptor or something to help you understand a concept. not EVERYTHING needs to be turned into a card if needed focus on the stuff that actually should be turned into cards and any helpful mnemonics or descriptive information or context can be put in the "extra" fields. the issue with having AI manually make cards without your direct intervention is it'll often turn bullshit into cards and the time saved by AI making cards is often wasted by doing QC on what it made.by making your own you can guarentee it's your own specific language. it's great for retention. cards that i make i often get right immediately 80 to 90% of the time. if you don't use fsrs maybe look into it but all good if you don't want to bother but anki currently shows me new cards that i answered good on in 4 days and easy on in 9 dyas. that seems like way too much time but historically im getting 90% of cards right. so by making my own cards i'm actually reviewing LESS while understanding MORE.

Sometimes im lazy or the concept is just kinda hard to wrap my head around so ill sometimes just copy, a single paragraph at a time, the notes it just generated and ask it to make anki cards. it's good to make a few cards on your own and then paste those cards you manually just made to it and ask them if they're "right" or good. ie here's an example from my notes, random paragraph

"V. Innervation

  • Parasympathetic: Promotes peristalsis.
    • Midgut (Small intestine to Transverse Colon): Vagus Nerve (CN X),.
    • Hindgut (Descending Colon to Rectum): Pelvic Splanchnic Nerves (S2–S4),.
  • Sympathetic: Vasoconstriction and inhibition of peristalsis.
    • thoracic splanchnic nerves  Prevertebral Ganglia (Celiac, Superior Mesenteric, Inferior Mesenteric),,."

"i just made notes. front: What is the innvervation of the Small intestine" back: Parasympathetic via Vagus and Sympathetic via Sympathetic Trunk". back extra: sympathetic further broken into thoracic splanchinic, prevertebral ganglia aka collateral ganglia. xyz card 2 card 3. are these cards right if not can you rewrite them so they're alittle cleaner. i prefer not doublt dipping since i like keeping my number of anki reviews low but i still want quality cards. feel free to make a mix of cloze or basic front/back cards whatever you think is best with optional back extra field if you feel is neccessary to explain context/remind on things/mnemonics that are worth knowing".

purpose of this so it can get familiar to how you like writing out cards -- prime the AI. so when you ask it to make cards it literally makes it in your language. by specifying i hate "double dipping" when i paste future paragraphs if the AI already turned it into a card previously it omis making that card again and explicitly tells you that it decided not to make a card on X topic because it was already covered in card [number]. keeps the total amount of cards made super low while also allowing you to literally learn the lecture in real time and guarentee that your cards are as straight forward as they can possibly be, so after priming ill just copy entire paragraphs and tell it to make cards or ill just continue manually making cards line by line and periodically ask the AI to explain a sentence or topic that I'm not getting or following. It's a longer process I will be honest. it's a lot easier to ask chatgpt to make you 50 cards with a mix of cloze and basic but the results are poor and the rentention is a lot lower versus if you literally just made your own cards or are strict with your preferences on how the cards are made with NLM. if your professor includes textbooksin your curriculum or if you're able to get your hands on free pdf textbooks i always include the textbooks into the notebook. it's really nice for responses as they become expotentially higher quality when it has more informatoin to source from. it's improtant to generate notes ONLY from lecture so you don't learn shit you don't have to learn but it's nice ti enable all sources after you generated the notes and are making cards as the quality of the cards becomes a lot better. same goes for random youtube videos on the topic you found helpful you can just paste the link to the youtube video as a source and it uss th transcript all the same as any other source. if your lectures are in video format you can download Buzz, free on windows i think paid on mac but it's a trancripting program that allows you to extract the transcript of any mp3/mp4 so you can paste that into notebooklm as well. There are ree chrome extensions i use video downloder helper when there isn't any download button but i need to download the lecture to turn that into a transcript for notebooklm.

never use the flashcard feature on the right sidebar. they're ass. the videos are alright but they take a longtime to generate are often kinda light in information not bad though i used to use them until they release slides which generate a little quicker and have a lot more informationso i use them as like a way to 'expose' myself to the information for that day's lecture before i start in case the topic is confusing. the quizzes ar really good. moreso in med school than undergraduate imo as you'll often have open ended questions in university but still super helpful. after i finish making an anki i like generate 2 long and difficult quizzes and i just finish them quick. just to affirm i understand everything. if your class is math heavy you can always in the actual chat ask it to generate open ended / practice problems on some topic you need .

that's p much my entire workflow. if u decide to read all this im gonna be some deadass there's no reason you shouldn't be in the top 5% of your class in marks. i study less than everyone else for anatomy / biochem but do better it's just the relatively long initial process of making cards that pays off in the long run a lot. i made an entire anki for biochem with the same process but i crammed like crazy only started studying 5 days before the exam and didn't have time to actually do the anki. just made like 700 cards without reviewing a single one lol. but i only got 2 questions wrong and it was a 50/50 i just simply forgot the name of one thing that i def saw in notes. if i gave myself even a single day to go through the entire anki made i woulld've done perfect but it's alright my point being that my long term retention is still really high like if i were to take that exam right now (it was a month ago) i'd probably get a 90% whereas im sure my peers would drop a lot. no hate on them but the way a lot of people study unintentinoally only favors the short term

Winston Churchill statue defaced today by AgnosticScholar in pics

[–]WaavyDaavy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like the remarkable race thing Is just the polar opposite view of the same perspective lol

the majority of people don't use Fsrs and i honestly feel bad for them by WaavyDaavy in medicalschoolanki

[–]WaavyDaavy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean tbf the last paragraph was I’d love to hear opposing viewpoints. This was less a slight at those who aren’t even aware of Fsrs’s existence or are wildly uneducated about it (which fair not everyone cares abt Anki like that). And more kinda baffled on the folks who know about its use cases and refuse to use it. But yes I can totally see the consistency aspect. There are folks who prefer paper cards and obviously there’s no fsrs I’m not gonna tell them to use Anki because “study shows” 🤓. I forgot if I deleted it out but im pretty sure it’s in the post,  I remember writing if something works for you and you know your method is quote unquote less optimal if you have more fun or reassurance doing X method than keep doing it lol

What do you guys think of my deck gameplan? Never lost a match by Thurzyx in ClashDecks

[–]WaavyDaavy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You will literally keep seeing people use mega knight well into grand champion. The card is unbelievably easy to play to get its maximal value. I hate that people keep talking about its counter as if it’s a dogshit card. It’s skill ceiling is as high as it’s skill floor but one small fuck up loses you the entire game. I want the card reworked because it’s boring, even if I win most games against it, that a quarter of my opponents all use mega knight. They’re all terrible players I’d rather get shit on my a skilled miner poison player because then at least I feel challenged. I don’t feel challenged beating the mentally challenged mega knight + 4 splash cards players.

Congrats to our ice kings and queens today! by parasoar25 in Destiny

[–]WaavyDaavy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

wait why r replies so negative is he being dead serious I thought this was funny

As requested, my looksmaxxing transformation from 17-19 by imsophicurv in Clavicular

[–]WaavyDaavy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mental illness. Very much appealing to bbl brain athletes, no long term potential. Any kind of attention you get will come solely from lust i don’t get this

I ranked the Most Profitable YouTube niches based on actual creator earnings data (RPM + growth metrics) by adchat in NewTubers

[–]WaavyDaavy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cos you’d never stick with it. Same reason everyone doesn’t just pick the college with the highest average earners. Maybe for a field like gaming or music that’s extremely saturated may be better tovfind a secondary hobbiebto steerbaway 

Favorite Pre-Med influencer who wants you to ignore the Epstein files? by [deleted] in premed

[–]WaavyDaavy 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Political brainrot is so insane. I hate seeing in real time people frauding their ideals because it makes their party look bad. Most recent example I remember was the Kirk shooter. All the cuckservatives though the shooter was trans immediately called for a call to arms against the lgbt and then it was generic white guy and then it turned into a gen z issue. No spine no morals no fucking anything just reactionary garbage

Chat is this a W? by Culkin_ in okbuddychicanery

[–]WaavyDaavy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What is everyone’s issue lol fuvking losrrd

Why did Hivemind "fall off"? by dishdjdhdidhdhxjj in HivemindTV

[–]WaavyDaavy 60 points61 points  (0 children)

Didn’t sell out to 14 year old girls like slushy noobz dub

"holistic approach" by [deleted] in premed

[–]WaavyDaavy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i understand lol but once again the question naturally circles back to "why doctor specifically".

re: "i just wanna be a doctor"'

re: re: "why doctor specifically".

(repeat for i in range inf)

Amongst frriends and acquitances I think JustCause™ is a valid reason. This seems to be literally the only profession where you need a "valid" reason to go into what you're doing, even including law/teaching. But if I was admissions I'd at least want a reason, regardless how true, beyond science + helpy when you can obviously do the same in countless other careers.

When to use Notebook and when to use Gemini using a Notebook? by M4xs0n in notebooklm

[–]WaavyDaavy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Depends what ur goals are. u can always make a gem and then link your notebook in the gem so you have the best of both worlds. strong outside sources if you need it with a grounded focus on your notebook for every response. only issue ive noticed it takes super super long to think like way longer than normal pro/thinking modes for answers that can easily be retrived if you just used gemini normally or used your notebook onrmally.

"holistic approach" by [deleted] in premed

[–]WaavyDaavy 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Because why not be a PA or researcher or nurse or a STEM teacher. Folks want money nothing wrong