Thinking's the Game

I have been sitting on my bed for hours and hours studying and have come to the conclusion that I like to think better than I like to memorize. This, perhaps, could be the problem that I have to face in the remainder of my gastrointestinal block. Honestly, I understand the information presented, but then the doctors who submit the questions for our test decide to pick out the most obscure details and expect us to remember them. I would consider myself a fairly good memorizer, but sitting for hours and shoving details into my head is more painful than sitting for hours and remembering how things work and why certain drugs are better for certain situations.

Conceptual things are more fun to learn.

For example, anything that has to do with the heart is more interesting than the GI system, only because if you effect one thing in the cardiac system, it results in different, logical, effects upstream or downstream from the initial pathology or problem. Where as in the GI, I have a hard time seeing it.

Needless to say, I may find it slightly refreshing to switch from GI to cardiac pharmacology for the next hour before I head to bed.