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today, i’m coming at y’all with a highly requested post: how to grow your instagram! i’m coming up on 11 months of Magnolia Med in june, and i’m in awe of the community i have on here every day.
so here’s my NUMBER ONE, BIGGEST tip on growing your account: •don’t worry about it
i’m serious. don’t look at the followers and wonder what you can do to add more. don’t change your content, don’t post what you feel people want to see.
i never expected to get over 100 followers. i really didn’t. there’s no way i can give advice on how to grow because i have NO IDEA how I did it.
however, i have a few tips on making an instagram you’re proud of:
•be authentic
•be proud of your success
•but open with your failures
•talk about the highs
•and the lows
•and give the advice you wish you had when you were in other’s shoes
•answer all the DM’s you can
•encourage, never tear down
•don’t do it for the numbers, or the free things. it’s not worth it to lose yourself to that
•don’t compare yourself against bigger accounts, or smaller.
•just. do. you.
have a good wednesday :’)
i get asked all the time- why do you make your notes look pretty? couldn’t you use your time for other things? i’ve even had someone use my first failed ochem exam against me, blasting it and saying “maybe if she hadn’t taken so much time on her notes, she would have passed”. i could answer that first question in a number of ways. i’m pretty fast at making my notes, so why not? my handwriting just looks like that, it’s not taking extra time. the color sorting helps me group ideas. i could go on and on.
but in the end, why do i do it?
because it makes me happy.
at my core, i’m an artist. i love creating, i love cohesion and structure and organizing visual aspects. making my notes nice is a little thing that brings me joy in the midst of premed stress and life stress.
i learned early on not to defend myself against people being rude for no reason. if people want to criticize something that brings me joy, then that just reflects on their character, not mine.
as for me, i’ll keep at it. for those of you who have a study method that brings you joy, HOLD ON TO IT. i LOVE notes, i LOVE my big ol whiteboards. while they’re not the most efficient ways to study, they’re effective and i love creating them.
as long as you’re not hurting anyone, don’t let people judge what makes you happy, no matter what it is.
| HOW TO STUDY ORGANIC CHEMISTRY |
i made a 65 on my first O-Chem II exam. after all A’s + B’s in O-Chem I, I was shocked. i had never scored so low on an exam in my life. O-Chem II is very different than the O-Chem I, you can pass using memorization in the first semester, but once the second comes, you have to learn how to understand concepts and find connections. doing so helped me make an A on my ACS final with an upward trend in my exam grades all semester. how did i do it?
a) forget memorization. it won’t help you now. the only things you should be memorizing is common names for benzenes with substituents, and ochem 1/gen chem stuff. do not try to memorize the reagents back and forth.
b) classify reagents by what they do! are they ortho directors? do they add markovnikov or anti? will this turn an aldehyde into a carboxylic acid? does this perform addition to the most or least substituted carbon? classify them HOWEVER makes most sense to you, and look for patterns. if you can’t find any among some, find a new classification they fit in.
c) track reactions. mark where the nucleophile is at the beginning, and where it is at the end. same for electrophiles. TRACK CHARGES. understand every part of the reaction. don’t make a single change in a molecule without knowing why it happens. this is a huge reason i use whiteboards- i can mark these things in different colors over and over and over.
d) practice problems. do everything your professor gives you. have an MCAT prep book? do all the ones in there. look them up online. taking the acs final? BUY THE PRACTICE TEST.
speaking of the ACS final, here are my specific tips: know resonance and how it affects a molecule. know how to transform one functional group into another, and what reagents would work. you should know functional groups in your sleep, even the benzene based ones (phenol, toluene, etc). the ACS final feels hard when you’re taking it. it tests on so much that you can NOT memorize everything. get a good nights sleep. so many of the questions can be solved by thinking things through.
if you have any more questions, drop them below! feel free to save this for future reference!
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day 2/3 of being off of school and work. i didn’t even realize how much i needed them. i hadn’t had a day off since december, and even then i was studying ochem so that when i started ochem 2, i would have forgotten everything. oof. it feels good. i highly recommend using this summer to take a few days to just do NOTHING. it’s wonderful.
i remember this pic being taken at 6 am after an all nighter. i was so freaking exhausted, but i felt like i had to keep going. one of my goals for next semester is NO all nighters. i feel like one of the reasons i did well on the ACS final was the fact that I got some sleep so my brain could function better when it came to using conceptual knowledge to solve a problem.
who else wants to commit to no all nighters with me? what are your goals for next semester?
good morning! kicking off the weekend at work, i’m the only scribe in the ER so i’m having to be shared among the providers. i love getting to do this because i get to talk to all of them a bunch, and as an extrovert, that’s my happy place. being an extrovert comes in handy at times, but it also can get in the way. if you watched my ig live the other day, you saw that i loooveee being chatty when i’m studying, which is not good when i really need to focus!
are you an introvert or an extrovert?