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[uknowwhoiam]

this morning, i woke up a half hour before my alarm clock, it wasn't great. i had a dream about julia and she had some issues with her family. i don't know how this random dream came about, but it was strange! julia's dad's girlfriend wanted to kick her out of their apartment because she thought julia's room (the entire bottom floor!) was taking up too much space and she wanted to throw some parties. it was a sweet room. sorry julia. so, me and ryan, who happens to fly back and forth from paris every weekend, stopped by to comfort her. i had written a poem for her, but then it somehow ended up with francesca and susan and they critiqued it and i was ok with that. then, i guess i got startled at that part and i woke up thinking i was gonna fail out of school! and i started calculating my potential gpa as it stands now and all i see is a 2.0, b/c all i've gotten back so far are C's! it's sickening how much time i spend studying but i'm not getting the results i deserve. but then it clicked, in my drowsy mind, that the key to my success will be flashcards! i only remember making flash cards back in elementary and some of middle school. using them to learn addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and i learned those well, so why not go back to the old school and break out those flash cards. and i know that i understand the information, it's just that when i test, i test badly, b/c i don't practice, i just read the facts and they're stored in my long-term memory. this is good, but i need to get those facts out quickly during test time. i need to exercise my phonological loop aka short memory. all of my classes require a lot of memorization, so i think this is the key: quizing myself daily on material learned that day so i don't have to cram it the day before and end up with C's. genius.

if anyone has some suggestions on how to improve my testing/studying, give em to me!

now, i'm off to work at the clinic.