Hi everyone, I'm about a month into dental school and currently drowning. It's a flipped classroom which I am not used to in any capacity and find myself never having enough time to finish prepping for classes. We have required videos and reading but I can barely make it through the videos for each day that I don't even get to the readings, and I haven't had time to review any of the concepts we have already covered. When it comes to my first exam in November, I have no clue when I'll find the time to review everything.
On the DAT I got a 25AA/TS and perfect bio score (although to this day I don't really know how). While I struggled (a lot) in undergrad, I definitely gained a bit of confidence from those test scores but have been quickly humbled by the insane workload thus far. We're not even in any dental classes yet as it is a med-integrated school. I also want to add that we are P/F, and I know I really shouldn't be stressing this much but after years of grinding to try and get A's I feel like if I don't know most of the information, I am essentially lost. We've had some quizzes and I've had quizzes where I only get 1 right and some where my highest grade is around an 85% to give an idea as to how I'm scoring on assessments.
I've tried asking people for advice, and they either tell me not to do the videos/prep or to just watch them but not take notes. I personally feel like not taking notes would cause me to lose my attention or forget what has already been said. I'm really open to any and all advice, though, because I have already had a few breakdowns and this is supposed to be the easiest part of dental school before our schedules get filled up even more. Oh, and not to mention I live about 30-40 minutes away from school so I spend about 2 hours each day going to and from class accounting for parking and walking time. Also, my biggest struggle seems to be anatomy. I absolutely hated it in undergrad as I hated memorizing all the different structures, so I'm really all ears in terms of finding new ways to learn the information or actually remember it and enjoy the class (at least somewhat). Really hoping for some sort of epiphany, or winning lottery numbers so I can drop out
On the DAT I got a 25AA/TS and perfect bio score (although to this day I don't really know how). While I struggled (a lot) in undergrad, I definitely gained a bit of confidence from those test scores but have been quickly humbled by the insane workload thus far. We're not even in any dental classes yet as it is a med-integrated school. I also want to add that we are P/F, and I know I really shouldn't be stressing this much but after years of grinding to try and get A's I feel like if I don't know most of the information, I am essentially lost. We've had some quizzes and I've had quizzes where I only get 1 right and some where my highest grade is around an 85% to give an idea as to how I'm scoring on assessments.
I've tried asking people for advice, and they either tell me not to do the videos/prep or to just watch them but not take notes. I personally feel like not taking notes would cause me to lose my attention or forget what has already been said. I'm really open to any and all advice, though, because I have already had a few breakdowns and this is supposed to be the easiest part of dental school before our schedules get filled up even more. Oh, and not to mention I live about 30-40 minutes away from school so I spend about 2 hours each day going to and from class accounting for parking and walking time. Also, my biggest struggle seems to be anatomy. I absolutely hated it in undergrad as I hated memorizing all the different structures, so I'm really all ears in terms of finding new ways to learn the information or actually remember it and enjoy the class (at least somewhat). Really hoping for some sort of epiphany, or winning lottery numbers so I can drop out