Whenever I am asked to disclose the secret behind my success, I find myself talking about flashcards.
They say you never forget your first time. It’s true. And I will never forget the first exam for which I used flashcards to prepare. It was way back in 2007, just before the first iPhone debuted and long before I had discovered online flashcard systems. I was in my second semester at the University of Texas, getting ready to sit the first examination in Introductory Biology, Part Two. I had made it through the first semester in tact, and felt excited about my progress toward this far-off-in-the-distance goal of becoming a doctor. But the pace was starting to pick up, and I was drowning in reading assignments and learning objectives. How was I ever going to keep up with all of this information? I wondered.
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