Studying Thus Far
Medicine
For medicine, it's mostly memorization. As much as people say it relies on understanding, you have to, in some way, at the end of the day, still find a way to retain the comprehension of that certain concept, especially given how much information you're given in a short amount of time, and that's the most annoying part of medicine.
If you're not dumb sure you take only a bit to understand something but the next step to take is to connect it to other information, which honestly I'm too dumb to do most of the time. That would definitely help, but given how I already struggle with memory I should probably give myself some slack.
So far the First Aid definitely helps with big chunks of summaries, and Pathoma especially with pathology (it goes hand in hand with physiology!), and premade Anki decks save so so so much time in the long run, as much as their design is not optimal.
First Aid compared to the Indonesian medical standards - which might be updated soon or not I'm not sure - might probably be an overkill, or a miss-hit, especially considering both countries might have different disease demographic, but I find that a lot of the curriculum I was taught on have similarities to this approach, and I can no longer comprehend the slides of past lectures, so what better choice to I have?
Pathoma is a solid comprehensive overview of pathology, which helps me put phisiology into clinical prespective a lot. In a way it's like hitting 2 birds with one stone so I'm happy with it. The version I got was published a decade ago so some information is probably outdated or incomplete but that won't stop me from loving it because it's so comprehensive yet so brief and easy to comprehend.
The Anki deck I'm using is a mix of both books so I can't complain because making my own decks would waste more chunck of time than I already do, as inoptimal as the card design is but that's better than none - fragmented pieces of information sometimes followed by FirstAid caps that have barely relevant facts. Probably some unintentional connect-the-dots exercise.
The cards I'd personally make for myself consist of an image at the front cover instead of the back because memory relies on visuals a lot because I'm just a visual learner like that guy on X asking for you-know-what pics for the sake of education. A lot of my old self-made notes were so visual that all I used was this visual occlusion add-on on all screen-shot notes. No text whatsoever for searchability whatsoever, not even any tags. That's where these premade decks excel I guess - it's more organized and searchable.
I don't really tell my peers about this because they'd call me crazy but feel some inherent sense of FOMO that they'd be left no choice but to replicate me in some way like a creep, which happens too often so I'm letting the internet know instead. You'd expect at least more class from medical students but alas.
German
So far I've only been officially tested for A1, which wasn't so bad, but listening is hard if you're provided awful audio speaker in a class full of coughing attendees.
When it comes to languages, or at least I was told, you always want to start with listening because that's how you learn to develop an input in a certain language. Like, your brain immediately connects to that language without needing to first translate it into another language. That's also probably why, to an extreme, people would say you'd have to live by the language if you want to learnt the language.
Not all learning has to be coupled the language's vocabulary, grammar rules, and so on, especially if it becomes intuitive, but indirectly you always learn it even in your native language as you grow older. So that's why listening should probably always be coupled by other various exercises.
I could do something more intense, really. I feel like if I take this too leniently my dream of becoming bilingual might just become byelingual. Reading has been said to be the best way to pick up fluency, besides talking. Some of my internet browser language has been set to German, but eventually I got the gist of it without needing to understand the German, funnily.
Another thing I could do is unironically read Youtube comment sections or video transcripts, just rawdogging the entire thing until I actually understand what's going on, though I haven't got around to working on it because I've put it off for catching up with medicine. Eventually though.
Others
What I would actually like to learn would proably be finances or economics, philosophy, and theology, maybe research too.
Finances and economics are probably at the end of the day manmade concepts but with how erratic our world is becoming, I feel like it's a necessity to have some sort of financial literacy to make the right decisions with money, investments, loans, and so on. Grown up stuff.
Philosophy is essential to science. It teaches someone how to think, and it's the foundation of many modern knowledge, at least so I was told. I still think it should be an essential, like how classical music is the backbone to understanding modern music, and classical literature is the basis to modern literature, though I might be wrong on this.
Theology is honestly just beautiful. It's a wonderful effort to search for God through man's intellect. I have been told that faith in God should be like that of a child, pure simple faith and trust. As much as that probably holds truth, I feel like an effort and a desire to comprehend God to the best of our ability would be a beautiful way to make use of our ever so finite human intellect.
Though that's what I have so far. They all remain a wish of a silly grown up trying to make something.