learning how to learn

i'm horrible at remembering facts (unless they have personal meanings to me). so i make up mneumonics. here are my current ones, trying to memorize 20 basic amino acids for my biochem class. feel free to pass them on to others who may be studying the same thing. sorry, you have to memorize the structures of R groups separately...!

aromatic R: "smelly are poop(phenylalanine) toot(tyrosine) toot(tryptophan)"

nonpolar-alipathic R: "gender queer bi is gay(glycine) pretty(proline) val(valine), lesbian(leucine) is(isoleucine) me(methionine)"

negatively charged R: "acidic ass(aspartate)-glue(glutamate)"

positively charged R: "basically, lying(lysine) and arguing(arginine) makes hysteria (histidine)"

polar, uncharged R: "polar bear is serious(srine) there's(threonine) cyst(cysteine) in ass(asparagine) and glute(glutamine)"