When quarantine started, I had a really tough time adjusting my day to online classes. I am generally a person, that needs human interaction and discussion to learn and process new things, so especially when the new semester started and the lockdown came, I was quite disoriented. I simply did not know how I should structure my day now and all of my normal motivation was gone.
For a few weeks, I struggled to get up and do my coursework, especially with exams coming up. Procrastination was real.
After I few weeks (when the exams came nearer and nearer) I finally developed a working routine and managed to integrate some habits, that really helped me through. I will 100% integrate them in the next semesters when uni will open again.
So here are the tips and habits, that really helped me push through exams and my coursework:
First of all: every one of us is different and everyone studies differently. These tips might help you, but studying is a very individual thing. Just because these worked for me, does not mean they will work for you.
Find a time, in which you are not distracted or super tired
It is really important, that you find a time at home, in which you can work properly. If you have kids around, maybe nighttime or early in the morning is a better time to do your coursework
If you are an absolute night person, study at night and sleep in - not everyone has to catch the worm in the morning.
Find a space designated to your work
Your bed or your couch are probably not the best place to do your coursework - find a place where you can concentrate and where you have everything available that you need - also enough space has its perks
It is okay, to be lazy. It is okay to take time off. You just need to know when to start again. Donât put too much pressure on yourself - these are extraordinary circumstances
Make. a. plan.Â
Or a to do list. I know, you probably heard that one before but it is really great to know where you stand and have a rough orientation what you have achieved! It really helped me to cross off my to do lists and see that I am doing something productive!
Find a routine and stick to it!
You are laying in bed all day, because you canât get out? Just do it and find a comfortable routine to which you will also stick! It does not make any sense to say, that you will get up at 6 oâclock everyday when you know that you will be disappointed anyways because you canât stick to it.
Use the 80% rule
Say you studied 10 hours at monday. At tuesday, you have to study at least 80% of the time, you studied at monday: 8 hours. In that way, you will have a goal towards which you can work for day to day.
Find a study buddy
It really helped me to communicate with my friends. You can rant about professors, discuss the topics and generally just help out each other. You can do study sessions (virtually or when lockdown ends in person) and just lift each other up
Efficiency:
Be efficient. Donât waste time on beautiful notes, if you arenât even a visual learner. Just find the most effective way to get through your stuff without loads of unnecessary and time consuming ways, just to make your notes prettier.Â
Last but not least: find a balance
In the studyblr culture it often time seems, that everyone is hustling and studying is their life essence - yes it is great to be passionate about the things you learn but you definitely need something else: it does not matter if itâs books, movies, cooking or sports. Find something that makes you happy and donât waste all of your time stressing about things that canât be changed.
I hope these tips will help you get through further lockdown and maybe some of you will have a better time studying <3
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