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[quillqueen]

Summarizing my discrete mathematics course before exams!

[super-space-time]

I found this in my developmental psychology textbook.

[grradical]

Seeing studies like this always make me want to scream at the people who say that men are naturally superior in science and mathematics and women are simply naturally oriented toward literature and history. Imagine if girls were just raised like boys and given the opportunities to be successful or encouraged to pursue STEM education. How much “smarter” would women be if we began the race at the starting line instead of 100 feet behind?

[quillqueen]

Some pictures from when I studied more mathematics the other day. I'm actually feeling really on top of my studies for now!

[chuteendormie-deactivated201706]

My new bullet journal from the first week of school! I’m so happy with the new layout that I’m using and I find this method to be the most efficient for me!!!

[sometimesistudy]

August 31st 2015

So I start uni tomorrow with a tutorial and a lecture, this is my new desk and set up and just doing a little assigned reading before tomorrow morning. 😊

[cornelldiary]

For some reason this is the first time I’ve come to this room to study

[collegerefs]

5 Tips for during an exam

If you have text anxiety, take the test backwards: I don’t know why, but this helps me a lot. Whenever I get really overwhelmed about a test, I’ll start at the end of the test and work my way to the front. For some reason this calms me down. 

If someone else in the class asks the teacher a question about the test, listen to what they’re saying: The person might be asking the same question you have and sometimes teachers unintentionally (or intentionally) give hints about the correct answer. 

Write down as much as you can remember as soon as you get the test: This is most helpful in math and science classes, but yes, if there is information on the top of your head that you think you’re likely to forget in a moment of panic, WRITE IT DOWN on the front of your test. 

If two multiple choice answers are opposites, the correct answer is probably one of the two: This is a trick I was taught in high school and so far it has proved to nearly always be true. 

For the love of god, write down SOMETHING even if you don’t know the answer: By writing something down you have a chance to guess correctly or to get some points for just attempting an answer. There’s nothing wrong with guessing. There have been tons of times where I was hesitant to guess and I missed points because I would have guessed correctly. 

[vietmother]

Study tips for lazy people, let's be real

I’m not saying you’re lazy but you’re human and you wear out quickly.

1. Take good notes the first time around. I see some people say rewriting them is a good way to memorize but let’s be honest, you’re not going to do that. Instead bite the bullet and do what you can the first time so you can read them later. It’s also just more time efficient. And don’t ask other people for notes, they’re not you and notes need to be personal to be effective. So don’t skip class too much.

2. You don’t need 100 different highlighters to be successful (but you can if you want). The key is keeping it succinct. Write down what your teacher says and find it later in the book. Read those passages a couple of times in your head and out loud to yourself to commit the info to memory. Honestly just highlight the key words so that when you see it on the test, the info connected to it floods back.

3. Use your phone to organize your shit. You always have it with you. God knows you ain’t gonna buy multi colored sticky notes and a $30 planner. And you might forget your textbooks and planner but not your phone.

4. Make a reasonable to do list you KNOW deep in your soul you can commit to. It’s a better motivator to see stuff get done than to see stuff not get done.

5. Try to get stuff done before noon. That’s my best advice. Early rise and early done makes you feel accomplished even if all you’ve done is read a few pages. This is probably the best time management advice I ever received in my life.

6. Don’t cram but if you have to get up and walk around to keep yourself energized.

7. Try to find a way to keep calm. You’re most likely not the type to plan every aspect down to the molecule or the type to be on top of everything. Things go awry, that’s just life. Find a way to fix your perspective on setbacks and failures so that it doesn’t ruin your future vision. This is personal so I can’t help you too much there.

[quillqueen]

150905: and of course I am ending the first week back in school with a hellish cold. Gonna try and treat it with multivitamins and tea and honey. :(

[quillqueen]

150904: No lectures today, so I rewrote my mathematic statistics notes from wednesday. I'm a pretty messy notetaker, so they went from 4 A4 pages down to 3 A5...

[prostheticfortheamputatedspirit]

[biisousss]

[frankfurter-studies-deactivated]

8-22 | 10:39 P.M What’s in My Bag There’s more in my pencil case but all the pens that are out go in the front pocket.

(& Yes, I carry this every day and yes it all fits).

[thatgirlwithabookandoatmeal-dea]

You carry your cat :o

[post--grad]

new bullet journal update! yes, I’ve been going a little overboard with the washi tape.

[quillqueen]

Last minute exam-studying, smart solutions for keeping the book open, and a cute study buddy.

[kartari]

how i organize, study, and manage my time

as a double major in chemical engineering and chemistry, i’d like to think i know how to do school. a lot of you responded positively to me wanting to create a detailed post about how i study and organize and manage my time so ta da here it is (this ended up being really long so i had to put in a read more break oops)

ORGANIZATION: 

i organize by using notebooks. as a STEM major everything i do is handwritten and i just prefer handwriting my notes versus typing them because i feel like i retain information better and its so much easier for me

for all my substantial classes that i know ill use a lot of paper for, i use a five subject notebooks from five star for each class:

with these, i can use a few sections for note taking and the remaining sections for exam prep (ill talk about that in a little bit)

i am VERY old school about note taking for my math and engineering classes, i don’t do any special color coding or anything because i find that i learn most through examples and it feels weird to color code examples. my math and engineering notebooks are very standard note taking:

if i know that one of my classes isn’t going to be very writing intensive, i use a smaller notebook and a folder for handouts:

it always helps to know what kind of class and what kind of professor youll be taking, so reading professor reviews on websites like ratemyprofessor and myedu are great because it’ll give you hints about what study materials to bring to class. reviews will say things like “professor gives lots of study guides and homework” so it may be in your best interest in bring a folder or binder to class to keep loose papers in.

for my chemistry classes, i get a little fancy with my note taking: 

i take notes as usual in a five star notebook, but i also create these study guides that are color coded and pretty to look at. i put these study guides in sheet protectors in a binder for safekeeping. these really really save so much time when im gathering my materials to study because everything important is right there in the binder in a clean and condensed form. this also really saves my back literally because i only have to carry one binder around to have all my study materials with me. 

i have individual 1.5 inch binders for all my classes to keep the syllabus, exam reviews, cheat sheets, and study guides all together in one place. i always organize things chronologically (just personal preference)

TIME MANAGEMENT:

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[coffeeforcollege]

Study tip:

Use 2 notebooks when taking notes: one for in class and one for copying the notes at home. The one in class, make it messy with add-ins, subtext, etc etc! Take down as much info as you can. Then, after class, take those messy, hard-to-read notes and re-copy them into your home notebook. These are the ones you study off of so make them neat and clear to understand!

[imogenasana]

This got me my degree haha