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You have exactly 5 seconds to click this link and start reading how to fix your procrastination urge.

Do it now, and you'll have applied the first tip already!

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TIP: How not to email your professor

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Suppose you fold a paper in half 103 times

Try folding a piece of paper 103 times; it would be thicker than the universe. At 42 folds you'd already reach the moon!

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Does Student Loan Debt Make People Less Happy and Healthy?

People with student debt report worse health and greater financial stress long after they finish their degree, a new study from Gallup shows.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-08-07/does-student-loan-debt-make-people-less-happy-and-healthy

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Do People Only Use 10 Percent of Their Brains?

[...] that humans "only" employ 10 percent of their brain. If only regular folk could tap that other 90 percent, they too could become savants who remember π to the twenty-thousandth decimal place or perhaps even have telekinetic powers.

Well, here's to the other 90%: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-people-only-use-10-percent-of-their-brains/

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In the US, “personalized learning” is what I think of as a head-nodder phrase. Sprinkle the word into virtually any conversation or speech regarding education, and you’ll typically see at least a handful of heads nodding in the room in happy agreement. While some might view this as positive...

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58 Cognitive Biases That Screw Up Everything We Do

We like to think we're rational human beings. 

But you are not. Really, not even close! Check out this overview of proven biases that cause you to think and act irrationally.

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If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.

Wilson Mizner

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De kogel is door de kerk: de studiefinanciering wordt vervangen door een leenstelsel. Wat gaat er voor studenten veranderen? Nou, iets met een schuld:

Je zult gemiddeld genomen 20 duizend euro gaan lenen. Je moet meer terugbetalen dan dat, want het bedrag is exclusief de jaarlijkse rente.

Lees de samenvatting: http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/5288/Onderwijs/article/detail/3663200/2014/05/28/Volgend-jaar-aan-het-studeren-Dit-gaat-er-veranderen.dhtml

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How to pin your teacher in the room

Use the Power of the Verplanck Effect:

Go to lecture one day and whenever the lecturer goes to one side of the room have everyone in the class smile. When the lecturer goes to the opposite side of the room, have everyone frown. Ideally, you can have a sort of “gradient” of smiles. More people smile as the lecturer gets closer to the area you want them in. By the end of lecture, the lecturer will be pinned to the side of the room that everyone was smiling at and not even realize it.

So, round up your mates and go go go: http://wxtp.wordpress.com/2014/04/21/interesting-pschological-experiment-verplanck-effect/

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Nieuwe feature: samen studeren met studiemaatjes!

Goed nieuws: je kunt nu samen studeren met StudyGrasp!

Voeg je studiemaatjes toe en je ziet van elkaar waar je mee bezig bent. Bijvoorbeeld als iemand een taak toevoegt, of wat je moet weten voor het tentamen. Handig om over te nemen en sneller een compleet overzicht.

Zo wordt studeren makkelijker en leuker!

Voeg snel je studiemaatjes toe op https://studygrasp.com/dist/#/account?tab=buddies

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Why spaced practice is more effective than massed practice

It appears that embedding new learning in long-term memory requires a process of consolidation, in which memory traces (the brain’s representations of the new learning) are strengthened, given meaning, and connected to prior knowledge—a pro cess that unfolds over hours and may take several days. Rapid fire practice leans on short-term memory. Durable learning, however, requires time for mental rehearsal and the other processes of consolidation. Hence, spaced practice works better. The increased effort required to retrieve the learning after a little forgetting has the effect of retriggering consolidation, further strengthening memory.

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Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted.

John Lennon

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Wat moeten we weten voor het tentamen?!

Je kent de vraag vast wel: wat moeten we weten voor het tentamen?! Met StudyGrasp weet je vanaf nu precies wat je moet weten én hoe je ervoor staat.

Ga naar het nieuwe onderdeel Kennis en maak je lijstjes aan. Zorg ervoor dat je alles in het groen krijgt en je bent 100% voorbereid op je tentamen.

Voorbeeld van een lijstje:

Zie in één oogopslag in je rooster hoever je bent met de voorbereiding:

Ga snel naar https://studygrasp.com/dist/#/knowledge en haal je tentamen.

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College instructor spent months teaching class the 'wrong' course

To find out that the instructor was teaching an advanced course instead of the advertised introductory course. At the end of the semester. Straight- A, 4.0 grade point average ruined.

http://www.khou.com/news/investigative/Student-claim-college-instructor-spent-months-teaching-them-wrong-course-252372411.html