#procrastination tip

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Procrastinating?

As soon as you receive an assignment, get to work. The beginning is the hardest part. Whether it be an outline for an essay, the first question on your maths homework, or texting your lab partner to organize a study meeting. Take 5 minutes, and just begin. This makes it a lot easier later on when you're ready to "start" because you're actually just continuing where you left off.

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Procrastinating writing your paper? Try this.

Sometimes when we have a daunting paper to complete, we tend to procrastinate. I find that once I begin, the words flow easily. The blank page curse. It may feel natural to start from the beginning, but I challenge you instead, to start from the middle. Create a general outline for your paper by writing one rough draft topic sentence for each paragraph, then pick any paragraph you like, and begin! It's much better to start on the part you feel is the most difficult and get it out of the way, or, to banish the blank page curse, start with the easiest, the one you are most knowledgeable about. When you start with the introduction, you are giving an overview of a paper you haven't written yet! This can be a challenge because you may add or remove pieces later, and for many of us, we may not even fully know what our paper is about! How could we possibly introduce it!

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Unconventional Studying Tip

I noticed during a tutoring session today a lot of people have trouble finding relevant information from the textbook. The index and glossary are your friends! Of course it would be ideal if you read through your chapters, highlighted or took notes but I know that isn’t always feasible. If you need to study quickly, or finish a study guide for an exam, the index or glossary is the fastest way to find exactly what you need without having to skim through the text itself!

Find both of these at the very back of your book where some other helpful information might reside.

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Procrastination Tip

Hey! Do you want to procrastinate while also being productive? Then go onto http://www.galaxyzoo.org/ and classify galaxies. Your results are used by astronomers and sometimes you get to see really pretty galaxies (tbh most of the time they are not v pretty blobs)