hi! here are some online class study tips that have worked for me, so i wanted to share them with you guys!! online classes have been touuuugh, but weāll get through this together! :D
plan ahead.Ā a lot of my professors gave assignments earlier and gave us about a month to work on them. some of us might have the tendency to work on them later on, but working on them as soon as i can and finishing them 2 weeks earlier than the deadline gave me more time to work on bigger, more important projects. this can also give you more time to make changes to it when there are last minute requirements you have to include.
call your friends. when we went to school, we always looked forward to hanging out with our friends after being in class for hours. all that is painfully absent now, so i tried to compensate by calling my friends after classes or designating a specific day in the week where all of you are free and having a fun study session together.
change of scenery. being in the same space every hour of every day adds to the dreadfulness of it all, so having a change of scenery every once in a while can actually make you feel more energized. whenever i got the chance to go out to the park or the library, i would always take it. but!! adding some polaroids on your walls, changing your bed sheets, or even just studying in your dining room are also just as effective!
keep a water bottle next to you. itās so easy for us to forget to drink water as the day goes by. with this, having a water bottle next to you makes you want to reach out to it and drink water more frequently. not only does this keep you hydrated, but drinking water will also wake you up when youāre feeling snoozy in the middle of a class lecture!
have a group chat where u log productivity. my friends and i become motivated to work when we see that others are working, so we made a group chat where we logged tasks that weāve accomplished as the day goes by. aside from this, iām also part of a group in the focus to-do app where you can see other people working as well as how many hours theyāve worked during the day.
wear uv protection glasses. this is one of the most important things i learned during this whole online class experience. my eye grades went from 20/20 to 50/100 in the span of just a month and a half, and i had to get prescription glasses! donāt let online classes ruin your eyesight, people! learn from my experience :(
spread out your tasks. for some reason, professors have given us so much more assignments for online classes compared to when we were in the actual university. it can get quite overwhelming, but spreading out your tasks can help lessen the stress and pressure. i work on small tasks for a short period of time each day to make sure that iām able to get things done on time without feeling extremely tired. i actually made a post on this here! check it out if you want a more elaborate explanation for this part :)
listen to the live discussions. i used to zone out during synchronous sessions, talk to friends, or play games on my phone, thinking that i donāt have to listen now and that i can just rewatch it later. while being able to rewatch your professorās lecture is one of the pros of online classes, try to listen to your professorās live discussions as much as you can! it saves so much time and gives you the change to ask them questions during the lesson proper. if youāre able to understand the lesson during the session, youād be able to spend your extra time working on other assignments or doing things for yourself. however, there definitely are some classes wherein youād really have to repeatedly listen to the recorded sessions in order to fully understand the concepts, and thatās fine too! the point of this is to try and listen to the lesson as much as you can so you can spend less time on it later.
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