Saturday, October 2, 2010

Study hack

For my first real post on my new blog i thought i might start with something that i myself should do more often.

Some school/education hacks

Easy sources for your assignment
When you have to write one of those long boring research papers - involving much of your time looking through old books in the library, fruitlessly searching the net etc etc do yourself a favor and find one strong source that directly pertains to what you're doing and than use the sources cited as your bibliography/way to locate new sources - sources of Wikipedia work pretty well also

Need extra time?
Spent too long playing games rather than doing your work? well there is a way that could potentially buy you that bit of extra time to actually finish. When handing in your work grab a JPG, Mps or some other media file and rename it MYASSIGNEMT.doc and send it away. The "assignment" will look "corrupt" and providing your teacher/lectura isn't a complete dick - it should buy you a day or two.

Lost USB?
it sometimes helps to put an "identification" or something of the likes on your flash drive; include all the contact information the person who finds it needs to get it back to you. However most of the time they will just keep it ;l

Another good tip
Another good tip is to keep yourself motivated. A good way of doing this is by telling your friends that you're going to do it by a certain time date whatever; the fear of looking like an ass if you don't should help keep you on track. oh and you wanna succeed in life blah blah blah

Sleep
Before you walk into that final exam get a good nights rest - all the cramming in the world isn't going to help you if you have no idea what you're doing the night before, might as well catch up on some sleep? oh and having a fully rested brain will help with your long term memory, cognitive skills etc etc

4 comments:

  1. That second one is a really good idea.

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  2. i lose my USB drives all the time- i recently found one of them after about 9 months of it been missing- so many old files saved! it had all of my undergrad work and some drawings i was glad to have it back

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  3. Thanks this really helped!

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