How To Study

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Our brains create engrained memories through repetition. The more times we hear, see, or repeat something to ourselves, the more likely we are to remember it.
Create the Right Environment
. For an optimum learning environment, you’ll want to find a nice spot that is fairly peaceful. Some people can’t stand a deafening silence, but you certainly don’t want to study near constant distractions.
Use Acronyms to Remember Information
An acronym is simply an abbreviation formed using the intial letters of a word. These types of memory aids can help you to learn large quantities of information in a short period of time.
Listen to music.
Rewrite your notes.
Engage Your Emotions.
Fortunately, you can use the power of emotion in your own study sessions. Enhance your memory by using your five senses. Don’t just memorize facts. Don’t just see and hear the words in your mind. Create a vivid visual picture of what you are trying to learn.
Make Associations.

Advice for Students: 10 Steps Toward Better Research

1. Schedule! Write up a schedule with a series of milestones to accomplish by a specific date
2. Start, don’t end, with Wikipedia. The goal here is to get a good overview of the subject you’re writing about, and Wikipedia is far better for that than most print sources,
3. Mine bibliographies. . You can usually skim through the bibliography and note down anything whose title sounds relevant to your research.
4. Have a research question in mind
keep focused by working towards an answer to your research question.
5. Deal with one piece at a time
6. Use a system. Start your research with an idea of how you plan to collect and organize your notes and data. make sure that every quote, fact, and thought is tied in some way to its source
7. Know your resources. Spend some time getting to know what resources, both online and offline, your library to offer.
get to know the research material you can access from home
8. Ask for help Most librarians will be happy to help you find relevant material for your project, and some will even locate specific pieces of hard-to-find information for you.
9. Carry an idea book Keep a small notebook and a pen with you everywhere
10. Bring it up to date. Google the major researchers whose work you’ve found and see if you can find their homepages

Advice for Students: How to Write Research Papers that Rock!

Write about something you’re passionate about.
. If you”re an accounting major… change your major. No, just kidding — if your major is accounting and you have to take literature,
Write a strong thesis.

1. Challenge a misconception: Use your paper to challenge the received wisdom, the stuff “everybody knows”. E.g. “Lots of people think [A] but really [not-A]”
2. Find an unlikely connection: Use an idea from science to illuminate a concept in literature, or vice versa. For example: “Neils Bohr’s theory of the structure of the atom provides one way of looking at the relationship between Hamlet and the play’s secondary characters.” The idea here is to find a surprising new way of looking at or thinking about a concept.
3. Rehabilitate a villain. Defend a historical personage or literary character widely assumed to have been “a bad guy”. The biologist Steven Jay Gould was a master of this, writing about people generally portrayed as the enemies of scientific progress — Lamarck, Bishop Usher, Pope Urban VIII — as exemplars of the cutting-edge science of their day. Make your reader take an unfairly (or even fairly) maligned character or person seriously. (Note: I’d avoid using this approach for Hitler; no matter how well you write, it’s unlikely anyone will appreeciate your efforts to make Hitler seem like a good chap.)
4. Reframe a classic work in light of today’s technology, social structure, or culture. What kind of woman would Cinderella or Jane Austen’s Emma be in today’s corporate world? What could Newton or Julius Caesar have done with a MacBook Pro?
5. Reframe today’s world in light of the technological, social, or cultural context of a classic. What would Julius Caesar think of Jack Welch or Bill Gates? What would Johannes Kepler make of string theory? What would Jane Austen think of today’s career woman?

Use yourself as a source. Use your own life experiences to illustrate the points you’re making.
Consult the experts. The Internet makes it possible to directly reach people we’d have never thought possible even a decade ago. Google the leading voice in the field you’re writing about: a professor of chemistry at MIT, a leadership guru, a corporate anthropologist at Intel, and so on — chances are you’ll come across an email address
Choose your audience. Never, ever, write only for your professor. Write as if you were explaining your topic to a friend or family member, or to the President of the United States.

How to study with a full-time job

Split up the reading
Split up you reading into weekly intervals. I recommend doing this as soon as you get your materials.
Rip the shrink wrap off the book and calculate how many days you have and how many pages you must read in order to finish the book. I recommend creating a weekly reading schedule, writing it down, and posting it publicly
There’s nothing more irritating motivating than hearing your loved ones
Maximize your commute
Most adults in the US have a commute of over 20 minutes. I would venture to say that most commutes are closer to an hour each day
! Most textbooks come with an audio CD that never even gets taken out of the package.
Also, if any of your materials come in a digital format (PDF, Word Doc, etc.) you should convert these documents into audio files, and listen to them during your commute.
Sneak it in
Try keeping some review materials on you at all times
— even if it is something as simple as a note card with review concepts on it.
These include waiting in a doctor’s office, walking to the car, waiting at line in the grocery store, waiting to pickup your kids, etc. You might as well leverage these times to study.
Multi-task
cooking dinner, working out, going to the bathroom, etc.. When I was paying attention, I was surprised by how many tasks throughout the day that were perfect for multi-tasking.
Make one sacrifice per day
In order to complete your course you’re going to have to make some sacrifices. I found it more beneficial to sacrifice tasks that only affected me, like watching my favorite TV shows, instead of sacrificing time with my family, friends, and girlfriend.
Create a planned cram
The day (or week) before your exam you’ll likely start to feel rising levels of stress.
clear your head, and give you the opportunity to brush up on some of the material that you may have been brushing off.
Conclusion

Some days will be easier than others. The coursework you’re studying will be difficult, but don’t let the difficult days be representative of the good days

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