Posts Tagged ‘studying’

Back to School: How to Graduate from College with a High GPA

I graduated from UC-Berkeley in December, 2000 with a far less than stellar GPA. But, I took everything I learned from my mistakes and guided my younger sister to graduating with honors in a much more challenging major. Looking back I really wasn't prepared for the challenges of college life and if I had been aware of the advice below, which I gave my sister before she entered college, I… Continue reading

September 14 2009 | By | Tagged: advice-for-students, back-to-school, college, school, student, studying, university | 22 comments»

Handwriting: A Skill For A Digital Age

It seems like those of us who spend most of our day at a computer are slowly losing those handwriting skills our elementary school teachers spent years drilling into us. More than anything else, it’s a matter of disuse: many people hardly ever write anything out by hand and, if they do, it’s a quick note meant only to last until the next time they’re at a computer.But good… Continue reading

April 22 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: handwriting, health, studying | 35 comments»

The Ultimate Student Resource List

It's back to school time, yet again. In the spirit of the season, I decided to gather together the best tools, websites, and advice I know of to help make you a more effective and relaxed student this semester. Since I know you're broke, it's all free!

10 Free Applications Every Student Needs

Unless you have money coming out of your ears, you probably won't want to shell out… Continue reading

January 23 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: college, research, student, studying, tool, web-app | 127 comments»

Literary Gluttony – How to Consume More Books This Year

Over 40% of Americans claim not to have read any books in the previous year. The survey was last conducted in 2002, and noted falling reading rates from previous years. I’m sure if you’re reading through lifehack.org that you probably don’t expect reading to stop after you graduate. Yet, with such dismal statistics, how can you beat the odds and read more books this year?Why Bother… Continue reading

January 8 2008 | By Scott H | Tagged: books, improvement, learning, Lifehack, new years resolution, read, reading, speed read, students, studying | 69 comments»

Advice for students: Staple!

There are many ways for students to annoy their professors: "Did I miss anything important?" (No, nothing like that happens in our class.) "Will this test affect my grade?" (No, not at all.) "What are your office hours?" (They're the first thing on the syllabus.) Most professors understand that such questions are harmless; few, if any, would give the responses I've imagined here.An annoyance that's less understandable is the… Continue reading

November 1 2007 | By Michael | Tagged: project, studying | 24 comments»

Advice for students: N’allez pas trop vite

My friend Stefan Hagemann has observed that so many students on a college campus seem to be elsewhere. As I walk around my university's campus, I understand what he means: phone conversations, text-messaging, and iPod management can take precedence over attention to one's surroundings. Even without the distractions of a gadget, the sidewalks and quads of a campus sometimes turn into nothing more than empty yardage to be traversed… Continue reading

October 4 2007 | By Guest | Tagged: college, student, studying | 11 comments»

10 Ways To Better Study Sessions

Study sessions can be a mess; even if you're not the gossipy, procrastinating type of student. All you guys have to be on the same page and in a good environment for study.A routine can help this tremendously, but there is more.Develop a standard notetaking method. Different students like different note taking methods. Whether you prefer mind mapping, Cornell notes, outline format, sentence format, or another method, find one… Continue reading

October 4 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: studying | 4 comments»

Writing and Remembering: Why We Remember What We Write

A few weeks ago I wrote a post on note-taking skills. One common experience many people have, and that several people mentioned in response to that post, is that when they take good notes they remember things well enough that they rarely end up having to look at their notes again.In fact, it seems that writing anything down makes us remember it better. On the other… Continue reading

September 28 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: brain, memory, notetaking, studying, thought | 31 comments»

Advice for Students: How to Read Like a Scholar

Gideon at Scholastici.us had some advice for students recently, saying that when it comes to scholarly reading, there really is no substitute for hard work, for actually sitting down and reading.Most the time in school what you need to do is very simple:Sit down with the book, a pen and paper, and perhaps a computer… And from that point, you read. That’s it. You go through and read… Continue reading

September 21 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: academic, college, education, reading, student, studying, university | 26 comments»

Advice for Students: Taking Notes that Work

Note-taking is one of those skills that rarely gets taught. Teachers and professors assume either that taking good notes comes naturally or that someone else must have already taught students how to take notes. Then we sit around and complain that our students don't know how to take notes.I figure it's about time to do something about that. Whether you're a high school junior… Continue reading

September 7 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: college, notes, notetaking, school, students, studying, university | 94 comments»

Advice for Students: Use a Wiki for Better Note-Taking

It's back to school time, and it's time to make good on the promises you made yourself last year to be more organized this time around! One of the stumbling blocks I see most often in my students is taking -- and keeping -- good notes for their classes. Ideally, you'd like to have notes on all your reading, as well as notes from lectures, and you'd like… Continue reading

August 22 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: notes, notetaking, students, study, studying, tool, web, web2.0, webtools, wiki | 42 comments»

7 Deadly Mindsets that Hold You Back from Learning Effectively

In this hyper-competitive global environment, there is no certainty. Only change is certainly there. An honors degree can no longer secure a high paying job for life. As a result, you are constantly going for courses, learning new stuff and upgrading your skills.This is a fast-paced world after all. You are faced with revolutionary changes and there’s so much to learn. This article will show you some of… Continue reading

June 21 2007 | By George | Tagged: learning, studying | 16 comments»

How To Study

The brain is a tangled web of information. We don't remember single facts, but instead we interlink everything by association. Anytime we experience a new event, our brains tie the sights, smells, sounds and our own impressions together into a new relationship.Our brain remembers things by repetition, association, visual imagery, and all five senses. By knowing a bit about how the brain works, we can become better learners, absorbing… Continue reading

May 14 2007 | By Kim | Tagged: brain, education, knowledge, learning, Lifehack, memory, mind, studying, tips | 27 comments»

In Search of Lost Time

My title comes from Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu, which concerns the effort to recover the past by reexperiencing it in memory and recording it in writing. I'm applying Proust's words (in translation) in a modest and specific way, to ask where the time of a semester goes. As my students always tell me, it goes quickly. I agree. Semesters seem to be made not of… Continue reading

May 7 2007 | By Guest | Tagged: Management, studying, time | 3 comments»

How to Ace Your Finals Without Studying

A smart productivity blogger, Scott H Young, shows you a way on getting good marks on your final exams without studying? Sounds like a pipe dream? He proves it is not.He states there is a learning style called holistic learning, which is an opposite approach to learning by memorizing and practicing by repetition and force (compartmentalized learning):Holistic learning takes an opposite approach. Learning holistically is not done by trying… Continue reading

March 27 2007 | By Leon | Tagged: book, exam, information, learning, studying | no comments»

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