- College study tips.
- Study tips I learned in college.
- Some study tips for college,
or even for before college.
- So, the study tips I learned in college,
hmmm I never did learn many study tips.
I feel like I never figured it out,
four years, it was still kind of a lot
of figuring it out the whole time.
- Do it.
Actually study, that's the biggest thing is showing up.
- My favorite study tip isn't actually for studying,
'cause honestly I don't like studying that much.
It's to really pay attention in class
'cause you're forced to be sitting there,
so instead of typing on my laptop, doing other stuff,
I really tried to focus in on the teacher,
focus in on the content,
that way I didn't have to study as much later,
'cause honestly, not my favorite thing.
- I always studied in the library,
sometimes I tried to study in my dorm
and it never worked 'cause I got very distracted,
I always had roommates
and there were always more fun things to do.
- I am a big library person,
I think it's important to not be in your home space,
I think it was really helpful for me
to get out of that area
and be in a place where everyone else
is like heads down, focused.
- I actually really liked to study in my room,
I, you know, liked having my own desk
and all my stuff there.
I was probably less productive as a result,
but, you know, that way I had my own bathroom
and the comfort of all my stuff nearby.
But I'm a night owl, so I would basically
just stay up through the night if I had to.
I could not, if you had me set my alarm early
to get work done, I would just sleep right through it,
so I knew I had to, if I had to get work done,
it was gonna be an all-nighter no matter what.
- But in the library there's nothing more fun to do,
so you have to study.
- I love working in a quiet space,
so I would go to the most deserted spots on campus,
put on some headphones, and just kind of zone in.
Don't study in your bed, I always fall asleep,
or I get distracted, your phone's right there.
- I always find a little nook, that always helped.
- Sometimes I would go to the library
and find a really nice nook and try to set up there,
even though I think for me, the best thing would be
if I went, I had to find kind of an uncomfortable chair
because that way I wouldn't fall asleep
or slump backwards and then just end up not studying at all.
- So I think if you wanna study well,
sit up, or stand up if you have a standing desk,
maybe go somewhere around people
so you have other people around you,
you feel a little bit guilty checking Facebook,
checking Instagram, or TikTok,
I don't know is that what kids are doing these days?
- I always found it was helpful
to specifically parcel out time for different classes,
let's say I'm taking four classes
I would decide, all right, from 10 PM until midnight
I'm gonna work on just this one class,
and even if I don't finish the paper
or the task for that class,
at midnight I'm gonna move on to something else,
and I think that really helped
making sure that certain classes
weren't eating up time from other classes.
It also helps your brain I think
to shift over to another topic every once in a while.
- I think study groups were really helpful
depending on the class, but it was helpful
if there was ever a class that was really reading intensive
I found it really helpful to get together
with other people and talk about, you know,
different themes we picked up,
different ideas that we were having,
it's just kind of nice to talk things out sometimes.
- I also really liked to study with people,
so, you know, they kept me accountable,
if I had a friend in the class,
or if there were a group of people who I'd met in the class,
then I would probably meet up with them and study,
and honestly they would probably have a bunch of notes
I didn't even know about, so that was helpful.
- I had a couple study groups for certain classes,
particularly classes that I didn't feel as strongly in,
I'm not really necessarily a math person
but I had a statistics course and was able to put together
a great study group of some friends
where we, you know, had different strengths
and helped each other out.
I think those study groups are also really good
for very intense classes that had finals
that were very important.
- Get your study snacks ahead of time,
buy them in bulk, have them at the ready,
you never wanna run out of snacks when you're studying.
- One thing that was really great for me too,
I would write out everything, like all of my notes.
So I would go back, I would look at the notes
I had taken in class,
and then I would just re-write all of them,
and it actually ended up working out for me really well
because one of the professors I had for an econ class
kind of caught on that I was doing that,
and they actually started paying me
to re-write the notes and then upload them
to put on their database.
So, I kind of got paid to study, which was cool.
- I did a lot of color-coding.
I had a paper planner 'cause I'm old,
and I would color-code all of my classes,
both in terms of what was due on a given day,
but then I would also color-code
what I was working on on a particular night.
- Really being methodical and consistent
and taking a wide view about what you're month looks like,
and then planning backwards
so that you can be relaxed the night before.
- I also discovered that you can watch
a lot of recorded lectures of classes.
So I would watch them back in two times speed
so you cram it all in,
and often times that might be
the first time I was seeing it,
but that helped I guess review before the final test
or an exam or something like that.
- Coffee, I drank a lot of coffee.
- Well I also feel like, don't cram.
Cramming is just never gonna work,
it's better to just do a little bit of consistent studying
for however many weeks or days leading up to the test,
but I feel like that night before,
it's actually really good to just look over everything,
you know, but go to bed at a decent time,
get some sleep, drink water, eat a healthy meal,
you're not doing yourself any favors
if you're trying to cram the night before
because it's not gonna stick,
and then you're just gonna be exhausted
and hating your life.
Do it, study.
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