Quote from HewittI have a question about napping: What's more effective...
a) Study then sleep or
b) Sleep then Study
It's suppose to be study then sleep
Study Habits!
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Oct 1, 2014 10:24 AM #1248374
It's suppose to be study then sleep
Oct 1, 2014 10:28 AM #1248375
1.) Review everything taken up today
2.) Answer all homework given today
3.) Plan and schedule all projects ASAP
Lessens procrastination, worries, and anxiety. It takes discipline to do this though but once you get in the rhythm, you feel really good about it.
2.) Answer all homework given today
3.) Plan and schedule all projects ASAP
Lessens procrastination, worries, and anxiety. It takes discipline to do this though but once you get in the rhythm, you feel really good about it.
Oct 2, 2014 1:19 AM #1248612
Quote from HewittI have a question about napping: What's more effective...
a) Study then sleep or
b) Sleep then Study
My cousin actually does the latter, so he almost never "wakes up for school". He says thats when the brain works hard the most. It's unhealthy but does it really work?
I tend to think of sleep as a period where your brain forms neurons, develop, etc (I forgot where I learnt this from and I might be wrong). If you have too little, disrupted, or absolutely no sleep, your ability to retain new information would be hindered. You need to enter specific stages of sleep for the fore mentioned process to be most effective.
So lets say you have a dilemma of test tomorrow and you didn't prepare. You have zero knowledge of the content. For most of the day you are cramming like hell, but at night, do you continue or do you sleep? I suppose I never got into such situation so I wouldn't know, but what I assume is that you reach a point where memory retention asymptotes and memorisation becomes extremely ineffective.
As for morning classes, I'm kind of following the steps of your cousin. If I had the choice to either stay home, get my full 7 hours and catch up with my lectures via recordings, I would choose that every time. I'm unsure at what time of day your brain is most active, but I follow the belief that if you can't stay awake in class, then what is the point?
There's this video, that isn't sleep specific, but mentions the importance of breaks:
Oct 3, 2014 1:18 AM #1249011
Quote from Hewitt
What you are describing is not a study habit. It's procrastination. That's like saying you work hard to get paid by robbing banks. It's completely out of scope.
Well, yes you are right.
Quote from HewittYou may actually have study habits lest you would have already dropped out, but it's probably something you take for granted or don't notice. And if you legitimately already know or are smart enough, then you must have another way that knowledge is coming through you.
I don't think I've been able to develop my study habits much since I hardly 'study' in the traditional sense, anyway; which is why my post was so vague and short.
Oct 3, 2014 2:03 AM #1249056
If you "hardly study", I doubt that your post was a great contribution to a thread about study. "I'm just naturally good, therefore I can do all shit last minute". Not exactly good advice, more like patting yourself on the dick. And if you are "vague" and "short" about something, that is just telling me that you have nothing worth saying.
Your intention and message was exactly the same as Hatchet Haro, Youwishjellyfish, Miracle, except you wanted to be "clever" and find a way to get past Hewitt's warning. Please don't justify the stupidity of your post.
Your intention and message was exactly the same as Hatchet Haro, Youwishjellyfish, Miracle, except you wanted to be "clever" and find a way to get past Hewitt's warning. Please don't justify the stupidity of your post.
Oct 3, 2014 2:26 AM #1249075
That was a very informative piece on sleeping. I might try that since I'm taking nightschool and I have this sliver of free time after work before I hit the books. I'm just usually afraid I might never wake up again and waste the night.
I also like to reccomend that when you're tasked to read a shitload of stuff for the next lecture, that you jump around the middle and end before actually reading the article as a whole. It's helped me tons for reading 30-pages of textbook material (and the occsaional 30 more for supplemental reading) everyday. The strategy is to divide and conquer the text instead of taking it head on.
Also if one can find a way to immerse themselves in the subject their reading about, it would get them more interested in the text. Often asking yourself why you take x up and why its necessary can help your drive to muddle through the boring bits of your homework.
I also like to reccomend that when you're tasked to read a shitload of stuff for the next lecture, that you jump around the middle and end before actually reading the article as a whole. It's helped me tons for reading 30-pages of textbook material (and the occsaional 30 more for supplemental reading) everyday. The strategy is to divide and conquer the text instead of taking it head on.
Also if one can find a way to immerse themselves in the subject their reading about, it would get them more interested in the text. Often asking yourself why you take x up and why its necessary can help your drive to muddle through the boring bits of your homework.
Oct 3, 2014 2:31 AM #1249080
I recall there's a method on reducing your time asleep and still feel fresh upon waking up. I haven't tried it yet, but you could sleep for as short as 2-4 hours. However, is it worth the risk of having less 'repair time' for your body?
EDIT: I did some small research. I'm apparently talking about the Uberman schedule but I thought it was reducing the overall sleep, not simply break it down into sessions.
EDIT: I did some small research. I'm apparently talking about the Uberman schedule but I thought it was reducing the overall sleep, not simply break it down into sessions.
Oct 3, 2014 10:31 AM #1249217
This post is less about learning stuff and more about getting stuff done. Two months ago I was coming to the end of my masters degree and the last piece of work we had to submit was a 15,000 word dissertation. We played a game where one of the people in the class took pictures of everyone's work areas and uploaded them and then we had to guess whose was whose. I thought you guys might find it interesting to see the variety of techniques being used by people who have been in education for nearly two decades.
(One thing which is probably worth noting is that, with one exception, these places of work are all in the library where we could talk to each other about the stuff that we were doing. I sincerely recommend working in groups, even if you're all doing slightly different stuff (i.e. none of use were writing our dissertations on the same topic), especially for maths.)
The point is, you can do basically whatever you're comfortable with and still be successful. All of us now have masters degrees and three of us are working on PhDs (plus one doing an MPhil).
(One thing which is probably worth noting is that, with one exception, these places of work are all in the library where we could talk to each other about the stuff that we were doing. I sincerely recommend working in groups, even if you're all doing slightly different stuff (i.e. none of use were writing our dissertations on the same topic), especially for maths.)
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The point is, you can do basically whatever you're comfortable with and still be successful. All of us now have masters degrees and three of us are working on PhDs (plus one doing an MPhil).
Oct 4, 2014 1:03 AM #1249405
Quote from EnvoyIf you "hardly study", I doubt that your post was a great contribution to a thread about study.
Notice my wording, I said I hardly "'study' in the traditional sense", not "i dunt stoody but herz mi advice herp".
"I'm just naturally good, therefore I can do all shit last minute".
I didn't say that and never would say something like that.
And if you are "vague" and "short" about something, that is just telling me that you have nothing worth saying.
Vague and short relative to how I would describe anything else and to some other other posts on here.
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Your intention and message was exactly the same as Hatchet Haro, Youwishjellyfish, Miracle, except you wanted to be "clever" and find a way to get past Hewitt's warning. Please don't justify the stupidity of your post.
Really though, I meant the second part of my post (the part after the Hewitt quote) as a totally separate comment, which is why I said 'if I posted that' but, I didn't realize at the time that perhaps minor uses of wording to define my whole post could be overlooked. My mistake, my apologies. Thank you for calling it out.
Quote from ZedThis girl just turned up and got on with it
Pardon me but, do you mean to say that she got high before writing her dissertation?
Oct 6, 2014 4:48 PM #1250584
Quote from NaimadPardon me but, do you mean to say that she got high before writing her dissertation?
... I think you might be misreading something somewhere.
Oct 6, 2014 11:50 PM #1250686
You said she "'turned up' and got on with it" but, now I realize that's probably not the way you'd say it in Britain.
Oct 7, 2014 3:51 PM #1251075
Quote from HewittThat was a very informative piece on sleeping. I might try that since I'm taking nightschool and I have this sliver of free time after work before I hit the books. I'm just usually afraid I might never wake up again and waste the night.
I also like to reccomend that when you're tasked to read a shitload of stuff for the next lecture, that you jump around the middle and end before actually reading the article as a whole. It's helped me tons for reading 30-pages of textbook material (and the occsaional 30 more for supplemental reading) everyday. The strategy is to divide and conquer the text instead of taking it head on.
Also if one can find a way to immerse themselves in the subject their reading about, it would get them more interested in the text. Often asking yourself why you take x up and why its necessary can help your drive to muddle through the boring bits of your homework.
Do you do anything while you are reading? Highlight, make notes? Usually when I read, I feel like I'm not absorbing anything unless I process it over and over again. Hence I tend to read really slowly...