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Pulled my first college all nighter last night.
Posted on 11/30/15 at 7:16 am
Posted on 11/30/15 at 7:16 am
Two papers due today. I promise to never wait to the last minute again. Ahh probably wont happen but I can hope to use some sense next time.
Posted on 11/30/15 at 7:20 am to Rayburn8
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I promise to never wait to the last minute again.
Famous last words. Especially if you're an underclassmen.
Posted on 11/30/15 at 7:44 am to Rayburn8
What you actually mean is "if both of these papers receive decent grades I will never work ahead of time for the rest of my college career"
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Posted on 11/30/15 at 8:19 am to Rayburn8
Made it through 4 years and never had to pull an all nighter for school work. I made sure to never study or do any work after midnight.
Posted on 11/30/15 at 8:41 am to pvilleguru
I never studied at all and college and made a 35 on the ACT.
Posted on 11/30/15 at 8:43 am to Rayburn8
Nothing good happens after 2am
Posted on 11/30/15 at 8:59 am to Agforlife
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Nothing good happens after 2am
i had a similar saying in college but it was something like nothing you study is remembered after 1 AM.
Posted on 11/30/15 at 9:05 am to Rayburn8
I was the king of all nighters when you could still buy mini thins at every gas station and drug store in town (I is old). I'd crash for a complete day after pulling one. If I was writing papers, I'd generally get C's on papers that would have been easy to get A's on. If I was studying for a test, what should have been A's were B's or C's.
Treat school like a job: between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on weekdays, if you're not in class, be somewhere doing classwork or studying (i.e. library) with your phone shut off. You'll be happier and healthier, make better grades, and have very little, if any, course work to do on weekends. Unfortunately, it took me until post-grad to figure this out. When I did figure it out, my grades reflected it.
Treat school like a job: between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on weekdays, if you're not in class, be somewhere doing classwork or studying (i.e. library) with your phone shut off. You'll be happier and healthier, make better grades, and have very little, if any, course work to do on weekends. Unfortunately, it took me until post-grad to figure this out. When I did figure it out, my grades reflected it.
This post was edited on 11/30/15 at 9:17 am
Posted on 11/30/15 at 9:07 am to 3nOut
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i had a similar saying in college but it was something like nothing you study is remembered after 1 AM.
I can write a paper at the last minute, but studying was pretty much futile if I waited until the day/night before.
Posted on 11/30/15 at 9:15 am to DownSouthJukin
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I was the king of all nighters when you could still buy mini thins at every gas station and drug store in town (I is old). I'd crash for a complete day after pulling one. If I was writing papers, I'd generally get C's on papers that would have been easy to get A's on. If I was studying for a test, would should have been A's were B's or C's.
Treat school like a job: between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on weekdays, if you're not in class, be somewhere doing classwork or studying (i.e. library) with your phone shut off. You'll be happier and healthier, make better grades, and have very little, if any, course work to do on weekends. Unfortunately, it took me until post-grad to figure this out. When I did figure it out, my grades reflected it.
Thanks for the advice man.
Will try, there are just a lot of distractions nowadays. I have never been good at studying.
This post was edited on 11/30/15 at 9:19 am
Posted on 11/30/15 at 9:18 am to DownSouthJukin
This is very good advice. Too bad I didn't figure it out until my last year. But that ended up being my best year with one of my tougher loads.
Posted on 11/30/15 at 9:33 am to Rayburn8
I actually liked pulling all nighters after my freshman year. Obviously I had substances that helped but it became almost fun and not a big deal. Cramming was not hard once you figured out the best way to do it.
I liked to type all my notes then go through the text book and type everything notable in there. Then print it out and study that.
Typing your study material definitely reinforces your knowledge(at least for the short term, haha)
I liked to type all my notes then go through the text book and type everything notable in there. Then print it out and study that.
Typing your study material definitely reinforces your knowledge(at least for the short term, haha)
Posted on 11/30/15 at 9:35 am to Rayburn8
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. I promise to never wait to the last minute again
This won't be the last time you say this.
It's like after a night of getting way too drunk and you say you're never drinking alcohol again. Then 2 days later, you're at the bar pounding drinks again. Man I miss college.
Posted on 11/30/15 at 9:47 am to Rayburn8
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Will try, there are just a lot of distractions nowadays. I have never been good at studying.
There were a lot then, too: drinking buddies, fishing, hunting, golf, womenrz... if you spend more time studying for 4 years, you'll get a lot more time to do those when you graduate, and a lot more $$$ with which to do them.
School came easy to me... too easy. I thought I could skip class all semester, rely on others' notes, then waltz into a class for an exam with barely studying and after staying up all night. That worked for a couple of semesters and I skated by on C's and B's. When I got into my 300 and 400 level classes, I damn near failed out, and barely got out of undergrad with a C+ average.
I had as much fun in post-grad because the guys I hung out with all treated school like a job, and after 5:00 p.m., we'd knock off, cook out, drink beer, and chase women, use our weekends to fish, hunt and golf, etc., but we'd have our asses in class or the library at 8:00 a.m. every single week day. I graduated post-grad with an A average. Unfortunately, I had to pay $100,000 for all of my post-grad, when a scholarship was easily obtainable if I would have held an A-B average in undergrad.
$100,000 buys a lot of guns, fishing tackle, golf clubs and... you get the picture.
Anyway, that's enough from this old man. and good luck!
This post was edited on 11/30/15 at 1:22 pm
Posted on 11/30/15 at 10:45 am to Rayburn8
Prepping for exams was always easy for me because I:
1. Attended every class;
2. Took good notes from the lectures;
3. Read all assignments and did all exercises;
4. Got a good rest the night before the exam.
To make papers easier, I chose topics of interest and read other papers similar to the one I was doing.
Good luck going forward in your studies. Enjoy college. It flies by so fast.
1. Attended every class;
2. Took good notes from the lectures;
3. Read all assignments and did all exercises;
4. Got a good rest the night before the exam.
To make papers easier, I chose topics of interest and read other papers similar to the one I was doing.
Good luck going forward in your studies. Enjoy college. It flies by so fast.
Posted on 11/30/15 at 1:00 pm to DownSouthJukin
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I was the king of all nighters when you could still buy mini thins at every gas station and drug store in town (I is old). I'd crash for a complete day after pulling one. If I was writing papers, I'd generally get C's on papers that would have been easy to get A's on. If I was studying for a test, what should have been A's were B's or C's. Treat school like a job: between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on weekdays, if you're not in class, be somewhere doing classwork or studying (i.e. library) with your phone shut off. You'll be happier and healthier, make better grades, and have very little, if any, course work to do on weekends. Unfortunately, it took me until post-grad to figure this out. When I did figure it out, my g
Disregard this entire post. If you want to make excellent grades, then read it. If not, you are only in college once, take advantage of it. Most important thing is get that sheet of paper but also have fun.
Posted on 11/30/15 at 1:09 pm to Kentucker
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1. Attended every class;
2. Took good notes from the lectures;
3. Read all assignments and did all exercises;
4. Got a good rest the night before the exam.
My routine usually went, do 1-4 before I took the first exam. I'd then ace the first exam and decide the class must be "easy," so I didn't really need to attend it. Proceed to bomb subsequent exams and piss off teacher for not attending class.
About midterm, rally, get my shite together, and end up with a decent grade in the class.
My main problem with schoolwork, now, is how much of it is done on the computer and what an awful source of distraction a computer can be.
When i have concrete tasks in front of me (finish this spreadsheet, create this organizational chart, etc..) then the compuuter is fine. But when I have a more nebulous task in front of me (create a unit of study, work on this article, etc..) requiring outside the box thinking and such, then the computer as a source of distraction really crops up.
This post was edited on 11/30/15 at 1:12 pm
Posted on 11/30/15 at 4:29 pm to hogfly
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1. Attended every class;
2. Took good notes from the lectures;
3. Read all assignments and did all exercises;
4. Got a good rest the night before the exam.
My routine usually went, do 1-4 before I took the first exam. I'd then ace the first exam and decide the class must be "easy," so I didn't really need to attend it. Proceed to bomb subsequent exams and piss off teacher for not attending class.
About midterm, rally, get my shite together, and end up with a decent grade in the class.
My main problem with schoolwork, now, is how much of it is done on the computer and what an awful source of distraction a computer can be.
When i have concrete tasks in front of me (finish this spreadsheet, create this organizational chart, etc..) then the compuuter is fine. But when I have a more nebulous task in front of me (create a unit of study, work on this article, etc..) requiring outside the box thinking and such, then the computer as a source of distraction really crops up.
All of this.
Posted on 11/30/15 at 7:33 pm to hogfly
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the computer as a source of distraction really crops up.
Yes, it's a double-edged sword. The computer offers access to the world's knowledge but also to every imaginable distraction.
I don't have any advice for you on dealing with that. It's very distracting for me, too.
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