re: Pulled my first college all nighter last night.

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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.

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