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MEGA - Studying, Exams, Stress, and coping with them

i have 2 midterms this week..... business management and psych midterms... :( i gotta lay off the partying a little bit i guess
 
Now it's finals hell (my school is on the quarter system, so an academic term lasts two and a half months)... But I just caught up on all my work. It's my poor attendance now that's going to get me low grades, but unfortunately it's much harder to make up absences :(
 
study strategies that don't work!

Everyone should donate a strategy that doesn't work - this could be really useful for kids that are new to college or coursework that requires studying. Considering it's on bluelight, we have the added benefit of covering the drug-related strategies that don't work.

Mine is studying until 4 am for a test that takes place the next day in the early afternoon, stopping to go to bed for a short nap under the rationalization that "I will set my alarm for 6 am, wake up, and study for another x hours." Never have I not slept until just before the test when using this strategy.
 
Drinking alcoholic beverages before studying then before your test. My psych professor used this example in her memory lecture and I just had to give it a go.
 
Study strategy that does not work...

Not turning up to class for the first 7-8 weeks of semester then attempting to cram everything in in the last couple of weeks while trying to maintain a healthy GPA...

Attempting to write an assignment that is due on Monday on Sunday morning after staying out til 5am on pills Saturday night.

Drinking 5 red bulls because "they help me focus..."
 
Waiting until the weekend to work on something that's due on Monday if you have a resource center available to help you. (e.g. needing help on math problems that student volunteers can help you with any day but Saturday and Sunday).
 
Fuck aderall. It just makes me smoke a lot of cigarettes and talk to as many people as possible who are also on aderall and smoking cigarettes (permanently on the steps of the library).
 
Putting things off and then pulling all-nighters if you tell yourself "oh, I'm pulling an all-nighter, I can fuck around" and then you go and get stoned or waste some time on the internet.

If you are going to pull an all-nighter, give yourself deadlines to finish things throughout the course of the night. Good luck.
 
^ Schedules.

Some people seem to be able to make plans and follow them.

For others, timetables, deadlines, calendars, and plans are meaningless. If I try to plan out my studying, I find myself making it a point NOT to follow the plan.
 
Jamshyd said:
^ Schedules.

Some people seem to be able to make plans and follow them.

For others, timetables, deadlines, calendars, and plans are meaningless. If I try to plan out my studying, I find myself making it a point NOT to follow the plan.
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Same here. I fill out my planner everyday when I'm at school, and I never follow it.
 
my only successful all-nighters were done with the assistance of heavy opiates. for some reason when im really doped up, i can concentrate for hours and hours and stay up all night too.
 
I used to be a big fan of hydromorphone for studying. Made me so damn cheerful and euphoric. Yeah, opiates in general keep me up. I can't understand people that take them and fall asleep. The buzz keeps me excited and awake better than any amphetamine could. I think that on opiates it's more realistic to learn, whereas on amphetamines I just buzz through everything without really remembering (even though it feels productive).
 
captainballs said:
Fuck aderall. It just makes me smoke a lot of cigarettes and talk to as many people as possible who are also on aderall and smoking cigarettes (permanently on the steps of the library).
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Your not fucking kidding CapnBalls.
It is kind of cool bumping into other people on addy on campus because you can instantly tell who's fired up and who isn't. And then you talk about nothing for like 2 hours until you start to crash.
 
Just reading the book/notes by yourself. That doesn't do me any good AT ALL.

Instead you should have someone there with you to go keep you focused and take lots of aderol. Actually going to class helps too
 
A strategy that does work for me: going to the library to do work. its boring there, so the only thing i can really do is my work. plus the internet connection at my library is pretty shifty, so i cant fuck off on bluelight or looking up random unimportant stuff.


A strategy that doesnt fuckin work:

waiting until the last minute to do something, then end up giving up because its just too late to get anything really productive done. feeling like shit about it the next day, while getting an F.
 
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