• Life Advice & Visual Arts Welcome Guest
    Posting Rules Bluelight Rules
    🌌 Share Your Dreams! 🌌
    📸 15 Years of Photo Contests 📸
  • LAVA Moderator: Shinji Ikari

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

last minute work sucks. i thought it works until i handed in my dissertation late last year (thankfully, they decided to overlook it, but that was sheer luck; and i could have handed in a much better work with an earlier and more concentrated effort).

lol at me writing this on bluelight, while i should prepare my presentation for tomorrow. bah :p
 
THE WOOD said:
IMO im a C grade student that deserves A's!!!!

I have a nack for taking a 2 month project and doing the entire thing in one night, and getting a C. IMO thats pretty impressive since a lot of ppl in my classes will work on projects for weeks and get B's or low A's. If i actually did shit when I was supposed to id probably have a 4.0. But ya know, smoking pot and drinking booze is a lot cooler than schoolwork that can be put off untill tomorrow! And the next day! And the day after that!
Click to expand...

I like your style! Why prepare for the in-class essay I got Friday when I can pop percocets, smoke joints and listen to Nevermore! ;)

Luckily I don't have many large essays or projects for my classes this semester.
 
dreamgirlie19 said:
Right now Im supposed to be working on two different two page papers but instead im on BL, cooking dinner and reading a gossip magazine.
Click to expand...

if it's only dinner time, you're not procrastinating yet (assuming the papers aren't due at night.)

i'm really into doing things the morning of...the problem comes when i get up early, go to the dining hall, and then go on BL or AIM instead of doing my work...like now:\
 
Cuz it's CAD man! Who the fuck cares about CAD! (I don't know what CAD is)
 
I'm making up an interview of someone who I have never met so I can write a feature article about "him" for my journalism class.

Due tomorrow.

Internet checkers, you will be my downfall.
 
i'm procrastinating right now and it sucks
i hate how when procrastinating, the neuroses over how i must get the dreaded assignment done ruins whatever else i am doing
 
currently reading bluelight instead of writing a rough draft of a 6 page essay pointing out the flaws in the war on drugs. and it was due last thursday lol.
 
rashandreflex said:
i'm procrastinating right now and it sucks
i hate how when procrastinating, the neuroses over how i must get the dreaded assignment done ruins whatever else i am doing
Click to expand...


yeah your not really enjoying procrastinating.... you wanna do your shit.... but you just CANT godammit!!!:X :X :X
 
Yes, it's basically a form of retardation, caused my the government. Or The Man, as it were. I'm sure of it. I'll prove it to my professor; once they allow telepathy into the curriculum.
 
Let's see, registering and reading hundreds of topics on a new forum when I should start studying for my Japanese History midterm tomorrow? Heh, I fit right in with this thread =)
 
I'm shocking at procrastination. I have nearly completed my degree. I am in the honours society, deans merit list etc,. I can face an exam, bring it on!!!!!!!! But essays, oh my god, I make myself sick with neurotic anxiety, even though I always get HD's or D's. I've had this problem throughout my academic career. I love researching, planning and all the preparation, it's when I get to actually write th essay that my neurotic fear of failure, high achiever complex takes me over and I end up doing all nighters in a total anxiety state. This has been an ongoing pattern throughout my degree, and I really want to address and resolve it because my anxiety is completely ridiculous and has no logical basis.
Does anyone have any tips to help me deal with this. I only have 3 subjects to complete, but the psychological toll my academic life takes on me is ridiculous. I'm in line for a research honours degree and i have to sort out my neuroses before I go onto higher degrees. Thing is I work full time, totally self sufficient blah blah.
I could really do with some advice
 
I procrastinate quite a bit unless it's a project I'm really into, or group work where we have to schedule to meet.

I've gotten better at concepts this semester since I force myself to concentrate on it for a small amount of time. Drawing out ideas for 30 minutes straight gets all the crap out and some potential on paper. A few hours goes by and I do another 30 minutes of the same and eventually i end up with (hopefully) 10-15 concepts with some potential. It's when I have to start modeling that I get worse because it always takes longer than I think.

My major is communication design & technology which is a mix of comp sci and communication design, but I'm also in a product design class.
 
memory techniques? what exactly are you asking?

As it goes for all studying... if you spread out studying for a few days, rather than mass it all together, you're going to retain more information.

Maintenance Rehearsal (repeating the information, re-reading it) is not nearly as effective as elaborative rehearsal (making connections to other things while studying). Try making mental images about what you're trying to learn, in relation to other things. If you need more help, create strange situations for each part ("the dog chewed through the man's radius") and it should help you remember better.
 
someone was saying on this forum to use amphetamines never tryed it but ketamin is funny as fuck in an exam-don't know if it will help tho!
 
I would seriously ask all of you to try to correct this habit now...

I was gonna make a post asking for tips against procrastination, I sailed through all my academics just winging it (not too badly I must say). That was fun and meant I got to sautee my brain, but I am paying the consequences now.

I've been seriously working for about 6 months now, and I can't for the life of me get into the rhythm of time management!!! I'm so used to just going on my own schedule and putting things together only when I really must. I'm in a leadership position and I'm having a difficult time... plan for a 7 month project? WTF... Do a long term operations plan??! Fuuuck...

Right now I'm cramming a large project proposal that is due TODAY, and I spent last weekend just doing everything but working

It would be so much better if I even vaguely knew what time management was...
 
Well I'm not procrastinating on Autocad anymore since I have dropped the class.:p

I am now procrastinating on realizing I have an alcohol issse, WTF?

And I thought you were the 'shit' if you quit opes.:o

Yea. welcome to life.:(
 
If you have open lab hours, GO TO THEM!

If you have plastic models, USE them.

Pneumonic devices can work well.

Memorize origins and insertions by envisioning the bones and muscles in your own body.

Spend lots of time, but spread it out in 1-hour segments. Never cram.

Work on the easiest stuff first.

Look for rationality in the naming - for example, many muscles will have their origin or insertion in the name.

Think about shapes - the trapezius "sweeps upward" in a triangle to insert on the inferior occipital lobe.


Bottom line - the more time you put in, the better you are going to do :)
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top