🗑️ 🧵 Study Thread
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Jun 2024 07:41:20 UTC No. 16239125
I've been a complete fraud in university for the past 3 years and managed to get by doing absolutely fuck all. I'm now about to start a Master's degree in 3 months and I actually want to succeed now.
I have 3 months to "learn" (or rather, discover) 3 years' worth of courses. I have everything I need to study neatly organized on my computer, I just need to read the damn things now except I have never studied in my life and have a destroyed attention span from gaming and NEETing all my life. What's your advice for me? Already doing Pomodoro technique which is useful but I really struggle with reading/focusing for more than 30 minutes. At some point I just lose focus and can't really go further. Advice?
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Jun 2024 07:45:57 UTC No. 16239129
>advice?
Yes.
Even if you learned how to properly study you will never recoup in 3 months everything you didn't do in your bachelor's.
The only thing you can hope to do is to learn a lean subset of essentials and hope that your masters is not too demanding and the courses reintroduce concepts as they go.
But of course all of this is impossible when all you have given us is a vague fucking description of your situation since this is either a time wasting thread or you are an actual irredeemable failure
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Jun 2024 07:46:26 UTC No. 16239131
>>16239125
>and managed to get by
You're not a fraud if you managed "to get by". I did that too for my general ed pass/no-pass classes, just by sitting in class and paying attention, zero studying, I got solid Bs in my exams. It's the excellence that requires the extra effort. If you want that A+ every time, you have to be consistent and never fuck up.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Jun 2024 07:48:24 UTC No. 16239132
>>16239125
>What's your advice for me?
me again.
Leave your phone at home and go the study room at the library. There is nothing to do but study. TIf you prefer, take a few colleagues and form study groups to keep each other motivated.
But fundamentally: extract yourself from ALL possible distractions.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Jun 2024 08:02:40 UTC No. 16239150
>>15833839
>Reminder: /sci/ is for discussing topics pertaining to science and mathematics, not for helping you with your homework or helping you figure out your career path.
>If you want advice regarding college/university or your career path, go to /adv/ - Advice.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Jun 2024 08:14:59 UTC No. 16239155
>>16239125
How do you study? (Seriously interested in this)
Do you just read the book from beginning to end?
Imo you need a conceptual overview first in most subjects and then slowly build on that by actual exercises.
Not that I should be giving advice here...
>>16239132
Sorry, but... How do you study? I would just get lost in thought when the subject is boring and stop progressing.
Do you have this problem too?
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Jun 2024 08:25:42 UTC No. 16239161
>>16239150
Not career advice or uni stuff, this is about the process of learning
>>16239155
The courses I have found are just big PDFs so I have no choice but just read them. It'd have helped if I went to class as I know there were exercises there as well as useful stuff or notes I could have taken but yeah, so yeah I just read from beginning to end and hope not to lose focus too soon.
>>16239132
Good advice ty. I've heard of other people preaching by this and I have yet to try it.
>>16239129
Yeah I'm not trying to learn per se, but to read and retain enough so that I walk into the master's not utterly fucking confused at the very first class, you know. So I guess the more accurate question would be, how to improve reading focus, attention span, and retention of information? Any proven methods or tips from le science?
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Jun 2024 10:39:41 UTC No. 16239245
bump
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Jun 2024 11:47:51 UTC No. 16239302
>>16239155
>Do you have this problem too?
yes, I have ADHD and it's impossible to be productive at home, unless I'm panicking and then do everything at the last minute.
In college I found out about the library study rooms and that's how I found my solution: When you're so bored, soooooo bored with no distractions at all, jumping from homework set to homework set, or switching between different treading topics, I got sufficient variety.
Also, having a study group is important, because you do get a little interaction sometimes to distract you and relax a bit, but then the "team" knows what they're fundamentally there for, and everyone will together find their way back to their main goal: studying.
>how do you study
well, you too will learn that from each other.