Is college for me?
Yes, college is for you if you clearly define what you want and seriously work towards your goal. But if you’re all about winging things with no clear direction, then college is not for you.
One thing that triggers this question is when you have a lot to study and you seriously feel behind in everything.
Sometimes, you get to this point because you can’t help but procrastinate in college and you struggle with having solid time management skills.
But even students with strong time management skills struggle because they don’t know how to efficiently study.
Let’s be real.
In college, you’ll have way more materials to cover compared to whatever you had in high school. For example, it’s common to be in a writing class where you have to:
- read 30 pages for one class
- finish problem sets for another
- meet classmates for group projects
So you can’t simply sit there and flip through pages of your book or slides.
That’s a recipe for an unexpected nap.
Before you know what’s happening, you know nothing and still feel incredibly overwhelmed even though you’ve being “studying”.
To get past this, you need to know how to study efficiently.
But first, let’s talk about some quick gotchas.
- Highlighting is not studying.
- Highlight less and instead ask yourself what you’ve learned after every 30 minutes of studying.
- Studying with a friend easily becomes worse than being alone.
- Instead, set a study goal of what you’ll cover so you don’t end up becoming a chatty sessions.
- Studying with music you can sing along to is not studying.
- Instead, turn to music that don’t have lyrics so you cut out your distractions
There are lots of awesome tips everywhere, like the best way to study, study tips for math, how to cram for a test, and more.
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Is college fun?
Yes, college is fun because it’s your chance to meet all kinds of people, form strong bonds and get into try out weird things with your friends that you’ll re-live as memories.
If it feels like you’re not having fun, it could be because you’re not open to being friends with others.
It could also be because you have too much to study so much so that you have zero social life.
For this you need to check out these tips to study so you can claim back some of your time and have a life.
Is college lonely?
It’s okay for college to sometimes feel lonely maybe when hanging out by yourself or especially when you have to do a lot of studying when others seem to be having a social life.
But your entire college experience should not feel lonely.
If it is then you’re missing out on a more rounded experience.
Is college designed to make you fail?
No, college is not designed to make you fail but if you have poor time management skill you’ll feel college is not for you.
Can’t blame you though.
The endless cycle of work done with last-minute pressure combined with the stress of exams makes students think college is surely designed to make them fail.
Think about it.
You have something to do.
And you tell yourself you have more than enough time to do it. Then when you start, you realize ”holy mo, I don’t have any time.” You go through this stress, finish.
And promise yourself ”NEVER AGAIN!!”.
Then the next time you do the exact same thing. You estimate poorly. And you’re back to rushing again.
Some people like to think that last-minute pressure is great for motivation.
Yeah, that’s a trap and you risking poor grades.
Well, turns out it’s a whole thing in Behavioral Psychology.
It’s called Planning Fallacy.
The planning fallacy refers to a prediction phenomenon, all too familiar to many, wherein people underestimate the time it will take to complete a future task, despite knowledge that previous tasks have generally taken longer than planned.[source]
What’s funny is that me telling you now won’t change the fact that you’ll still become a victim of it.
It’ll affect:
- your plans to do your readings on time.
- your plans to study earlier for a test or exam.
- your plans to get a head start on a huge project or term paper.
All the time you estimate will be much longer than what you actually imagined it’ll take.
But for real, what can you do?
Start earlier.
I’m serious.
Like you need to start earlier than you think you should start because the time will just be longer. Skip this tip and I promise that you’re headed down the path of endless stress.
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