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STUDY TIPS
by
Owen Whitehurst
Freshman, Emory University
The biggest of all study tips is to actually study! It’s easy to go from high school, where you’re constantly quizzed and constantly have assignments due, to college, where you’re fairly unstructured academically, and lose all your motivation to study. One thing that makes studying easier for me is to go to the library—it takes me away from my computer, phone, TV, friends, and other distractions.
My advice is to try and set aside at least an hour every night to study no matter what. You can add on to this hour as exams and papers come up, but by studying at least an hour every night you’re always staying on track. This way you won’t go two weeks without doing any sociology work and then pick up the syllabus and realize that you only have two days to read a six-hundred page book.
The worst piece of advice I received was when a friend told me this: “Freshman year doesn’t matter, man. Go out and party, don’t go to class, it's not a huge deal because you’re not taking serious classes anyway.” As stupid as this sounds, I see a lot of college freshmen doing exactly what my friend told me to do.
In reality, many of your freshman classes do matter. Many of the professors you have your freshman year you will have again, and it helps a lot if they recognize you as a good student. More broadly, the attitude of “this doesn’t matter” will not automatically switch off after your freshman year. If you don’t take your freshman year seriously you might find that it will be extremely hard to take your sophomore year seriously, and your junior year, and your senior year.
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