how do you gear yourself to achieve near the end of a long college term?
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I think the best thing to do is to work on things over time instead of saving everything for the last minute.  I always found that when the last minute came, I would just keep putting things off.  Just set aside a little bit of time each day to work on something.  But, oh i know thats harder said than done.
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High school is really rough, but you already know that. First, get through this semester's finals. Then take some time to think.\n\nI'd say to find a way to organize and find someone who can keep you on track. Write down your goals for the semester (grades, clubs, teams), academic year, and each of the years you have left until graduation, as well as for college and beyond.\n\nLook at your goals and figure out how to get there. Ask yourself what you really want in life - what is it that makes you feel alive? It's okay if the answer changes, but get an idea of what you really desire and pursue it. If you lose interest, move on to something else. I changed my career choice in high school at least 7 or 8 times and my major in college twice. Then I went BACK to school...twice for additional degrees. Nothing wrong in that. So long as you are able to find happiness and keep growing, you're on the right path.\n\nAllow yourself to make mistakes - they happen, just learn from it.\n\nPlan your high school courses from the future to the present. Say you think you'd like to be a pharmacologist (one who develops new medicines). Call a couple of colleges of pharmacology and ask them what you should take in high school. Plan to take those courses, and chart out what route you need to take - honors, regular, essential level classes, and also whether two years of math is fine or if you need to do four years plus two summers (my cousin did this to get into an engineering school and he's so glad he did, even though it was hard).\n\nNow that you have a course outline, talk with a guidance counselor about when to take which course. Plan time in for yourself, too. If you like to exercise, make time for it. If you like to pray, make time for it. If you want to join a club, make time for it.\n\nAs for your classes, you'll find they go a lot easier if you take good notes, re-read the material the night that you first learn it, and review the previous class's materials for a minute or two before the next class. Plan on doing homework most of your first weekend back at school so that you get ahead (even if there's not a lot of work to do). \n\nAnd take every Friday night off to relax with friends or family or just doing whatever you like to do. You'll need the break.\n\nGood luck!
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work hard study on the regular basis finish your education keep learning and pay attention
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Study. Know your stuff. Take notes well. Study. Get a study group. While you can have your book there, you need to know where everything is or you'll take up the whole time.\n\nGood luck!
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STUDYING AND GRADES\n\n1)Find a good place to study. Most likely your dorm room will have too many distractions\n\n2)Be sure to control your own time. Don't let your friends set your schedule.\n\n3)Don't panic! If your first grades are lower than they were in high school remember that adjusting takes time. You will learn quickly how to manage your time.\n\n4)Learn WHAT to read. Honestly the amounts of reading you will get might scare you at first. It's essential to keep in mind the professor doesn't want you to just do the assignment, they want you to take something away from the assignment.\nCLASSES\n\n1)GO TO CLASS! Go even if someone says it's a blowoff class If you think about it, you or your parents are paying ALOT of money for you to be going to class. Surprisingly there are not that many classes, go otherwise your wasting THOUSANDS of dollars.\n\n2)Don't try to write down every word the professor says. Focus on the key points. Often the last few things a professor says in lecture are important to listen till the end.\n\n3)Don't be intimated by professors. They are willing to help you the same way your teachers from high school were. Often professors are a great asset outside of class that is usually overlooked.\n\n4)Don't drop a class at the first sign of trouble. Talk to the professor and seek help. The first month of a class is often the most straining.\n\n5)Use the schools services such as tutors and writing centers. They are there for you.
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give yourself time to study, plan for it
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Buck up and finish the year. Discipline is good for you.\nBet you didn't want to hear that. Let me explain a bit for you. You've already gotten the loan for your semester or year, or paid for it, why waste good money just because you're bored.  Finish the time, then go find a job. Any old job will do, and without a degree any job is exactly what you have to take. After you've busted it at work for a few months college is going to look mighty fine and you're going to regret wasting that time and money, but, if you finish the semester it's not wasted you still have that and now you can go back and finish college like you wanted to in the first place. You're smart, don't be dumb.
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Wow, that’s really tough....I am glad to hear you have a plan!!\n\n12 years with the same organization looks great on a resume, especially since you were in management. Bravo!!\n\nWhen I am down I do all (or a combination of a few) of the following:\n-Listen to motivational CD's/Tapes. I always feel on top of the world after hearing a good speaker (I will list some personal favorites at the bottom of this message).\n-Play music that sooths and puts to rest my fears, I enjoy Yanni, Enya, Dido, The Cranberries and the like....all depends on personal taste.\n-Set my home (and every drawer in my home) into perfect order, throwing out extra items and give it a complete cleaning. I do this because when I get that next job or project I will be ready...no running around in the morning hunting for things while I am trying to get ready for work.\n-Go to a one day seminar or expo on a subject/event/skill that you find motivating. \n-Take a college course or go to a one day event at your local college. There are TONS of non-traditional students in classrooms today; I should know...I am one of them.\n-Begin a low impact, simple exercise plan. I do Pilates, take walks, ride my bike or just work in the yard....the fresh air is good for the mind (I do my best thinking and get my best ideas while outside)\n-Reading is good as well....read up on the current events in your field.\n-Polish up your resume, and write a few cover letters, you will need them. A good website to gains tons of advice from is monster.com\n\nThe whole goal of your "break" is to prepare yourself to do better and reach higher when you get that next job. This is no time to watch TV or bum around. Use your time wisely; put yourself into "ready-set-go" mode. \n\nYou will be A-OK, don’t worry.\n\nHere are the titles as promised:\n\n-Stop Screaming at the Microwave!!, how to connect your disconnected life-Mary LoVerde\n-Stand Up for Your Life-Cheryl Richardson\n-ReInventing Yourself-Steve Chandler (this one changed my world)\n-Lets Get Real, or Lets Not Play-Mahan Khalsa\n\nBe wise, good luck.
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sleep well, eat well, don't study more than 2hrs a day.(unless you're in Uni)\n\nWhen you study, focus on what you know you'll be asked, and when you have to learn something just be able to answer this question "What is it about?" and then "And so?".\nYou need to be able to develop on the point of the class.\n\nIf you know the point of your lesson then it's fine.\nIf you have to study a foreign language, just work on your vocabulary, have a small notebook in which you write words and read them as much as you can.And try to think in this language you learn while you do simple things.\n\nDon't waste your time re-writing your lessons, that's my main advice.\n\nAnd don't over work nor start to revise one week before the deadline.Final exams shouldn't demand a particular extra work one week before the exams, it's a long run work.You're meant to be able to know about all that you've been working on for the last few months and even years; so just rely on your memory and sense.\n\nIf you don't know something while doing an exam, try to be logical as much as you can, and if your instinct tells you something write as if you were 100% sure about what you say, you either get the points or get nothing but it's worth trying, if you're unsure about what you say you won't get the points anyway.\n\nSo, I would say on a personnal experience (I'm lazy), if you're responsive in class, you've done 80% of the job.Then it's just a wee bit of homework, some reading and a final touch of luck.(yep, luck does count whatever people say)\n\nGood luck to you!! ;)
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use all the spare time you have during school\nonce you get home get started on it\ndont get side tracked either, and its kinda easy to get side track but use your best study habits to help you with it\nlike listening to music, dont make it too boring
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Make sure you have a comfortable area to study where disruptions will be minimal.  Have all your work materials ready.  Plan your work and work your plan (sorry...but the old adages worked for me when I had to study and complete 2 grad degrees) and most of all...\n\nJust Start to Study. The sooner you start the sooner...you know the rest.
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oh man...that's hard to do....just keep @ it....coz once mid-terms end...you tend to slack off. Be relaxed...and luk forward to summer :)..You'll do fine!
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Look for something in th field you are going to college for since you probably have some knowledge about it already and talk to employers in that field. This may mean taking night classes to finish.\nYou must finish college to land a GOOD job.\nSee if the campus has any part time openings.\nYou may want to learn bar tending at night and finish your classes. A bar tending course is usually about a few weeks long. Potential for good money.
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Here's what I do:\n\nStart studying asap\nMake a calender for the last few weeks and be anal about planning\nPlan for study time, work/class, as well as some relaxing time (get lunch with friends, tan, draw...)\nDon't party the night before finals (maybe this is a "duh" but some people do)\nEat a good breakfast the morning of your final and get plenty of sleep BUT don't eat much more than you normally do or sleep too much (maybe it's just me but that totally throws me off)\nDon't worry too much about finals, know that you've studied and are competent enough to figure things out even if the answer isn't obvious right away\n\nGood luck :)
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Just look around, see people that stop school; how are they doing?.\nLook at people that finish University and make money and leave well.\n\nWhich one you like to be most.
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Be a working student.
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1. Graduate. Grit and bear through it, you cant change such in the last one year and you dont want to throw out 3 years worth of work. \n\n2. Find something enjoyable to do for that one year. take a fun course. pottery or photography or differential mathematics, if you like that kind of thing.\n\n3. Your school might have a psychological or counselling service for free. contact them, they can really help\n\n4. The best thing to do once you graduate with a science major when you are throughly confused is go join the peace corps or something like that for a year. go to underpriviledged countries and teach physics or chemistry. see the world, learn how other people survive. It will make u a better person, it will give you enough time to think about what you want to do with the rest of your life. it will give you a chance to give back to the world, for all it gave to you, It will give you a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction.\n\nPoint 4 is just an idea and not necessarily sound advice, talk to your counsellor first