Summer Sylph slips silently Tween pages damp from heat And speaks in whispers softly through The tree leaves while you sleep Summer Sylph is waiting for you In your midnight mind Step out of doors and into gardens Campus nooks you’ll find Sparrows, dapples, blooms and breezes Wait for you out there Courtyards, stones and [...]
You’ll still have to study but if you want to optimize your brain function include exercise as a regular part of your study plan. Research shows that exercise hour away from your desk will more than pay off when you return rested, alert and calm. Exercise decreases your stress levels, improves your sleep, and improves [...]
If you’re a Mac user, why not try iflash? This nifty program lets you make flashcards for studying. Or, why not make flashcards the old fashioned way? All you need are index cards (you choose the size) and something to write with. There’s an argument to be made for making flashcards by hand: for some [...]
Just this week, I held a “summer mini-course” for incoming students where we went over the basics of Time Management, Reading, Note-taking, Memory and Concentration. (For any new students from our university looking to sign up for the next round in late August, you can do so here.) I asked students what their favourite timewasters [...]
So, I got a little feedback from that five favourite timewaster’s post. Basically it went like this: okay smart guy, anyone can list what makes them waste time. What do you do that actually works? Or do you just sit around all day trying to think of what to put up on the blog? (Of [...]
To-do lists can be a lifesaver, but the problem is that there’s always something else to do. So you keep adding to it. And adding. And the next thing you know, no matter how hard you work, no matter how many things you cross off the list, it just seems to get longer and longer. [...]
… and for those doctoral students out there, you might be interested in the fabulous book, Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day by Joan Bolker. CG
We talk a lot about how doing just a little at a time can add up to a lot. I mean, what is a big job besides a series of small jobs strung together? This article suggests 20 things you can do in a mere 15 minutes. CG
This page provides a handy top-ten list for busting procrastination. Some of them are obvious — avoid TV, internet, telephone. Some are so obvious that they are impossible not to include (but often strangely easy to forget) — ie. get right to work! My favourite on the list: avoid doing extra research. How often do [...]
