{"id":28918,"date":"2016-09-22T10:56:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T14:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/?p=28918"},"modified":"2016-09-21T07:59:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T11:59:10","slug":"barely-imparting-senior-student-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2016\/09\/22\/barely-imparting-senior-student-wisdom\/","title":{"rendered":"(Barely) Imparting Senior Student Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"Hello new semester! Don\u2019t you just love the buzz around campus this time of year? You know, its that time in the semester where midterms haven\u2019t taken over life yet, the weather is still amazing and you have a whole new batch of stationary to play with. Okay, that last one only applies to me and a handful of very cool people.\r\n\r\nIt\u2019s also that time of year where I usually make tons of new goals and try extra hard to get this whole studying thing right.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSo in my 3rd<\/sup> year, I was really struggling with school, and I went to the Academic Success Centre<\/a> to explore new learning strategies. I really didn\u2019t know what I was doing wrong and for me, just talking about it with someone whose job is to listen to me whine about how much I procrastinate and then help me fix it was incredibly gratifying.\u00a0\"Sargam\r\n\r\nI booked an appointment first and then I went in to a couple of drop-in sessions<\/a> after I had actually tried some of the stuff that they had suggested. I highly recommend trying this out at least once in your undergrad career because even if the advice doesn\u2019t specifically help you right away, it\u2019ll definitely get you started thinking about learning strategy.\r\n\r\nIt certainly\u00a0got me thinking and these are some of the changes I made in how I studied:\r\n