• Space - your personal/work/study space plays a big role in making you feel productive and motivated. Doesn’t matter if its your dorm room, bedroom, office…you should make it your own as much as you can. Put a plant on your desk, get a nice picture for the wall, hang some fairy lights, get a fluffy blanket for your bed, repaint your walls in your favourite color if you can, just make it cozy and comfy and nice to look at and I guarantee you’ll start to feel better. Try to keep it clean and neat, I know it’s hard sometimes, but working in a clean space makes you ten times more productive.
• Self care - start with physical things, drink those 8 glasses of water and keep a tab on it until you get used to it, use handcream everytime you wash your hands, put on moisturizer every morning and sunscreen when you go out, go for a walk around the park at least every other day, and for fucks sake go to sleep at a reasonable hour, you’ll be so grateful in the morning if you do. Show your body some appreciation. 

• Take some ‘me’ time - we might we don’t have time for this, but it’s so important we make some time. First thing in the morning, during the day or before bed, just take a few minutes and relax. Put on your favourite song, burn a scented candle, drink a hot cup of tea, sit down and just breathe. 
• Be proud of yourself regardless - take that ‘me’ time and reflect on your day, pat yourself on the back for everything you did even if it was just getting out of bed. Life is a bitch sometimes and you should be just as proud of yourself for the little things. It’s okay to sometimes be lazy, to procrastinate, to not do anything. You aren’t a machine, you’ll burn out if all you do is work.
• Appreciate the little things - on those lazy days it’s sometimes hard to not feel miserable about it. That’s when you should appreciate the little things in life. Get yourself that coffee you love so much and enjoy it, go to a roof, watch the sunset and appreciate the colors, take a photo of anything you find pretty and look back at them when you feel down…make yourself believe those moments made your whole day and suddenly it’ll feel like your life’s meaning isn’t just getting up and working/studying all the time, but enjoying everything you get to do and see in between too.

• Find your interests - and stick to them!! We all like to give up on things if we aren’t immediately good at them. But no one was born an expert. And as cliché as it sounds practise does make perfect. Join a drawing class, a dance club, a writing class, get a course book on your target language, download editing softwear and play around with it, watch documentaries about your favourite subject. If you fall out of your hobby in the end it’s no big deal, but you’ll know you gave it a try and didn’t miss an opportunity to learn something new. 
• Journaling - this might not be for everybody, but I found it helps me clear my mind a lot to put my thoughts on paper and have everything organized in written form. I just love having all my things in one place where I can just look and see where I’m at, whether it’s plans for the day, my thoughts, my playlists, pretty pictures, anything really. It’s also a great way to be creative. 
• Start now - this is the most important one! Kick yourself in the ass and start taking care of yourself today! Get that glass of water right now, light a scented candle, read that book you’ve been putting off, watch that documentary about your favourite thing. Start enjoying your life right now, even if it’s only for a second, tommorow it’ll be two and three the day after and hopefully soon it’ll be a whole day. 

• Create realistic goals: get ___ grade on next ____
• Manageable let down; get back on track
• Keep track of grades: focused, know where stand, no surprises
• Start small
• Low risk confidence builders
• Take time to relax/give self rewards
• Days off, breaks, rewards
• All work & no play =/= living
• Little organization goes a long way
• Reward achievements!
• Keep balance with exercise, clubs, friends
• 2h/d: friends and exercise
• Remember that hard work pays off
• Isn’t a breeze to try to get a 4.0 GPA; but it’s possible
• You’re smart enough and can achieve it
• 90% there with these tips, 10% is just pure hard work
• Only chill on weekends
• Monday-Friday: school mode
• Have time for some fun
• If work as hard as should during week, will need weekends to blow off steam
• Be self-motivated
• Grades can matter, not everything, but follow through on what needs to be done
• Not most important part of college but underperform? You will regret it
• GPA cutoffs exist and matter to employers
• College is full of distractions and opportunities
• Nobody will hold hand and the work will suck but all the prouder of yourself to be
• Suck it up, buckle down, get it done
• If think need break, probably don’t
• Turn off the little voice
• Realize not alone in questioning ability
• Avoid people who tend to burst bubbles no matter what 
• Physical triggers to stop
• Incentive to get something done when know have something else during the day
• Don’t have a gaping abyss of study time
• Work has to get done, in the end
• Books, examiners, and especially your future self isn’t going to care about your excuses for not doing the work
• Take the first step
• It will almost be fictional how hard you thought the task was going to be
• Just keep going because you simply can’t afford NOT to do anything today, nonzero days
• Leeway, don’t give your perfectionism control over your life

• Sleep! Think and function, mind & body
• CAN sleep if keep up with coursework instead of procrastinating
• Will miss out on some fun stuff
• Need to stay awake in class
• Figure out what need for full speed
• Stay relaxed
• Stay physically healthy
• Diet and exercise
• 1 hour exercise during week
• Weekends off
• Traditional breakfast not necessary if value extra sleep
• Systematic habits: neat, prepared
• Master material
• Look for real world applications
• Learning is a process: be patient, don’t expect to master off the bat
• Designate study area and study times
• Do trial runs
• Practice tests
• Ask a TA to listen to your oral performance
• Study groups
• Don’t copy other people’s psets and solutions

• Spiral bound notebook, can color code with folders/etc if need be
• Lecture notes: front to back
• Reading notes: back to front (if fall behind on)
• Seminar notes: mixed in with lecture notes, different pen color/labeled
• Outline format
• Bullet points for everything
• Same NB for one set of class notes, separate notebooks for all classes
• 5-subject notebook
• Midterm and exam material in it
• Mesh sources, study guide
• All study material from week/month in one place
• Pick the right major
• Indulge in favorite hobby feeling
• Pick professors & classes wisely
• Take a small class
• Pick classes that interest you so studying doesn’t feel torturous
• Want to learn

• Prioritize class by how can affect GPA
• More credits: more weight
• Work enough to get an A in your easy classes: take something good at
• Don’t settle, don’t slack off, don’t put in minimal effort to get that B/C. Just put in a tiny bit more effort to ensure A
• Will have harder classes and need to counteract
• Take electives can ace
• Anything but an A in an elective is kinda mean and an unnecessary hit for your GPA

• Get to know teaching style: focus most on, lecture/notes
• Pick and follow a specific note taking format
• Outline
• Date each entry
• Capture everything on board
• Decide productivity system
• Google Cal
• Todoist
• Agenda: remind meetings, class schedule, important dates/midterms/quizzes/tests, no homework 
• Always wanted to be prepared
• Rarely last minute
• Have plan, stay focused
• Homework notebook
• Good redundancy
• Study syllabus
• Know it thoroughly
• Plot all due dates after class
• Penalize if fail to abide by
• Study the hardest for the first exam
• Seems counterintuitive
• Hardest/most important test
• Pay attention to content and formatLess pressure: just need ___ on final to keep my A 
• Easy to start high and keep high
• Go into crunch mode at the beginning
• End softly
• Get plenty of sleep, exercise, and good food in the finals days before the exam

• Get to know professors: go to office hours, care about grades/course/them
• Easier ask for help, rec letter
• Get to know interests and what they think is important
• Figure out their research interests, 60% of their job is research
• Learning is dynamic
• Discussion helps
• Get feedback early when not sure what doing
• Take comments constructively
• Consistent class participation: ask questions, give answers, comment when appropriate
• Understand material
• Find a study buddy in each class: don’t have to study with
• Somebody can compare notes with, safety net
• Pick somebody who attends, participates, and take notes regularly
• Make some friends
• Participate as fully as can in group activities
• Be involved
• Learn – not be taught
• Be punctual
• Good impression, on human professors
• DON’T BE LATE
• Skipping class =/= option: It’s “cool” to get attendance award
• Make all the classes: it’s hard to feel confident when missing key pieces
• Get full scope of class, everything will make a lot more sense and save a lot of time in long run
• Mandatory class: higher graduating cumulative GPA
• Go to class when no one else does/want to show up, reward
• Get to know professor, what’s on test, notice, r/s build, material not in reading
• Unless optional and super confusing professor
• Sit in one of the first rows
• Don’t fall asleep
• Fake interest if you have to
• Tutors

• Take notes! Provided is bare minimum, accessed by students who aren’t attending lecture
• Based on lecture and what read –> test; it’ll be worth it
• Write it down
• By hand
• Bored? Doodle instead of going online
• Read all assigned–even if need to skim
• Seems cumbersome and maybe impossible
• Figure out what’s important
• Look at the logical progression of the argument/what’s important/what trying to prove
• Understand everything that you do read–even if don’t read everything
• PIck 2 examples from text per topic
• Complete course material on time
• DO NOT WAIT UNTIL DAY BEFORE IT IS DUE
• Begin as soon as possible
• Sometimes it’s just straight up impossible
• Have it look attractive
• Library doesn’t just mean = study
• Social media in the library is still social media
• Confusion is terrible
• Read other textbooks, review course material @ another uni/by another professor, google the shit out of it
• Review
• Do not wait, do throughout semester
• Exam prep
• Ask for model papers, look at style & structure, thesis, how cite
• Get old tests
• Look at type of questions (detail level and structure)
• Can solve old exams cold
• If give out paper exams in class: probs won’t repeat questions, focus more on concepts but still learn the questions
• Have class notes and psets down cold
• Do all the practice problems
• Read through notes a few times; rewrite into a revision notebook
• Highlight major topics and subtopics
• Different highlighter for vocab terms
• Overall picture, go from concept to detail
• Look at overall context and how specific idea fit into whole course
• Ideas, don’t memorize all your notes
• Better understand = more able to use and manipulate info and remember it. Understand = manipulation.
• Charts, diagrams, graphs
• Lists
• Practice drawing labeled structures
• Flash cards for memorization
• Every school requires some degree of grunt memorization
• Say it aloud, write it down
• Get friends to quiz you
• Self-test: severely challenge self, have a running collection of exam questions
• Explain difficult concepts to your friends; force yourself to articulate the concept
• Never pull an all-nighter
• Do not spend every hour studying up to the exam
• Eat, shower, sleep
• Don’t wait until night before exam to study
• Prep takes time even if reviewed throughout semester
• Ask about format–don’t ask the professor to change it for you
• Law of College: it will be on the exam if you don’t understand it
• Ask professor, internet, textbooks
• Night before exam
• Jot what want to remember/have fresh
• Read through in morning/before exam
• Physical prep
• Sleep, have test materials
• Day of exam
• Don’t cram every single spare minute
• Go to bathroom before exam
• Never miss an exam/lie to get more time
• You won’t be any more ready 2-3 days after when supposed to have taken it
• Slay exam. Get A. 

• Friday morning: go through each syllabus, write down in HW notebook
• All hw during weekend; study/reading assignments during week
• Save everything
• Divide big tasks into small pieces to help propel self
• Standard study schedule: block off lectures, labs, regular commitments
• Note the weeks that have assignments and tests that will require extra studying
• Don’t oscillate too heavily every day with study times (i.e. don’t study 2-3 hours for weeks and then 10-12 hour days right before an exam)
• Eat and sleep to make more extended work periods liveable and enjoyable

• Set an amount of time would like to study every day
• Try to study most days
• Avoid vague/zoned out studying –> waste of time
• Do a little bit daily but don’t let studying be your whole day
• Review notes: 30mins/day, each class from that day
• Look at important ideas/vocab
• Prioritize new vocab because language is most fundamental and important tool in any subject
• Circle abbreviations and make yourself a key somewhere so you don’t forget what the hell that abbreviations meant
• Check spelling
• Rewrite/reorganize notes if necessary
• Format of ideas is just as important as the concepts themselves, esp. when it comes time for exam review
• This helps you retain the material so you’ll be ahead next time you walk into class
• Chance to ID any knowledge gaps that you can ask about for next class
• Keep up with reading
• Skim text before lecture or at least main topic sentences
• Jot down anything don’t understand; if lecture doesn’t clarify, ask the professor
• After lecture: skim again, outline chapter, make vocab flashcards
• Highlight similar class and lecture notes
• will definitely be tested on
• Review and make study questions
• Study
• Disconnect from anything irrelevant to study material: help focus and your GPA
• Don’t limit studying to the night
• Study whenever, wherever between classes
• Variety helps focus and motivation
• Especially if tired at night and can’t transition between subjects
• Try to study for a specific subject right before/after the class

“Psychology is not just the study of weakness and damage; it is also the study of strength and virtue. Treatment is not just fixing what is broken; it is nurturing what is best within us.”

• seeing a heart-shaped cloud
• music you could fall asleep to
• warm blankets straight from the dryer
• gifts with a lot of thought in them
• surprise breakfasts in bed
• hot cups of cocoa when it’s cold
• rainbows during a sun shower
• cute artwork that you connect with
• little hopes that come true
• feeling safe with someone you love
• taking care of a used plushie
• yummy edible cookie dough

1. To get an education. 
2. To earn a degree. There are barely any jobs that offer positions to people without a degree, or are on the path of obtaining one.
3. To prove people wrong. That science teacher that said you’ll never make it in the medical field? Make him eat his words. 
4. To prove yourself wrong. Every student has doubts on whether or not they can be good enough in the classroom. Prove yourself wrong, and always be better than you were yesterday. 
5. This is a privilege. Regardless of how much you believe that you HAVE to do this, to some extend you don’t. Realize that you have the privilege of an education even being an option for you.
6. Take advantage of what you’re capable of. Don’t waste a perfectly intelligent mind. 
7. More money. That degree can do wonderful things to your bank account in the future. 
8. It’s interesting. Studying can get pretty boring, but there are always those topics that spark your curiosity and motivate you to learn more.
9. It’s attractive. Not everyone cares for someone who is academically gifted, but a partner who is eager to learn makes me eager to take my pants off.
10. It’s useful. That random fact that you read in a random textbook can stick with you and really end up helping you out one day.
11. It’s fun to know useless shit sometimes.
12. To make your parents proud. This is one of the main reasons I study. My parents have always been aware of my capabilities and have pushed me to be academically better every year. They know I have big dreams, and I just want to achieve them so they can know that their child made it.
13. To make myself proud. This goes along with number four. Knowing that you accomplished something, however small or big the thing may be, is a huge self-esteem booster.
14. To be independent. There’s nothing quite like knowing that you don’t need someone else’s job, degree, intelligence, or presence to make you successful.
15. To pursue your passion. 
16. To gain knowledge. Whether its in your field, or a completely different one, being knowledgeable is just downright fun.
17. People will look up to you. Your siblings, your best friends, and your classmates may see you consistently studying, and it could motivate them to do the same. 
18. To make a name for yourself. “Oh yeah, (insert name here), I know them. Aren’t they like really successful now?”
19. To become your own role model.
20. To be able to pay off your student loans.
21. Because the long nights and excessive coffee will all be worth it. Even if it doesn’t seem like it now. 
22. To exercise your brain. Your brain is just like a muscle, and like the body it needs to be exercised. 
23. To improve your hippocampus. Your hippocamus is responsible for memory, and if you study your memorization will become significantly better.
24. To not waste time doing useless stuff. 
25. Because stationary is amazing. I could spend a whole paycheck on just pens.
26. Because notes are actually all so pretty. 
27. To be productive. I used to spend a lot of time on social media, and although I still do, the amount of time I spend studying and getting stuff done has definitely increased.
28. So classes will be easier. 
29. So tests will be easier.
30. To impress your professors. Get those letters of recommendation! 
31. So the anxiety of getting a bad grade is sufficiently decreased. I constantly worry about my grades, but studying has helped me not worry so much.
32. Because coffee exists. 
33. There is no other atmosphere quite like the inside of a library. 
34. So you won’t have to retake a class. Failing a prerequisite for your major really sucks, so maybe try not failing the first time around. This also saves you a lot of money because you won’t have to pay for the class again. 
35. Finals week won’t suck as bad. You’ll be used to studying so when finals week comes around it wont nearly be as stressful as for those students who are now opening a textbook. 
36. You won’t go to as many college parties. Don’t get me wrong, I am all for socializing and having fun, but a lot can go wrong at a college party very quickly. And there’s no better way to prevent that, than just not going to the party cause you’re reading your economics textbook. 
37. You’ll get used to FOMO. Fear of Missing Out. Every teenagers nightmare. Eventually, you’ll get used to the feeling. 
38. You’ll be getting the most out of your college experience. You’re paying for these classes. Might as well try your best to pass. 
39. You’ll get used to not getting enough sleep. So, if you decide to go to grad school you’ll have that department covered. 
40. There’s really good study music out there. 
41. I guarantee there will be at least 5 places on campus, or around you that are perfect for studying, and you’ll want to go there everyday. 
42. You’ll become a pro at writing essays, or lab reports.
43. You’ll learn fairly quickly that study groups rarely work. 
44. You’ll make a lot of friends that are just as passionate about studying as you are. And you will cherish them. 
45. Beauty and Brains. Don’t you want to fit that description? 
46. Thousands of students before you have done it, so you can too. 
47. You can run a studyblr. Aren’t they the cutest? 
48. You get really good at time management. 
49. Sleep becomes 5x more satisfactory after a night of studying.
50. Because you want to. There’s no better motivation for studying, than the motivation that comes from within.