Study Skillz for The Suckcessful Stoodent

Studying is hard work. You don’t learn all twenty-six letters in the alphabet by counting your 1,2,3′s. If you are like 75.6% of all students out there, you study your Facebook more than your textbook. And that flat out won’t work. In effort to appeal to my audience and lend a hand in successful studying habits, I thought it would be important to share a few tips that I never used while in college. We all want to study less while learning more and we want studying to be fun. How can this happen though when teachers continually require you to do more and more work? These tips will fail to answer that question, but will give you a nice distraction from the studying you should be doing.

Tip #1: Distractions Are You’re Enemy

General Patton said, “You dig a foxhole; you dig a grave.” While economics may not be as catastrophic as WWII, distractions are your foxhole. Sure, you need the internet to do research. But do you really need tabs open to Facebook, Pandora, and Twitter while Glee is playing on Hulu? Sue Sylvester may be a great coach, but she’s not going to teach you the value of having an inelastic product. So, shut down those tabs. Pause Glee. Get back to the books. When you’re done shooting down the enemy of your economic textbook, take a short break as you pray to Grilled Cheesus (Confused? It’s something  about the last Glee episode–and no, I didn’t watch it. It’s just a popular Twitter topic right now).

Tip #2: Don’t Overwhelm Yourself

So you finished your first assignment, but you have fifteen more? Freak not thy friend. You have an exam tomorrow and you haven’t read the textbook yet? Well buddy, you’re screwed and no tips will save you. Lay down Halo Reach and remember you actually are paying to be in college. As for the rest of you, there is hope. Don’t take on more than one task at a time. Pull out that schedule and plan your week out. If you know you have an exam in a week and you have seven chapters you haven’t read, then the math says you got a chapter to read a week. Cramming is for losers and you’re not one of them.

Tip #3 Ask For Help

Like mentioned above, you are paying to be in school, right? Those Benjamins falling out of your pocket should have something more to show for themselves than late nights and zero social life. If you don’t know how a star is formed and your astronomy professor said he has office hours and would love to help you out, then reading that textbook a fifth time won’t make pulsars or nebulae any more exciting. Use those office hours and go ask your teacher to explain for help.

There are three quick tips to increase your study habits. Hope they helped you. Now shutdown these extra tabs and get back to studying.

As for more helpful tips, here are some from a random teacher and Lynne who looks like she’s stuck in the 80′s. Doesn’t that smile just freak the life out of you?