How to Study Like a Harvard Student: A Thread
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Phase II: Study Time
Get out of the library. The sheer fact of being in a library doesn't fill you with knowledge. Eight hours of Facebooking in the library is still eight hours of Facebooking. Also, people who bring food and blankets to the library and just stay there during finals week start to smell weird. Go home and bathe. You can quiz yourself while you wash your hair.
Do a little every day, but don't let it be your whole day. "This afternoon, I will read a chapter of something and do half a problem set. Then, I will watch an episode of South Park and go to the aym" ALWAYS BEATS "Starting right now, I am going to read as much as possibly can...oh wow, now it's midnight, I'm on page five, and my room reeks of ramen and dysfunction."
Give yourself incentive. There's nothing worse than a gaping abyss of study time. If you know you're going out in six hours, you're more likely to get something done.
Allow friends to confiscate your phone when they catch you playing Angry Birds. Oh and if you think you need a break, you probably don't.
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