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How to Study Like a Harvard Student: A Thread

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Phase III: Assignments

  1. Stop highlighting. Underlining is supposed to keep you focused, but it's actually a one-way ticket to Autopilot Brain. You zone out, look down, and suddenly you have five pages of neon green that you don't remember reading. Write notes in the margins instead.

  2. Do all your own work. You get nothing out of copying a problem set. It's also shady.

  3. Read as much as you can. No way around it. Stop trying to cheat with Sparknotes.

  4. Be a smart reader, not a robot (lol). Ask yourself: What is the author trying to prove? What is the logical progression of the argument? You can usually answer these questions by reading the introduction and conclusion of every chapter. Then, pick any two examples/anecdotes and commit them to memory (write them down). They will help you reconstruct the author's argument later on.

  5. Don't read everything, but understand everything that you read. Better to have a deep understanding of a limited amount of material, than to have a vague understanding of an entire course. Once again: Vague is bad. Vague is a waste of your time.

  6. Bullet points. For essays, summarizing, everything.




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