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Approaches to Studying

One of the final sections of my qualifying examinations has got me thinking about how students can process a great amount of material in a relatively short amount of time. I have been given the task of reading nine books in areas I wasn’t taught and didn’t specifically study. I will sit in a room with professors from these disciplines and they will expect me to have some amount of knowledge about these nine books. How can one approach something like that? It seems to me that there are two basic options (and blending them would take more time and … Continue reading →

Summer of Woes

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Summertime is supposed to be filled with laughter and joy for those in the academic world. The summer is for resting, relaxing, and sipping on iced drinks from a folding chair in the sunshine. Summertime means you’ve completed that final test, graded that final paper, added those final grades to your transcript and have fewer worries until the fall semester begins those concerns anew. This is not true for me this summer and I only recently realized how bad it is going to be. Over 5,700. Go ahead… read that number again. Feel it labor your mouth into forming the … Continue reading →

Tips for Studying after Returning to College

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One of the hardest parts of attending college while having small children is finding time to study and sleep. Many mothers find themselves spending late nights studying. In this article, I have offered a few tips on how to keep up with your academics after returning to college. Take your assignments in pieces and try to do a little each night instead of waiting and having to complete it all at once. It is much easier to set small goals for yourself on a daily basis. You can often squeeze in fifteen minutes of reading each day easier than you … Continue reading →

How Many Hours Are You Truly Working?

When I first decided that I wanted to work from home so I could stay home with our children when we had them (that still hasn’t happened, actually) I decided to become a medical transcriptionist (MT) because that was what I read about in an ad in the newspaper one Sunday. Not really the best reason for choosing a career path, but at the time, it made sense to me. I quit my day job and went to school full-time so I could graduate quickly and start working right away as an MT. My husband was very impressed with my … Continue reading →

Time Management and Studying

When study skills are taught, did you ever think time management skills need to be included as well? Besides reminding a child to study for long periods of time, breaks need to also be scheduled in or time management skills. For example, Timmy comes home from a full day of school and enters the home around 3:30pm, has a snack, and by 4:00pm homework and studying has begun. This continues till dinner time and sometimes even into the better part of the evening. It is understandable that children today do get a large amount of homework (as this will be … Continue reading →