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College Study Hints
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How to Prevent Homework From Screwing Up Real Life

As you start college, various well-meaning people will give you excellent advice, most of which you will ignore, even though you are destined eventually to give the same advice to others. Such advice tends involve the word "don't."

• Don't cut class.
• Don't procrastinate.
• Don't expect everything to be relevant to your major.
• Don't watch soaps.
• Don't spend money you don't have.
• Don't take on more courses than you can handle.
• Don't cheat.
• Don't spend all day on "social media" sites and computer games.
• Don't be afraid to change majors.
• Don't be embarrassed to ask for help.
• Don't put beans in your nose.

The little essays here are intended to be more helpful than that by being more specific (and less negative). You will probably ignore this advice too, but since these essays are wordy, there is at least some chance for something to strike a responsive chord. So read them and prosper already.

Learn to concentrate, to give all your attention to the thing at hand, and then to be able to put it aside and go on to the next thing without confusion. Actually, you can finish any task much quicker if you concentrate on it for fifteen minutes than if you give it divided attention for thirty.

—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

—Mark Twain (1835-1910)

I love to learn, but I don't like to be taught.

—Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more he has of it the greater will be his confusion.

—Herbert Spencer

Very Selective List of Links to Other Study Skills Sites:
This list excludes sites with prominent ads and sites that offer termpaper-writing services.

• My Page on Cheating
  (For obscure reasons, this is the most popular page on my site.)
• A College Student's Guide to Studying and Test Preparation for 2023 by College Cliffs (a college-selection site)
  (Linked 2023-01-10)
• Essential Study Tips by Jennifer Piederman at Bags in Bulk (a backpack company)
  (Link confirmed 2023-01-10)
• Study Skills for Students from Education Corner (an educational resource link collection)
  (Link confirmed 2023-01-10)
• 12 Unusual Study Hacks for College Students from Purdue University Global
  (Link confirmed 2023-01-10)

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