![]() ![]() The app was developed by Chris Vasselli, a software developer (formerly of Box, Subspace, and IBM) and Japanese learner who has really thought the user experience through. You can learn a million facts, but until you understand how they fit together, you’re missing the point.I have a new favorite Japanese dictionary app for iOS: Nihongo. This will help you tap into Big Themes – every class has Big Themes – which will streamline what you need to know. Go for the big picture. Try to figure out where a specific concept fits into the course as a whole. This forces you to articulate your understanding. Again with the friends: ask them to listen while you explain a difficult concept to them. Remember how you made friends? Have them quiz you, then return the favor.Ģ4. Newsflash: even at great intellectual bastions like Harvard, you will be required to memorize formulas, names and dates. To memorize effectively: stop reading your list over and over again. People are often contemptuous of rote learning. If you don’t understand it, it will definitely be on the exam. Once again: do not move into the library. Eat, sleep, and bathe.Ģ1. 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. They will help you reconstruct the author’s argument later on.ġ8. Then, pick any two examples/anecdotes and commit them to memory (write them down). 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. You get nothing out of copying a problem set. You zone out, look down, and suddenly you have five pages of neon green that you don’t remember reading. Underlining is supposed to keep you focused, but it’s actually a one-way ticket to Autopilot Brain. Oh and if you think you need a break, you probably don’t.ġ4. Allow friends to confiscate your phone when they catch you playing Angry Birds. If you know you’re going out in six hours, you’re more likely to get something done.ġ3. Give yourself incentive. There’s nothing worse than a gaping abyss of study time. Then, I will watch an episode of South Park and go to the gym” ALWAYS BEATS “Starting right now, I am going to read as much as I possibly can…oh wow, now it’s midnight, I’m on page five, and my room reeks of ramen and dysfunction.”ġ2. ![]() 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. You can quiz yourself while you wash your hair.ġ1. Also, people who bring food and blankets to the library and just stay there during finals week start to smell weird. Eight hours of Facebooking in the library is still eight hours of Facebooking. Get out of the library. The sheer fact of being in a library doesn’t fill you with knowledge. Also, if you get bored you will doodle, which is still a thousand times better than ending up on stumbleupon or something.ġ0. I don’t know the science behind it, but doing anything by hand is a way of carving it into your memory. Everything will make a lot more sense that way, and you will save yourself a lot of time in the long run.ĩ. If you don’t want to learn, then I can’t help you.Ģ. That way studying doesn’t feel like slave labor. ![]()
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