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If you’re keeping up, we spent time on Monday putting our base schedule together. This next step is something you should probably do weekly. For the rest of this week you’re going to plan 1-3 hours of studying per evening. On your “weekend” days you can schedule up to 6 hours of studying, but don’t [...]

The slump is burnout. It’s when your fun-self is having a fantastic tantrum due to your courseload/workload avalanche. Meanwhile, your responsible half is lecturing you for fantasizing about running away, increasing the tantrum. You spin your wheels on useless stuff, you’re not having fun and you’re crazy tired. Sound unproductive? Oh yeah. You need to [...]

Everyone  makes them – we spend precious time each day making a nice, long list of things we want to accomplish. Lofty goals, such as “Review last week’s physics lecture notes” and “Volunteer at Shelter”. Then, just to be realistic, we add “Take shower” and “make breakfast” so we can feel good crossing something off [...]