5 things to prepare the night before

Image © Steve Woods Going to school or college unprepared can be a nightmare. It will often result in angry teachers, chaotic days and the near impossible feat of trying to get everything done without the adequate resources. My top tip for preventing this, prepare what you need for the next day, the night before. To-Do... 1. Check your schedule Take a look at what lessons you have got the next day and get prepared! Make...

Have I Chosen the Right Courses

As we enter the new term, the amount of time we have to change our options if we don’t like them is quickly dwindling away. Here are a few questions to ask yourself to identify whether the course is right for you. A lot of the questions are from the personal experience of trying to decide whether I had chosen the right courses last week! Does the course seem too difficult? If it does now, things aren’t going to...

Good Habits

For most of us, the fall semester is just starting. Workloads are generally lighter at the beginning of the semester, so you may be thinking that you don’t need to worry about developing productive study habits right now. But developing good habits now, before the work piles up and the pressure mounts, means that when schoolwork picks up and midterms loom, you’ll already have productive processes in place for...

Q&A – I Want to hear from you!

I really value your contribution as readers to the website. So far, this has mainly been via comments and I would like to expand this. This means I want to hear from you with questions you have on the subject of student productivity. If you have any questions, please e-mail them to the e-mail address below, I will try to answer as many as possible. questions@gearfire.net Note: By submitting a question, you agree to allow me...