Sometimes I end my day right when I get out if my last class or at midnight. Lastly, when I get burnt out or overworked for the day, I reward myself whether it be getting food from Guads, hanging out with friends or family, gaming, etc. This kept me sharp when it comes to finding a balance of relaxation and productivity during stressful weeks. Or sometimes I save the smaller work for my off days and try to only spend 1-2 hours each day doing those. Sometimes I spend the whole day just doing homework to open up the next couple of days to mess around. I also try to stay in the “zone” and kept constant workflow during the times I do school work. That down time is what I use to do smaller assignments and take my mind off the larger ones to refresh my brain. I had to do a lot of group assignments (which were the important ones) and I know those can get annoying specially waiting on other people’s work. If I had too much work to be done and I know there are more important assignments I will work based on priorities. So asides from my own notes, I compare my notes to my peers during group study sessions and I go from there. I also made friends that take good notes in all my classes.
#I get wasted every night free#
Since I barely went to class, I had all that free time to find a spot to do homework or catch up on some readings. I had to adapt to UCD while maintaining my style of learning. Any confusions during the HW and self study I took to my profs/TAs. I always went to class, I listened to my professors’ lectures and I do the homework as I read the book and only then I take notes BASED ON WHAT I LEARNED FROM THE BOOK AND HW. At CC, I never had to take notes in class. Because of this, I barely went to class during my time at UCD but I always went to my CC classes. CC professors are WAAAAAY more interactive with students and they actually teach while UC profs focus on their research and have vague lectures.
#I get wasted every night how to#
Getting a lot of free time as a STEM major was because I learned how to study independently and doing things my way. Although, I spent 4 years in community college but that’s where I learned to really be good at balancing partying, gaming, working, studying, and socializing. I partied almost every weekend and got good grades as Chemical Engineering major. Winter I had quite a few weekends that were more "low key". Fall semester, this was pretty consistent since we were a football school. Some folks with lighter workloads would extend that a bit depending on the week. Sometimes Thursday too if you were an upperclassman. Then on Friday night and Saturday, we'd party. We'd be there for 8+ hours 4-5 days a week. We'd go early to grab tables for our friends if they were still in class (it was super hard to find space in the library most of the time). Mon-friday you're either in class or at the library. But my school was extremely work hard/play hard, so the time management was darn near cultural for us. I majored in physics and minored in stats just fine doing this in undergrad. Most of them were CS, some are in med school, some are doing their phds like me.
But I know plenty of folks who excelled academically at UCs on quarter systems, despite a prominent work hard/play hard mentality. I went to a school on a semester system for undergrad, which is a massive game changer IMO. When your energy and willpower are dwindling, then doing something entertaining can also feel like a heap of tasks that you are obligated to cross off from my checklist. To be honest, when I have been overwhelmed with that much work, engaging in leisurely activities would just exhaust me further. You know, crab mentality (if I can't succeed, then neither can you). It admittedly makes me unhealthily jealous and makes me wish that others failed. Seeing my peers behave as if college is a picnic often makes me wonder whether the system works in a different fashion for them. If I enjoy more than four times in a quarter, my grades will go down by two and a half letters. Some superkids are able to pull this feat off in a day (I am exaggerating, or am I really?). I am siding with OP on this: I can't understand these expert grandmasters of time management who are able to get wasted, have sex thrice, watch anime, talk to an interviewer or employer, play football, talk to their parents, meet the President of the United States, play Overwatch, cook some fancy cuisine, do a part-time job, finish the grand research project of their career, hit the gym, do Yoga, complete homework, and ace the midterms, ALL IN THE SAME WEEK. Your friend is not an average, ordinary human being.
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