📚Tips for students📚
📖Buy an academic planner or set up a digital planner.
write down all the dates (holidays, deadlines and anything else you need to schedule in even self care days!!) make sure you prepare as early as you can, when you get into term time and assessments it adds soo much unnecessary stress that could have been avoided early.
📖Start emailing lecturers!
The chances of having recommended reading provided before term starts is low so email the lecturer, introduce yourself and specify the module you’re talking about! (ie module name and code) and ask if they can provide you the top books for the semester.
If you do not know who your lecturer will be, go to your library website and you can usually find out the recommended reading from there. Another way you could get reading is to contact your programme leader, they may be able to help you find out who the lecture is or point you in a good direction for recommended reading.
📖Prepare your laptop, notebooks and stationary for note talking!
Buy new stationary if you need to but changes are there a massive stash of Pens ect in your room so use them first
PS. don’t do a Trina where you waste loads of stationary and money things you’ve already got!
📖Create folder on your computer FOR EVERYTHING!
It makes it a lot easier when if comes to exam time and you’re stressing because you can’t find ‘X’ that you really need.
it also helps to keep track of work you've done/still got to do and when it comes to revising, it stops you having unnecessary stress.
the same logic goes for actual folders.
I tend to have a combo of digital and physical folders and keeping everything in it's own place helps alot!
📖BACK EVERYTHING UP ON A MEMORY STICK!!
This has to be my biggest one!
The amount of times I’ve “lost” everything because my Mac decided to reset its self especially near exams is ridiculous!
Or if you don’t have a memory stick have everything saved on word automatically or even send yourself the work in an email just to be extra cautious (I do both just to be on the safe side specially coursework Ect)
I hope these tips are beneficial for anyone starting uni/college eat or even just a new term!!
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