- Go to class
- Go to the right class
- Remember that large lectures can’t be missed but nobody will notice if you skip precept
- Make the kid with the glasses be your lab partner
- Find your “Hermione”
- Find a nice place to study, like Dillon Gym during a Zumba class
- Start a study group by going up to the first five people you see in the library, putting a hand on their shoulder, and saying “I choose you.”
- Make your room a sacred space devoted to hosting pregames
- Use Twitter as an excellent resource to help you find ideas to start writing papers
- Maximize distraction, minimize focus
- Only take one piece of fruit out of the dining hall
- Use your desk to store the food you’re hoarding from Late Meal
- Respond ‘yes’ to every email
- Colorcode events in a weekly planner
- Colorcode your notes
- Colorcode yourself
- Colorcode your friends based on their importance in your social circle
- Be brutally idealistic about what you can commit to
- Block out chunks of time
- Black out for chunks of time
- Do first things first
- Do second things third
- Put everything first
- Carry all your books with you at all times. You’ll learn through osmosis
- Forget what’s important to you
- Remember what’s important to Eisgruber
- Develop a set of tools then build a birdhouse with them
- Remember that grades are the only thing that matter
-ADJ’18