Comments on: Weekend Links: Don’t Love Your Work, Gain Weight, and Stop Multi-Tasking… http://calnewport.com/blog/2007/12/21/weekend-links-dont-love-your-work-gain-weight-and-stop-multi-tasking/ Decoding Patterns of Success Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:27:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Study Hacks http://calnewport.com/blog/2007/12/21/weekend-links-dont-love-your-work-gain-weight-and-stop-multi-tasking/#comment-2182 Study Hacks Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:34:05 +0000 http://calnewport.com/blog/?p=222#comment-2182 Kelly: Good call on the internships. Start early and do your homework on your opportunities: the personal touch, as Kelly notes, can be more important than your GPA. Kelly:

Good call on the internships. Start early and do your homework on your opportunities: the personal touch, as Kelly notes, can be more important than your GPA.

]]> By: Kelly Sutton http://calnewport.com/blog/2007/12/21/weekend-links-dont-love-your-work-gain-weight-and-stop-multi-tasking/#comment-2090 Kelly Sutton Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:18:14 +0000 http://calnewport.com/blog/?p=222#comment-2090 @Cal: don't forgot that you've gotta get started early on internships. If Tiffany's tanked on this most recent semester, she won't be able to do anything to present herself for the internships. @Tiffany: The best thing that you can do at this point is market yourself well. A good cover letter and getting your resume in early is the best you can do. Any internship that's worth its salt should prefer candidates' passion and determination over grades. Convey that in your cover letter and interview, and you should have no trouble nailing the internship you want. @Cal: don’t forgot that you’ve gotta get started early on internships. If Tiffany’s tanked on this most recent semester, she won’t be able to do anything to present herself for the internships.

@Tiffany: The best thing that you can do at this point is market yourself well. A good cover letter and getting your resume in early is the best you can do. Any internship that’s worth its salt should prefer candidates’ passion and determination over grades. Convey that in your cover letter and interview, and you should have no trouble nailing the internship you want.

]]> By: Study Hacks http://calnewport.com/blog/2007/12/21/weekend-links-dont-love-your-work-gain-weight-and-stop-multi-tasking/#comment-2051 Study Hacks Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:58:50 +0000 http://calnewport.com/blog/?p=222#comment-2051 Scott: Good catch! Not even Ramit could find a way to gain 50 lbs in a week. Tiffany: A good exercise after a bad exam period is to go back and figure out, in detail, how you could of studied for the exams (and handled assignments during the term) in such a way that you would have done better. Use this information to help devise a new and improved system for the new semester. My best exam scores usually came after doing poorly on a previous exam for exactly this reason! Scott:

Good catch! Not even Ramit could find a way to gain 50 lbs in a week.

Tiffany:

A good exercise after a bad exam period is to go back and figure out, in detail, how you could of studied for the exams (and handled assignments during the term) in such a way that you would have done better. Use this information to help devise a new and improved system for the new semester. My best exam scores usually came after doing poorly on a previous exam for exactly this reason!

]]> By: Scott Young http://calnewport.com/blog/2007/12/21/weekend-links-dont-love-your-work-gain-weight-and-stop-multi-tasking/#comment-2046 Scott Young Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:18:32 +0000 http://calnewport.com/blog/?p=222#comment-2046 Oh, and I think Ramit gained 5lbs, not 50... ;) Oh, and I think Ramit gained 5lbs, not 50… ;)

]]> By: Scott Young http://calnewport.com/blog/2007/12/21/weekend-links-dont-love-your-work-gain-weight-and-stop-multi-tasking/#comment-2045 Scott Young Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:17:53 +0000 http://calnewport.com/blog/?p=222#comment-2045 Thanks for the link love, Cal. Don't hesitate some more great ideas my way for a link from my site. Cheers and happy holidays! -Scott Thanks for the link love, Cal. Don’t hesitate some more great ideas my way for a link from my site.

Cheers and happy holidays!
-Scott

]]> By: Tiffany http://calnewport.com/blog/2007/12/21/weekend-links-dont-love-your-work-gain-weight-and-stop-multi-tasking/#comment-2039 Tiffany Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:39:19 +0000 http://calnewport.com/blog/?p=222#comment-2039 I have a question slightly off topic I am currently in the position where my semester ended...and let's say my final exams brought my gpa down abysmally, and I've gone through the five stages of grief about my performance. How do you make lemonade from lemons to improve your performance for the new semester? I would love to start afresh, but yet my worries about summer internships and my chances at future opportunities mentally set me back. I have a question slightly off topic

I am currently in the position where my semester ended…and let’s say my final exams brought my gpa down abysmally, and I’ve gone through the five stages of grief about my performance.

How do you make lemonade from lemons to improve your performance for the new semester? I would love to start afresh, but yet my worries about summer internships and my chances at future opportunities mentally set me back.

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