Good Luck!

Also I got your books and they’re awesome! Straight A fleshes out a lot of your method for me. I will say that reading the textbook in non-technical courses helps me a lot with the big picture and technical explanation. I had a hard time with my AP Chem class only doing practice problems until I read the book AND did practice problems. Reading helps me make connections, see logical progressions and get context and meaning that helps me remember things so now I try to always do it especially the important featured readings.

Might I use it as my quizz “thing” or should I use the questions I inserted in my notes as a quizz ?

Your quiz has to cover every concept that might be asked on your exam.

I read you book How to be a straight A-student. I already thanked you for its existence in another post, so I won’t reiterate. Considering the Quiz-And Recall Method, I had an environmental geology professor that graciously put a whole practice test at our disposition. Might I use it as my quizz “thing” or should I use the questions I inserted in my notes as a quizz ?

On a different note, a 3.08 GPA is getting manhandled? For me that would be getting away relatively unscathed…But to each his own.

Her work schedule (starting howework at 1 am) was being manhandled. She pulled off a 3.0 because she was smart, her classes were not too hard (yet!), and worked hard, but it was brutal. When she took control of her schedule the higher GPA came easier.

But how are you supposed to work straight through, even with ten minute breaks, without losing your focus?

You have to be reasonable with breaks. You might, for example, do an early work push, then go to class, then take a break, then work until lunch, then go to more class, then the gym, then another work push until dinner etc. That is, if there’s enouth classes, meals, and other breaks, it’s not too bad. Some students, of course, have enough classes during the day that scheduling some work later is unavoidable.

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I cannot reiterate this enough: if you enter college adrift, with no sense of why you’re there or how you plan on accomplishing your goals, you will get pushed around by the swirl of uncertainy and activity around you.

This is the message that should be drilled into every freshman, not the usual pep talk about making the most of your four years or “the infinite array of possibilities at your disposal.” It’s so easy to gauge the acceptability of your own behavior based on what you perceive to be other people’s behavior and convince yourself that you must be doing relatively okay. But you never know someone else’s story. Maybe he’s failing all his classes. Maybe she’s a night owl who can only study between midnight and 4am. You need to stick to your guns, and to be able to do that you need a level of self-conviction perhaps not often found in 18-year-olds. You need to do some candid soul searching.

On a different note, a 3.08 GPA is getting manhandled? For me that would be getting away relatively unscathed…But to each his own.