Comments on: The Definitive Guide to Acing Your Schedule http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/09/14/the-definitive-guide-to-acing-your-schedule/ Decoding Patterns of Success Tue, 22 May 2012 11:52:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Anonymous http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/09/14/the-definitive-guide-to-acing-your-schedule/#comment-15340 Anonymous Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:47:36 +0000 http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/09/14/the-definitive-guide-to-acing-your-schedule/#comment-15340 Hey Cal I just have one question. I'm still in high school but I'm transferring to a high school where the school day is 8am to 4pm every day except for Wednesday which is 8am to 12pm. According to the teachers, there is about 4-5 hours of homework. How can I ace this schedule? Hey Cal
I just have one question. I’m still in high school but I’m transferring to a high school where the school day is 8am to 4pm every day except for Wednesday which is 8am to 12pm. According to the teachers, there is about 4-5 hours of homework. How can I ace this schedule?

]]> By: Sandy http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/09/14/the-definitive-guide-to-acing-your-schedule/#comment-14105 Sandy Thu, 20 May 2010 02:19:55 +0000 http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/09/14/the-definitive-guide-to-acing-your-schedule/#comment-14105 <blockquote> 1. Setup a separate chat with your professor, your TA, and a student who took the same course in a previous semester. 2. In each chat session, ask the same question: If you were to write an advice guide about doing incredibly well in this class, what would the chapters be? </blockquote> Once again, I completely concur with you Cal! I just have one question though, how can this work when you are taking a class that is in a community college how can one find who might have taken this class before with the same professor or the same class? (FYI … One of the reasons I am going to be taking some classes at the community college as the classes are smaller and cheaper and eventually take them at the remainder at the university.)

1. Setup a separate chat with your professor, your TA, and a student who took the same course in a previous semester.
2. In each chat session, ask the same question:

If you were to write an advice guide about doing incredibly well in this class, what would the chapters be?

Once again, I completely concur with you Cal! I just have one question though, how can this work when you are taking a class that is in a community college how can one find who might have taken this class before with the same professor or the same class? (FYI … One of the reasons I am going to be taking some classes at the community college as the classes are smaller and cheaper and eventually take them at the remainder at the university.)

]]> By: Study Hacks » Blog Archive » An Argument for Quitting Facebook http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/09/14/the-definitive-guide-to-acing-your-schedule/#comment-12312 Study Hacks » Blog Archive » An Argument for Quitting Facebook Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:42:43 +0000 http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/09/14/the-definitive-guide-to-acing-your-schedule/#comment-12312 [...] disappointed to learn that his GPA was a lackluster 2.95. Following the Study Hacks orthodoxy that study habits should be based on evidence — not random decisions or peer pressure — Daniel asked himself a crucial question: What [...]

[...] disappointed to learn that his GPA was a lackluster 2.95. Following the Study Hacks orthodoxy that study habits should be based on evidence — not random decisions or peer pressure — Daniel asked himself a crucial question: What [...]

]]> By: Richard Shelmerdine http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/09/14/the-definitive-guide-to-acing-your-schedule/#comment-11580 Richard Shelmerdine Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:18:47 +0000 http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/09/14/the-definitive-guide-to-acing-your-schedule/#comment-11580 Take care of who you hang around with if it's your first year this year. They will force their habits onto you. Take care of who you hang around with if it’s your first year this year. They will force their habits onto you.

]]> By: Study Hacks http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/09/14/the-definitive-guide-to-acing-your-schedule/#comment-11446 Study Hacks Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:52:40 +0000 http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/09/14/the-definitive-guide-to-acing-your-schedule/#comment-11446 <blockquote>hat baffles me is the occassional student who keeps getting bad grade after bad grade, and doesn’t respond to *any* of the suggestions I put on their homework assignments or come in to ask me why they’re doing poorly.</blockquote> It can be baffling. The more I work with students, the more I've encountered that there are deeper, social and emotional issues underlying many academic problems. This is part of the reason I spend as much time on the "why" as I do the "what" here...

hat baffles me is the occassional student who keeps getting bad grade after bad grade, and doesn’t respond to *any* of the suggestions I put on their homework assignments or come in to ask me why they’re doing poorly.

It can be baffling. The more I work with students, the more I’ve encountered that there are deeper, social and emotional issues underlying many academic problems. This is part of the reason I spend as much time on the “why” as I do the “what” here…

]]> By: Don Smith http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/09/14/the-definitive-guide-to-acing-your-schedule/#comment-11418 Don Smith Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:47:20 +0000 http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/09/14/the-definitive-guide-to-acing-your-schedule/#comment-11418 Personally, I try to put those "how to do well", and "how to study" kinds of things in my syllabi, but I would still enthusiastically welcome students coming in to my office hours to ask about how to do well. What baffles me is the occassional student who keeps getting bad grade after bad grade, and doesn't respond to *any* of the suggestions I put on their homework assignments or come in to ask me why they're doing poorly. Of course, I am assuming the students actually read the syllabus... Personally, I try to put those “how to do well”, and “how to study” kinds of things in my syllabi, but I would still enthusiastically welcome students coming in to my office hours to ask about how to do well. What baffles me is the occassional student who keeps getting bad grade after bad grade, and doesn’t respond to *any* of the suggestions I put on their homework assignments or come in to ask me why they’re doing poorly. Of course, I am assuming the students actually read the syllabus…

]]> By: Kling http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/09/14/the-definitive-guide-to-acing-your-schedule/#comment-9988 Kling Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:06:08 +0000 http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/09/14/the-definitive-guide-to-acing-your-schedule/#comment-9988 You're right-I definetely would like to ask these questions, but I never will, because people are sometimes so reluctant to give clear, straight and helpful answers. As soon as they get the impression that someone is asking for advise, they decide to become ambigious. You’re right-I definetely would like to ask these questions, but I never will, because people are sometimes so reluctant to give clear, straight and helpful answers. As soon as they get the impression that someone is asking for advise, they decide to become ambigious.

]]> By: Wilhelm Scream http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/09/14/the-definitive-guide-to-acing-your-schedule/#comment-9804 Wilhelm Scream Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:17:35 +0000 http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/09/14/the-definitive-guide-to-acing-your-schedule/#comment-9804 To be honest, I feel very uncomfortable about asking a question which to me essentially reads "Can you tell me how to do well in the exam?" But that's just me and my curious middle-class prejudices. To be honest, I feel very uncomfortable about asking a question which to me essentially reads “Can you tell me how to do well in the exam?” But that’s just me and my curious middle-class prejudices.

]]> By: Snake http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/09/14/the-definitive-guide-to-acing-your-schedule/#comment-9730 Snake Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:56:04 +0000 http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/09/14/the-definitive-guide-to-acing-your-schedule/#comment-9730 So in the interim, how would one study, if he wanted to know everything as it came along? Thanks. So in the interim, how would one study, if he wanted to know everything as it came along?

Thanks.

]]> By: Study Hacks http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/09/14/the-definitive-guide-to-acing-your-schedule/#comment-9720 Study Hacks Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:34:39 +0000 http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/09/14/the-definitive-guide-to-acing-your-schedule/#comment-9720 <blockquote>Hey Cal. How often would you recommend creating mega problem sets</blockquote> Create them a couple weeks before each exam. (Some students also try creating them as they go along during the semester. Either way works.)

Hey Cal. How often would you recommend creating mega problem sets

Create them a couple weeks before each exam. (Some students also try creating them as they go along during the semester. Either way works.)

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