Monday Master Class: Rapid Note-Taking with the Morse Code Method
The Fast and the Curious I’m currently taking a graduate seminar that assigns demanding articles of demanding length. Being somewhat busy, as I’ve mentioned before, … Read more
Fixed-Schedule Productivity: How I Accomplish a Large Amount of Work in a Small Number of Work Hours
My Schedule Should Be Terrible… I should have an overwhelming, Malox-guzzling, stress-saturated schedule. Here’s why: I’m a graduate student in a demanding program. I’m working … Read more
Q & A: Dealing with Killer Classes, Notes in the Age of Note Packets, and Avoiding the Deadly Grind Syndrome
From the reader mailbag: I registered for a class that sounded completely awesome. I didn’t have the pre-requisites, but I thought it would be okay. … Read more
Monday Master Class: The 5 Most Useful Study Hacks Articles That You Never Read
Golden Oldies I get lots of student e-mail. I enjoy this. It keeps me connected to the real world scholastic struggles that you guys face. … Read more
Weekend Links: A Single Note Card, Being Happy, and Fighting Deathly Schedules
Interesting links from around the web to help you through your weekend Study Hacks withdrawal… Links That Win More Than Barack Obama Todoist with a … Read more
Case Study: How I Plan to Study for my Art History Seminar
Eating My Own Dog Food At MIT, one of the requirements for getting a doctorate in computer science is that you have to take two … Read more
The Art of Speaking: “There is a special circle in hell for those who use laser pointers,” this and other advice from a master speaker.
How to Speak Every January, during MIT’s Independent Activities Period, Computer Science Professor Patrick Henry Winston gives a famed lecture titled: How to Speak. During … Read more
Monday Master Class: How to Peform a Post-Exam Post-Mortem
Dweck’s Chemistry Students In her recent book, Mindset, Stanford Psychologist Carol Dweck describes a study that followed a group of college students through a difficult … Read more
