How to Be a Better Student and Improve Your Learning

Written by Royane Real


If you’re a student attending classes, you have probably experienced many moments when it was hard to make yourself settle down and study, even when an important exam was coming up.

If you’re like most students, you put off studying untilrepparttar very last minute. The night beforerepparttar 109171 exam, you’ll stay up all night cramming, getting little or no sleep. Inrepparttar 109172 morning, you’ll drag yourself out of bed, psych yourself up with lots of coffee and some cigarettes, and go intorepparttar 109173 exam feeling exhausted, drained and jittery all atrepparttar 109174 same time. You’ll find it hard to focus or think, and you’ll be cursing yourself for not starting to study sooner.

And not surprisingly, unless you’re blessed with natural brilliance, or you happen to knowrepparttar 109175 subject matter extremely well, you’ll probably do terribly onrepparttar 109176 test.

If this is your typical method of studying, you already know it doesn’t work. Every time you go through this ritual, you tell yourself that you’re going to smarten uprepparttar 109177 next time you face a big exam. Next time you’ll start to study weeks in advance, you say. But instead, you keep repeating this crazy pattern. Why does this keep happening? And what should you be doing instead if you want to get better marks?

A big problem for most people, especially those who are young students, is that life gets inrepparttar 109178 way. If you’re a student, you probably have a part time job, and like most young people, you also want to have a social life.

Studying can seem very boring compared to allrepparttar 109179 exciting temptations just outside your door. Orrepparttar 109180 games on your computer. Even watching old reruns of Sesame Street can seem more interesting thanrepparttar 109181 biology text your teacher is expecting you to master!

One reason we often don’t start studying untilrepparttar 109182 last possible minute is that we have misjudged how long it will actually take us to absorb and understandrepparttar 109183 material. If your mid-term is still six weeks away, that might seem like plenty of time left before you need to get around to studying. You might find however, thatrepparttar 109184 subject matter is a lot harder to understand than you thought it would be, and all of a sudden there’s no time left to ask someone to explain it to you.

Another reason we often put off starting to study is that we are too overwhelmed with how bigrepparttar 109185 project actually seems to be. Somehow we convince ourselves that putting off a tough study project can berepparttar 109186 best way to avoid feeling overwhelmed by it.

When we are faced with a study project that seems exceptionally difficult and overwhelming, it can be to maintain a high level of interest and motivation forrepparttar 109187 duration ofrepparttar 109188 learning process.

If you have been guilty of all these bad study habits, it’s not too late to learn some other habits that will work better for you.

First, remind yourself why you want to do better in your studies. Maybe you need a good mark to get into a good college. Maybe you want a chance at a career that will pay you well. Always keep your end goal in mind.

You can put little cards up around your room with inspirational messages, and attractive photographs that will remind you why you want to do well in school.

If you feel very overwhelmed, you can improve your motivation and your performance by breaking uprepparttar 109189 project into smaller sections, or “chunks”. Each time you accomplish one little bit successfully, give yourself a meaningful reward.

Overseas Shipping for Students and Small Movers

Written by Stephen Willett


For students - There are 3 broad categories to consider when shipping overseas

*Excess baggage - If you have a small amount of baggage, phone around to see if an airline will extend your baggage allowance. You may need an official letter from your college, and you may well not get enough extra allowance, but it's worth a go.

*Boxed and single items which do not include furniture, and which exceed your baggage allowance.

*Furniture
If you wish to ship furniture, expect costs to get expensive. It will need to be professionally wrapped, possibly crated, and may require 2 or more men to handle it at every stage. You will probably need to share a sea-container. You should investigate delivering to, and picking up from,repparttar shippers depot for savings.

You will require Quality packaging

Maybe you have seen those airport baggage handlers throwing cases around... The cartons used for shipping are extra durable...and you need to pack them very thoroughly.
The packaging you need will probably not be available fromrepparttar 109170 mail order companies listed elsewhere on this site. Their boxes tend to be thin to save costs. There are however, good quality suppliers listed

You should consult your shipper, who may supply cartons, but it may be a good idea to stack one box inside a larger one for extra protection. You should padrepparttar 109171 space between them, possibly with old clothes.

Make sure The shipper provides you with an inventory form to complete, together with labels.

How to save on shipping costs

1) Obtain more than 2 written quotes

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