Study Habits of Highly Effective Students

Hey guys. So I hope you guys have had a really great 2018 I’m so full of a cold somehow I’m finishing 2018 feeling no great, but I wanted to sit down and talk to you guys about some of the study habits or the study goals that I have set for myself for 2019 to this time of year when everyone starts to, you know, reflect on that 2018 set goals, set resolutions, stuff like that for the new year.

So I have set myself some habits and goals for studying specifically, it’s what I really want to achieve. And it’s what I’ve noticed that I could do better or things that I sometimes do, I don’t do all the time and I want to make them a habit because I feel that when I do do them I work more productively or I feel better about the work they’ve done. So I’m sharing these because I thought that you might want to hear that.

I put it on my Instagram and you guys were interested. And obviously if you think that they might be of use to you guys, then you can obviously employ them and try and make them a habit for you as well. I have written them down, I’ve got five and I’ve written them on a not so sticky, sticky note because these things like don’t stick anywhere. Okay, so the first one is to use timers. I’ve noticed that when I say set a timer for like half an hour, 40 minutes or an hour or something, I find that I work more productively in that time. Because I have a bit of a time pressure I can just work without timers and that’s what I do most of the time. However, I do notice quite big difference when I put a timer on because it means that in the hour or half an hour, I have to learn some notes that I’ve set myself to learn and without a timer. I’m like there’s no stop on this so I can just you know, take my time.

Time and I will set the duration as I see kind of fit. So if I’m trying to learn like a few sides of writing or some notes or something like actually learn it and get it my brain, then I’ll set myself a good amount of time like 40 minutes to an hour, especially if I if I haven’t read those notes quite recently, and they’re going to be quite new.

And then when I’m trying to draw something, I’ll shorten the time and see how long it takes me to get through something on to just see how much I can say, regurgitate if I’m doing it without my notes, and like half an hour, 15 minutes, something like that. So it’s a way to maximize productivity and to just really get your brain and gear it’s kind of more like an exam situation and what you’ll have at the end of the year because yes, everything is time pressured, it just kind of gets you used to that and I can just set one on my watch. I used to use my phone which is just as good or you can just use the clock on your laptop, anything at all just that one and when that timer goes off you either

Move on something else. You take some breaks, get something to eat, get something to drink. And yeah, I just think it’s a really great way to stay on schedule as well. And to just be more productive. I like it. I really do like time. Oh, so you. Second one is to take more brief breaks. And it’s not to do studying. I know. But it can really help you to reset your mind to like calm your mind, and then prepare you for the next bit of work that you’re going to do. So I’m someone who can very easily just get sucked into working, working nonstop and not giving myself any breaks. I’m most rushing to get things done. I put a lot of pressure on myself to be productive and get everything that I’ve wanted to do that day complete.

I do often try and fill my day so it’s crammed full and I don’t give myself any space or time to just breathe. As you guys know, if you watch and keep up to date on my channel, I have used some meditation

apps recently and on my watch as well, which is actually turning out to be really useful in many ways. It pings at me all the time throughout the day telling me to take a one minute brief break. And so far since I’ve had the watch, it’s really bad. I’ve done it once. However, I do notice that when I do take a brief break, it allows me to just calm you know, just like settle down, let my brain and illusion neurons are firing rapidly, just like calm down for a bet. And even if it’s just a minute, I do notice a difference because I’m not so uptight about things.

When people do come in and I’m studying I often will just be like in the zone and I can’t be distracted. However, if I actually take a one minute out one minute, 60 seconds. It’s nothing it’s not going to change anything, but it’s just gonna make a huge difference. And yeah, I need to really appreciate that. If I do meditate or I breathe for a set time, just think

Nothing I’m trying to my mind and make such a huge difference. So I need to do it more often. Number three, yeah, this one, okay, it’s gonna be hot. This one really hard it is to reduce the time spent on the screen. And the reason why I say it’s hot is because everything or the majority of things that I do on a screen and I’m ready don’t like that. So I love working and I love the fact I put myself on my end and the stuff I do online, but everything is on a screen. I’m walking on a screen.

If I’m reading something on the screen, editing a video on a screen posting Instagram picture up on a screen. Everything is just digitalized. And I know that my eyesight has really deteriorated since I’ve been at university and that’s because I’ve just been reading so much stuff I’ve been looking at things that are very close up I slightly short sighted so she was like fine things and the distance and far away especially things on the screen there looking

Blood well okay

yeah I don’t wear them very often because I only really need them in like lectures or if I go to the cinema sometimes I wear them even though the screen is huge it’s because it’s a pixelated and it looks at blood to me and if I’m going to see a show something I read last I’m sorry the like blowing and I can’t see everything but yeah, these are like losses.

So I’m really paranoid about my eyesight by don’t actually try and do anything to help it but then I do if I can, because as I said, everything is on a screen. However, I’m kind of thinking like I need to that for just make sure that I alternate between doing something on a screen and doing something that’s not on a screen as much as possible. So sometimes I will find myself hours or even the whole day just on a screen doing something and last time, especially when I was writing my dissertation and just reading papers online, so I’m not going to print them off because then that’s a waste of ink and paper.

I’ve read everything my destination on a string so much reading last time for my dissertation especially and everything was online I felt that sometimes I would just get up when I’m saying going to dance and going out and stopping my eyes would just be so

I don’t know blood could fall forward couldn’t really focus yes it will give you a headache if you’re on a screen for such a long time and I did get some headaches sometimes especially last time yes I like to stay hydrated but sometimes hydration wasn’t a problem

and that’s when I knew I’ve just been on the screen for too long and I also noticed as well my is extremely hot and read the not necessarily hop I just feel that all the blood inside my body has just been sucked to my ears and they go bright red and then I can feel them burning and like posting like a hobby is I in my is it’s so bad and I wasn’t a strange castle for like a list of my arrows. rad. There’s a line here and the rest of me is just like this beautiful pale color.

And yeah, those are my symptoms. And when I get headaches and I my eyes forward and my ears garage and everything’s posting, I know that I’ve been on the screen for too long. And I experienced that too many times last time, especially reducing time spent on the screen is going to be hard. bought my solution or my goal next year especially, is to just, you know, alternate between doing something on a screen and doing something on the screen. Sorry, I’m reading screams I love them or hate them at the same time. Okay, number four is to Yeah, okay. I’ve written Don’t be scared to dive in.

doesn’t make any sense to you, but it does in my head and I’m going to explain it. Okay. So my problem sometimes is that before I say like I’m writing an essay without any notes, or I practice something as if it were an exam like without any notes or without any guidance and help under a certain time limit. I find I put those things on

off until I feel 100% confident in the stuff that I’ve been learning. I’m really bad at that. I put things off until I feel that I am 100% confident and everything that I know, I know that I have enough to write about in an essay or I can answer questions about that. Or I feel as if I just know enough detail before I then test myself will write an essay and I need to take more of a risk sometimes to just you know, like, dive in, jump in do it straight away, even if I don’t know anything fully because that will then highlight to me what I need to go back over and then what I need to work on. So I’m just very good at putting it off and being like, No, I’m not ready yet. When I have experienced especially a university in an exam What does an essay title which I have to write but I don’t know very much about the topic or it’s very big

and pleasure especially those one question which I think

Didn’t revise for at all and I had to write an essay on it. So it’s gonna mimic those situations if I practice it and that will make it so much easier to deal with. If you’re in an exam and you’re faced with that situation you know go for it you know i don’t know everything I’m but like

on the topic, just do it and see what happened. So the last one is too I’ve just realized all my folders like stacked up there and some random stuff just junk in the corner of my room. Yeah, it’s it’s quite specific one this is to plan essays or your essays because that is everything that get examined on this year. It’s essays as you plan them every single bloody time Holly, I am so good applying my day. Tell me to write to do list I will jump on it very happily. Tell me to plan an essay. I’m like, oh, why don’t just dive straight in and get writing you know, more time to write down more stuff when actually

When I plan that goes so much better. Most of the time I’m planning is just in general a very good thing. However, when I’m writing essays, especially in exams, well like mocks I just forget about the plan and just dive straight in and that is bad. You know God holy No, don’t do that holy and I don’t advise it and I am very good at just not planning essays don’t know why.

Why do you know why? It’s because I’m like, I need more time. I need as much time as possible to write as much done as I can. Sometimes that’s that’s going fine. We’ve come to a conclusion and it’s fine without a plan. However, I have had situations where I’ve just, you know, blood on a play a play on the page written down whatever kind of came to mind next. And that for the structure was not great. You know, I have had that and that was last year in an exam. I remember quite vividly that happening. And I remember just writing and I remember finishing

Like what just happened? Like, I was just sick on a page, you know,

that really didn’t make sense that there was nothing I could do because I had to move on to the next essay. Otherwise I’d run out of time. And that was a bad move. You know, you only learn these things when you make the mistake that was an exam. And I could have told you that I did worse than that exam before I my marks came out, and that was 100% accurate. That was my last exam because I knew just didn’t write the plan that went wrong. Um, so yeah, every time holy from now on plan, and you guys plan essays. If you’re writing essays, or even if you’re writing an extended answer something like that planet, please. I don’t do it enough. I need to do it every single time from now on. plan, plan, plan, plan.

plan every time. Okay, you got that now? Yes, I think it’s drilled. That’s five. That’s five of my study habits goals for 2019.

Was it gonna say oh yes me up coming study videos I’m going to be doing I have planned. You see, I plan these things last is I have thoughts about making them kind of famed or where it’s appropriate. I’m going to theme them and I’m going to be answering a question in one study video. For example, I am definitely going to be doing ones where I talk about whether I listen to music or not, when I’m studying one about how I study when I’m out. If you have any specific questions related to studying, please now’s your chance to leave them in the comments down below. And then if you like something someone has suggested that like that comment on the top ones who get priority, see, I’m going to be answering them and I study video so you get me studying and you will also get me answering a question related to studying that some of you guys might all be thinking because we don’t know if we’re all thinking about these things unless somebody writes it down and you guys like that common and we all find out that it’s a big question in the story.

The world also if you take any pictures of yourself studying on notes you know there’s playing bass notes that we all love definitely tag me and hashtag study with Holly be shows data and I can repost some of them the new yeah How did 2018 go too fast I don’t even know 2018 has been it’s not gone it’s 29

Happy New Year to you guys I’m going to say um yeah I will see you in 2019 a house Gary let’s see what happens Be sure to like this video and yeah for new around here you want to join my YouTube little family down please hit the subscribe Matter what type of circumstances that you have been raised in, or have experienced, you always have the ability to find a way out and create success for yourself. And I had to do that in my own life and see all the college students go towards the campus. And I thought to myself, where are they going, what are they doing, why they look different than the rest of people there in the group and and that always kept in the back of my head.

And our mother said, Whatever you do, in order to change your circumstance, you’re gonna have to get an education and so I kept them in the back of my head. I no matter what, I had to educate myself, I had to get a degree at the people that I saw going to the school down the street, that’s something I could do.

And I had that vision I would go to this school that was like in a predominantly well off area, and everyone had books and and paper and really nice shoes. I remember looking at this thinking, Oh, I don’t have any of that and every time I would come back into My neighborhood I would see the graffiti and I’d see the the trash and I thought to myself, what makes a difference? Why are there people here in this situation versus here in this situation, and every single day I’ll come back and it came down to this.



It was the thinking how we think how we look at situations whether or not we see ourselves doing well and being successful or versus if we see ourselves as a not successful person in an environment are thinking defines our life and when we can take hold of our thought and see it for what it is and change it and transform it and change it to convert it into an energy that Alicia’s a brain power that allows us to change a situation that my friend is how we change our lives. And that’s how we change everyone else.

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What happened was I was failing Algebra I fell down for I failed geometry. I failed calculus and chemistry. And there was this calculus teacher that said, All right, I’m going to offer calculus tutoring for anyone who’s willing to come to the campus during the winter break. And I thought everyone was going to show up. There was only myself and I thought to myself, this is such a blessing. And I sat there and I picked his brain.

I’m like, how do we look? What does an integral mean? What does the the tangent mean? What does the instantaneous rate mean? And these are all words for derivative and calculus, and I got just a sit down with them. And that was the first time ever that I realized I was smart. And when I sat with them, it was amazing because I realized what was stopping me was my own fear. It wasn’t it wasn’t anything with my educational aspect.

It was me thinking I could do well in mathematics. And when I learned to remove that fear and think I’m going to do this, no matter what’s going to happen, I may fail. It may not fail it. I’m going to do well at this. And I’m going to just to see where it goes, I’m going to put my all into it and find out and I put my own to fail. But it is something inside of me shifted. I realized failing wasn’t that bad. If I can, if I can, like spend more with more time that I can actually do really well of this. And that was the shift in thinking I’m like, All right, I’m just going to spend some more time and I’m going to actually get this when I overcome my own fear. It was when I was working with someone else and recognizing that the person next to me was the exact mirror of myself. And if I could help that person right next to me. I was hoping myself at the same time and it became this teamwork.

Every single person on my campus need it mathematics. And so I got chance to know everybody on campus McCain one the most popular people because everyone needed mathematics and that confidence that was built from taking something that I failed that before and shifting my thinking about and bracing it to actually create a new reality for myself.

That’s what empower me and that’s to graduate top of my class, which later on open up the door through a series of events, I learned the power that we have in our brain when I overcame so many challenges. When I was launching rockets, of being a woman in in being a one a person of color in a predominantly area that was different than myself.



I had to I had to think differently. I had to think All right, I’m gonna stand out everything that I do is going to have to be twice as good. That’s just the nature of it.

I had to change the way in which I was thinking in order to do that, how am I going to be such a contributing force to this environment that whenever I leave, I’ve made a difference. And when I realized that, and then when I coupled that with the aspect of mathematics, where the same type of math that we use to launch to Mars, the same type of math that we use to literally reshape our own brain, I realized the power of our thoughts when we are aware of where we are, what we’re doing, and more importantly, the decision that we have in front of us the choice in our thought in a situation whatever decision that we make in that full awareness.

That decision itself is a fractal moment in chaos that literally changes the brain at that very moment to restructure it inside of your head so you can unleash your power.



When you look at how are my thoughts going to align with where I want to go and you decide that moment in time where you decide this is a thought that’s going to get me to being a rocket scientists, this is a thought that’s going to get me to be a doctor.

This is not to get me to be a host of my own show I’m whatever it takes I’m going to have all the type of thoughts that’s going to get me closer to where I want to go in the future. When we realize that we have a choice and how we think about things where we have a choice, are we going to be scared about something? Are we going to go forward no matter what’s going to happen.

That is when we unleash this power to you when you are expected to succeed by your mentors or parents or teachers when there is an experimentation on your life to do well.

At an early age you adopted, you address it, you adhere to it, you create it. But if you are never given that opportunity to know what you are capable of doing, if you are never given that, that word, that encouragement This is to know what you can be good at mathematics.

Even though you failed algebra and geometry and calculus, the chemistry which I did, you can actually do well mathematics at if if there’s not someone showing you your worth, when you can’t see it, you will forever be looking in the mirror thinking that you’re not worth what you are when you see exactly what you don’t want.

If you can take the exact opposite of that. That’s how you find out what you do. For example, when we launched rockets, we knew Okay, we didn’t want there to be an explosion out the jacket which was like the side of the rocket, but we wanted the explosion to go down. So we thought, Okay, what is the worst case scenario?

The worst case scenario is okay there will be a kind of tired flames going out where we don’t want to go something like how can we prevent that? How can we focus on where we do want it to go where’s the ideal part for it to go and the ideal part is for the the all the flames to go down the tubes and go through and create a clue.

So what we had to do in that aspect is literally envision exactly what we didn’t want and figure out the chain of events that could possibly get us there to what we don’t want and then go backwards.

The beauty about working in rocket science is that I had the ability to observe genius brands and realize that any of us can gain a genius brain no matter what age we’re at it doesn’t matter forget it what anyone’s ever told you you can gain a smart brain at any age every decision that you make reshapes your brain More powerful the you are in making decision after decision after decision that will power for your brain. Because that makes you really careful about what decisions you make. Like are you super aware when you’re making decisions I’ve learned to become aware to see, all right, this is where I want to go, how is this decision going to help me get there, it’s always keeping that in the back of their head, like, this is where I’m going to go. And I’d made the decision very early in life that no matter where I was, I was going to change it. I was going to change it. So I would leave my mark to be able to help in a very powerful way. So people after I leave would be able to make their own mark and in building in a way in which was going to be very powerful for their life.



If you’re a person in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, that Lord stem going to do it. There’s such a overwhelming need for you. You have the ability to see the big picture.

You have the ability not only to do the mathematics, but you have the ability to see a big picture and user communication skills in order for people to see how important concepts are. So that is the gift that you bring if you have the opportunity to go into that. Do it.

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How to make awesome grades while studying in school

Let me just say it was a real struggle figuring out I wanted to feel with like the viewers the background but then the lighting was all under my desk was messy so I didn’t want to have that as a background. So here we are, I’ve got my studio lights up to help support me so I’m hoping that this video turns out okay.

Anyways, as you can see for the title today I’m going to be doing a video all about how to do well at university so I’m going to be talking more about the academic side of things. So once I’ve always talking about the social aspects and the partying on my channel, so I thought I’d bring it back a little and actually give some academic advice. I’m going to be discussing study tips, ways to get organized how to keep on top of things.

So if you’re looking forward to the video, make sure the thumbs up button if you are an idea I would like to see more of my videos don’t forget to

the subscribe button down below and click the subscribe button so it will push notifications are that fair review let’s just go ahead and jump straight into the Tips.

So my first tip on how to do what a university is definitely getting organized and remaining organized throughout the year I’m the best way to do this is getting a plan. Our panelists are so important in helping to keep up with things and knowing what your schedule is week two we actually just get mine from TK Maxx.
Let me just say it was a real struggle figuring out I wanted to feel with like the viewers the background but then the lighting was all under my desk was messy so I didn’t want to have that as a background. So here we are, I’ve got my studio lights up to help support me so I’m hoping that this video turns out okay.

Anyways, as you can see for the title today I’m going to be doing a video all about how to do well at university so I’m going to be talking more about the academic side of things. So once I’ve always talking about the social aspects and the partying on my channel, so I thought I’d bring it back a little and actually give some academic advice. I’m going to be discussing study tips, ways to get organized how to keep on top of things.

So if you’re looking forward to the video, make sure the thumbs up button if you are an idea I would like to see more of my videos don’t forget to

the subscribe button down below and click the subscribe button so it will push notifications are that fair review let’s just go ahead and jump straight into the Tips.

So my first tip on how to do what a university is definitely getting organized and remaining organized throughout the year I’m the best way to do this is getting a plan. Our panelists are so important in helping to keep up with things and knowing what your schedule is week two we actually just get mine from TK Maxx.

I believe this whole candles literally free costs 99 amazing we are getting a tonight is definitely an essential when it comes to university. It’s a great way to see when you have your lectures when you have deadlines, assignments, etc. Particularly in the first time of university it’s very hard to keep up with things because on top of going to lectures you’re also doing societies are going out we’re making friends and socializing and so from that when you’re not keeping track of what you’re supposed to be doing it is very very easy to forget things or forget you have that 9am often get that your assignment still friday so to avoid anything like that happening. I definitely

about getting a planner if you don’t like to write down things it doesn’t necessarily have to be a physical one like the one I showed you I mean there’s so many apps we can actually just use the note section on your iPhone I used to do that all the time via regardless of performance we’re doing yeah I definitely recommend having a plan on write down everything keep on top of thing and ensure that you know exactly what you’re meant to demean each week.

The next tip I’m going to be talking about is something I’ve been doing it since like year nine I want to say by any found out the actual time for this morning apparently it’s called the halo so what the halo effect basically is, is that when you first school or university within the first couple of weeks, just how you’re forming an opinion of your class and your teacher. The teacher is also doing the exact same thing with their students at it from day one of your lectures about the front of the class engagement for teacher having the eye contact, paying up your hand to ask a question for teacher it’s going to immediately see as like a good shooter, someone who’s very keen in the subject, someone that really wants to do well.

Essentially someone that they like. Whereas if you’re sitting in the back of the class, which is a bit noisy, oh, like a group of friends than your teacher might just think, okay, I always recommend getting close on time it’s sitting at the front. I’m just kind of engaging with your teacher from the get go find that once you establish a good connection with your lecture are live on his they get so much easier, they’re often more willing to go above and beyond when it comes to answer your questions. I hope out because they know that you’re genuinely interested in the subject.

But personally I love most about this halo effect is that once you spend a few weeks establishing that good bond that get connection for the rest of the year, I find that you can kind of get away with more things that if you miss your lecture, for some reason, I feel like maybe they’re bit more understanding because they know that you wouldn’t miss it for a stupid reason. You know, they’re just a bit more lenient and understanding throughout the year. So definitely recommend being a good student. Usually at the start of time let your team know that you’re really keen on wants to do well.

Tip number three is more of a study tab and something which I strongly recommend it

And that is pre reading before you going to close this is something I did more towards the end of my A Levels and found it so so helpful that I wish I did it before so it’s definitely something which I recommend doing from the very start University is if you’re unaware of what pre reading so it’s basically reading up on the topic that you’re going to be studying in class I find that doing this makes your lectures make it so much more sense because you’re not trying to grasp everything for the first time we’ve actually already had some prior knowledge so it’s more so confirming it reiterating it and just allow yourself to understand the topic so much better so for my personal University which has a lot of you guys know it is University of the Arts London London College of fashion my uni we have this include noodle where our teachers but done exactly what topic we’re going to be doing each week and I often already have like the reading materials out there if I need that I’m going to do in crisis management for example I can go on to the regional is for that topic and just have every little bit before class so that one are actually in class it will make a bit more sense and what’s amazing about pre reading is I honestly doesn’t have to be long at all actually just fine. minutes of skim reading is enough, it’s just something to do that you just have an overview of the topic before you learn a more in depth. So that hopefully makes it more sense.

You can literally do it on your way to lecture as well sure, having breakfast it doesn’t have to be a task that you have to go to the library for, can literally just do it on the go. And if for some reason your university hasn’t published by the reading materials for it, or like resources that you can use your goal is the thing and I you can actually just type in on Google happened over through and hopefully that allow things to make so much more sense to you.

The fourth tip for today’s video is also a study tip and that is to clarify any doubts that you have immediately say when it comes to university, things move pretty quickly. And so if you’re in class and you don’t understand the topic and you know asking questions because you think it will make sense closer towards exam period or whatever the chances are by the time you get to exam here is will also have certainly other topics that you’re unsure about. I was just getting to the point where you physically don’t have time to go over everything again.

So my best piece of advice to all Asked Questions that maybe don’t understand something obviously for teachers just introduce the topic way into she finishes explaining it until you ask a question but at the end of that class you’re like wait a sec I actually don’t understand this concept either asking cause then in that because chances are other students didn’t understand over you asked that question in front of everyone over may be beneficial to the other students that if you’re perhaps shy or the transition classes past, definitely stay back to the end of the class to ask you a lecture about it. Or if you have tutorials or university awesome then in that as well.

But honestly, the Wise we can do is just leave and definitely want to make sure that you just understand things as you go along that by the time you get to your assessments or sound, you already know the content and you can just focus on exactly the thing I’m going to talk about in today’s video lectures. Lecture.

Our lectures is the lecture Do I go to university? I don’t know. But yeah, in terms of lectures, first and foremost, go to a lecture. It’s like maybe it’s because I never had 9am Like all of my lectures, I don’t some people don’t go to lectures, it’s so much easier to just sit in a room for like an hour and a half then to stay at home and cut off your lecture on your laptop and be making notes and not really understanding what’s going on. Even if we’re completely hung over or you just can’t be bothered. Just drop yourself into unique it’s literally about to sit there like arms folded, and just listen and then to be at home and not greater than lecture and then catch up later while you frantically trying to make notes and piece everything together. Like it’s just not worth it. So personally just go to other artists in my opinion, but the second thing and tells the lectures it’s definitely make good to know one thing that took me quite a long time to graph is that you generally don’t need to write down everything that’s on the board. Literally just write down the most important point I know that if you’re like me that it’s quite hard not to do because you want to get down all of the information but learning to make condensed notes from the get go. It is definitely something which is beneficial because it saves you from condensing your classmates later on in the year and it was me so if you’re looking for quick



information of the answers you can easily find a bullet point which has it as opposed to having to like dissect your class know another thing which makes your lecture notes really amazing is using color I know it’s quite long to bring like a whole purpose okay sometimes so I recommend getting those pens that have like the color wheels around it but you can click for like red and then click for blue and then click for black I love phase I’m making and so if that’s something that’s really important I’ll quickly just switch to read and write that impressive it sounds out there again we’ll come back to your notes you know what’s really important and what keywords you either yeah those are my tips which I hope really hope he was at university also have them a quick and simple it’s really good to just reiterate them and have them fresh in your mind before you start going to an active if you did find the city are helpful if you learn something new then I’d love if you could hit the thumbs up button and let me know in the comments down below if you Are any of you enjoyed the video just getting the scroll down below upload new videos every single Wednesday and Sunday. Yeah that is basically the end of today’s tips. Thank you guys so much for reading and I’ll see you in my next one.
I believe this whole candles literally free costs 99 amazing we are getting a tonight is definitely an essential when it comes to university. It’s a great way to see when you have your lectures when you have deadlines, assignments, etc. Particularly in the first time of university it’s very hard to keep up with things because on top of going to lectures you’re also doing societies are going out we’re making friends and socializing and so from that when you’re not keeping track of what you’re supposed to be doing it is very very easy to forget things or forget you have that 9am often get that your assignment still friday so to avoid anything like that happening. I definitely

about getting a planner if you don’t like to write down things it doesn’t necessarily have to be a physical one like the one I showed you I mean there’s so many apps we can actually just use the note section on your iPhone I used to do that all the time via regardless of performance we’re doing yeah I definitely recommend having a plan on write down everything keep on top of thing and ensure that you know exactly what you’re meant to demean each week.

The next tip I’m going to be talking about is something I’ve been doing it since like year nine I want to say by any found out the actual time for this morning apparently it’s called the halo so what the halo effect basically is, is that when you first school or university within the first couple of weeks, just how you’re forming an opinion of your class and your teacher. The teacher is also doing the exact same thing with their students at it from day one of your lectures about the front of the class engagement for teacher having the eye contact, paying up your hand to ask a question for teacher it’s going to immediately see as like a good shooter, someone who’s very keen in the subject, someone that really wants to do well.

Essentially someone that they like. Whereas if you’re sitting in the back of the class, which is a bit noisy, oh, like a group of friends than your teacher might just think, okay, I always recommend getting close on time it’s sitting at the front. I’m just kind of engaging with your teacher from the get go find that once you establish a good connection with your lecture are live on his they get so much easier, they’re often more willing to go above and beyond when it comes to answer your questions. I hope out because they know that you’re genuinely interested in the subject.

But personally I love most about this halo effect is that once you spend a few weeks establishing that good bond that get connection for the rest of the year, I find that you can kind of get away with more things that if you miss your lecture, for some reason, I feel like maybe they’re bit more understanding because they know that you wouldn’t miss it for a stupid reason. You know, they’re just a bit more lenient and understanding throughout the year. So definitely recommend being a good student. Usually at the start of time let your team know that you’re really keen on wants to do well.

Tip number three is more of a study tab and something which I strongly recommend it

And that is pre reading before you going to close this is something I did more towards the end of my A Levels and found it so so helpful that I wish I did it before so it’s definitely something which I recommend doing from the very start University is if you’re unaware of what pre reading so it’s basically reading up on the topic that you’re going to be studying in class I find that doing this makes your lectures make it so much more sense because you’re not trying to grasp everything for the first time we’ve actually already had some prior knowledge so it’s more so confirming it reiterating it and just allow yourself to understand the topic so much better so for my personal University which has a lot of you guys know it is University of the Arts London London College of fashion my uni we have this include noodle where our teachers but done exactly what topic we’re going to be doing each week and I often already have like the reading materials out there if I need that I’m going to do in crisis management for example I can go on to the regional is for that topic and just have every little bit before class so that one are actually in class it will make a bit more sense and what’s amazing about pre reading is I honestly doesn’t have to be long at all actually just fine. minutes of skim reading is enough, it’s just something to do that you just have an overview of the topic before you learn a more in depth. So that hopefully makes it more sense.

You can literally do it on your way to lecture as well sure, having breakfast it doesn’t have to be a task that you have to go to the library for, can literally just do it on the go. And if for some reason your university hasn’t published by the reading materials for it, or like resources that you can use your goal is the thing and I you can actually just type in on Google happened over through and hopefully that allow things to make so much more sense to you.

The fourth tip for today’s video is also a study tip and that is to clarify any doubts that you have immediately say when it comes to university, things move pretty quickly. And so if you’re in class and you don’t understand the topic and you know asking questions because you think it will make sense closer towards exam period or whatever the chances are by the time you get to exam here is will also have certainly other topics that you’re unsure about. I was just getting to the point where you physically don’t have time to go over everything again.

So my best piece of advice to all Asked Questions that maybe don’t understand something obviously for teachers just introduce the topic way into she finishes explaining it until you ask a question but at the end of that class you’re like wait a sec I actually don’t understand this concept either asking cause then in that because chances are other students didn’t understand over you asked that question in front of everyone over may be beneficial to the other students that if you’re perhaps shy or the transition classes past, definitely stay back to the end of the class to ask you a lecture about it. Or if you have tutorials or university awesome then in that as well.

But honestly, the Wise we can do is just leave and definitely want to make sure that you just understand things as you go along that by the time you get to your assessments or sound, you already know the content and you can just focus on exactly the thing I’m going to talk about in today’s video lectures. Lecture.

Our lectures is the lecture Do I go to university? I don’t know. But yeah, in terms of lectures, first and foremost, go to a lecture. It’s like maybe it’s because I never had 9am Like all of my lectures, I don’t some people don’t go to lectures, it’s so much easier to just sit in a room for like an hour and a half then to stay at home and cut off your lecture on your laptop and be making notes and not really understanding what’s going on. Even if we’re completely hung over or you just can’t be bothered. Just drop yourself into unique it’s literally about to sit there like arms folded, and just listen and then to be at home and not greater than lecture and then catch up later while you frantically trying to make notes and piece everything together. Like it’s just not worth it. So personally just go to other artists in my opinion, but the second thing and tells the lectures it’s definitely make good to know one thing that took me quite a long time to graph is that you generally don’t need to write down everything that’s on the board. Literally just write down the most important point I know that if you’re like me that it’s quite hard not to do because you want to get down all of the information but learning to make condensed notes from the get go. It is definitely something which is beneficial because it saves you from condensing your classmates later on in the year and it was me so if you’re looking for quick



information of the answers you can easily find a bullet point which has it as opposed to having to like dissect your class know another thing which makes your lecture notes really amazing is using color I know it’s quite long to bring like a whole purpose okay sometimes so I recommend getting those pens that have like the color wheels around it but you can click for like red and then click for blue and then click for black I love phase I’m making and so if that’s something that’s really important I’ll quickly just switch to read and write that impressive it sounds out there again we’ll come back to your notes you know what’s really important and what keywords you either yeah those are my tips which I hope really hope he was at university also have them a quick and simple it’s really good to just reiterate them and have them fresh in your mind before you start going to an active if you did find the city are helpful if you learn something new then I’d love if you could hit the thumbs up button and let me know in the comments down below if you Are any of you enjoyed the video just getting the scroll down below upload new videos every single Wednesday and Sunday. Yeah that is basically the end of today’s tips. Thank you guys so much for reading and I’ll see you in my next one.

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How To Get 95 Percent In Board Exam, Effective Study Techniques.

Hello, my Socratic of friends. We’re here to help you be a great student. Here’s a personal question do you make new year’s resolutions we do both in January, and at the start of the school year, which feels like another new year, doesn’t it? It’s a great feeling, getting a fresh start and thinking about how to improve. That’s really the whole point of the series, isn’t it. So let’s talk about how to make resolutions and how to keep resolutions. First, let’s think about what makes a good resolution. I’m not going to resolve to become president of NASA that’s just not reasonable. A good resolution is one that is actually achievable with a little focused effort on your part. This should also be something that is personally important to you. Make sure your heart is really in it. I’m not personally excited by marathons so I’m not going to make a resolution to take up running my resolutions always seem to be about learning something big surprise here. Don’t make a resolution that’s vague, like I’m going to get healthy or I’ll be a better student pick something very specific you Want to accomplish? break it down into small, concrete doable actions. As in if I want to get better grades, I will set aside 30 minutes every day after class to review my lecture notes. Or if I want to prove my Japanese reading skills, I will study 10 Japanese characters every day, I’ll be able to take very specific actions. To keep this resolution I’ll put 10 flash cards in my pocket every morning. That makes it easy to pull them out and study a little when I’m taking a coffee break done. Another way to pick a resolution is to think about what’s a good habit you want to adopt. I want to take a 20 minute walk every day. Exercise is good for the brain. It reduces stress and it’s a good way to spend breaks between Pompadour sessions. If I genuinely stick to taking a walk in the fresh air every day. I’m going to be much healthier by the end of the year and I’ll have develop the kind of habit that could last a lifetime. Or maybe there’s a bad habit you want to break if you smoke. You really, really I mean, really, you should stop it sticks. It’s expensive.

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It causes cancer. What bad habits do you have? I personally don’t have any. Not that I know. Never heard of them. Now don’t go overboard, trying to remake yourself into a completely different person. Pick one thing, okay, maybe two things. But that’s it. It’s much easier to keep track of one resolution than a whole bunch of them. Especially since people who break resolutions often say it’s because they’re just too busy. There’s just too much going on in my life to pay attention to well, don’t let that happen to you. Let’s keep it real simple. Every day. I’m putting 10 flash cards in my pocket. How hard can that be? It helps if you keep track of your progress. Have you heard of this trick from Seinfeld Don’t break the chain. If you mark off every day successfully kept your resolution on a calendar you see a growing chain of accomplishments. It please a nice little trick on your brain. You can see how much good work you’ve done and you don’t want to mess it up. It’s a little added incentive to keep going. Don’t break the chain.

Our friend Simone Gertz you’ve probably seen her work making interesting robots made a beautiful engineered version of the resolution calendar. You can find it on Kickstarter. It’s seriously like a work of art. Every time you do your resolution, you get to light up a day. And she made this beautiful thing to help her keep her resolution to meditate every day for a year to make that a new healthy habit. And it totally worked for her. Okay, that gives us an idea for another video. How do you meditate? That’s a really useful skill to help you be a great student. Okay, stay tuned, coming soon from Socratic.

Oh, but what if you do break the chain? Don’t beat yourself up, get back on the horse. Tomorrow is another day. Anyway, perfectionism is overrated. If you succeed for 350 days of the year. Isn’t that something to be proud of? Compared with last year? Yeah, remember to be kind to yourself, how would you treat a friend who slipped up you’d be understanding and encouraging be that person for yourself. Another thing that can help is to keep a daily

journal entry about your resolution, make a note of the days that were easy. What did you do that made it so easy? Think about the days that were really hard. Can you figure out what made it hard? Did you forget to pack a healthy lunch? And so you got fast food. instead? Did you forget to write down your assignment in your planner so you didn’t write your paper until the last minute. This kind of self reflection can lead the way to real change where it becomes easier and easier to make a resolution. The true habit is something you always do as a regular part of your life. Have you heard the standard wisdom that it takes 21 days to make a new habit? Okay, we’ll talk here that’s pretty made up number we read that this number came from Maxwell mots, a plastic surgeon who studied amputees in the 60s and he found it took about 21 days for them to adjust to their new routine, missing a limb. Therefore it takes 21 days to adjust to a new habit. That’s a pretty big leap right there max. More recently, psychologist Philippa lolly formally studied habit formation and found that it took on average 66 days to form and

habit, there was a huge variance. However, some tasks were easier and took as little as 18 days to become second nature, while others were more challenging and took as long as 245 days. So don’t worry if you don’t find yourself measuring up to some arbitrary standard. It doesn’t sound like there is one. What else can you do to make it more likely for you to succeed and keeping your resolution, let the people around you help you. It can be much easier to make these changes in your life. If everyone around you is on board. Tell your friends and family what your resolution is. That is if they are genuinely supportive. We know there are some people out there who may not want to see you change for the better. That’s the sad truth about human nature. Please don’t let this stop you. If you feel you need to keep your resolution to yourself. That’s okay too. What’s your New Year’s resolution? Is it something we can help you with? Let us know in the comments below. We’re all learning and growing. Here. At Socratic. We make new year’s resolutions because it’s a little stretch toward becoming that person you’re proud to be.

It’s all part of being a great student. One of our new year’s resolutions here at Socratic is to grow a little bigger so we can make more videos for you. Would you like to help us if you find the work we do here valuable, please consider supporting us on Patreon. With your help we’ll be able to grow our team. Thank you. Hello, welcome back. I’m going to share my 2019 study Guide. I thought since everyone is starting a new semester at school with fresh focus, it would be beneficial to define our city goals for this year. And I just kind of want to bring everyone on the right track to have a productive next 12 months. I spoken about the studying amino app before I can’t find my phone currently, or otherwise, I’ll show you here, but can you see it on the screen. But I’ve had gone there to reconnect with these guys and kind of share my studying and school journey and just like share my story and photos because I love doing those as you might have seen on Instagram. If you search my username, Yusuf, you can find my page and a blog post where you can ask me anything. And I’m going to answer the most interesting cues. Oh, and if you haven’t heard about amino before, they’re a diverse network of communities that unites people with friends that share the same passion like productivity and studying so to check out my q&a and follow my goals on setting amino you can click the link in the description.

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Check out the painter to common follow the prompts download the app or you could just search an app store or find me on there with my username so now let’s get into my goals for school

This is usually have charm but I wear sweaters when we’re kind of warm. So yep okay so I think the roles help you guys to kind of more see my perspective phones who are now for the last two months I’ve just gotten a whole new mindset about my priorities and how school needs to rewind my priorities to reach my first goal which is passing school and it’s my last year

I have five months ago. It’s just crazy.

And honestly, I’m just not sure if I see myself passing but I have the courage to just go for it and give my best.

And I definitely wanted to say that I gave my best to that’s going to be my pursuit. And that’s my first goal number two gold kind of goes with that. And this is maybe something more people can relate with. And it’s having a good relationship with studying that just seems not to even make sense because it’s like studying you know, but I feel like if we already spent so much time sitting at a desk, you just kind of take away from your life if it isn’t something you can enjoy or at least just be okay with. That’s one of the things I want to talk about more in the future How can you make study more attractive to yourself and how can you spend your time doing it effectively saving time and just feeling better about it so this can be one of your goals feel good about studying and not hated my goal is just all kind of seem a bit more low key but they’re actually you know, a big deal in my book and it’s to pass all my classes before my

final exams. So I have about three or four classes where I don’t have the passing rates a passing grade. So the grades for us is it goes from one to six and four is passing grade. And in three or four subjects I don’t have a for it can seem so hopeless. But it seems hopeless to me right now, like my math grade and my physics grade. But as I said, I’m not giving up and I’m just going to try and I also just want to share that with you guys. Because even though I may have to study content and all this content on being productive, I suck at school and I just want to be grateful for an opportunity and let’s just make the best out of it. Okay, number four, again, goes with this goal, and it is to get help in those subjects. Let’s just all be self aware and know what we need to happen. And one goal for you guys which is be to ask for help. Just be aware of

What don’t you know and know that your teachers that’s their job to help you. And if teachers don’t have that capacity because their personality or because your mindset make sure that you get help. So that’s what I’m going to be doing. Yeah, I just had to make the camera lighter. But my last study goal is to be present during lessons. And I know that everyone kind of has lessons where it’s more chill and it’s kind of their time to catch up with their friends.

But let’s, let’s use our time efficiently. And the more you get into your brain during assessing the less you need to do after being active during classes is one of my goals. But those are the things that motivate me. And those are the things that I want to put in front of my mind and to be reminded off daily desktop. I’ve written them down and I definitely recommend you guys to write down your goals.

Thank you for reading this study tips of a be talking about who goes out Why does my tummy her I think too much but let’s hope I passed his school year and I’m sending you good as energies. I’m coming to you with a tips very soon I’m going to give you guys live updates and just talk about my life and sing that song. See you soon. Peace out.Salaam aleikum RG page to have those special Jojo many viewers a tips up Nepal remarkable the acne inshallah both helpful video is freedom out to the cake toppers castle castle top cars are there or do I am thrilled to top CUNY garbage the garbage good doctors are not toppers top Carnegie Versa but the important reason but I don’t care topper stop there or do it every student I will average also bichara who read at the top or bottom up Component button to bottom batanga team rarely do 333 barely both important to do three view is are they important or two to three oppose the other important bother in team bottom up nigga implement here to inshallah the top ranked school may up Nick last make college may universities birthday can he be a birthday Zulu inshallah subset of belly Bertha many of whom are so many students do their own cubicle top to bottom longer to get some key se como si are teaching jujitsu top quality also average and only a sequence the bottom to top opportunity or Omen Haiti will be up to bottle to inshallah customer who say Pele I get up this channel a new way to please naps a request Kurt Nokia subscribe Carlo clipboard helpful channel hookah medically bright bionic leg and Joe map to bottom but the reality based on the data or YouTube the whole sector Mexico D motivate and encourage like and Joe map to live Kelly up to future and what karma inshallah subscribe car or a video person that likes Galena please 200 likes

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Year’s Resolutions for Students Study Tips

Hello, my Socratic of friends. We’re here to help you be a great student. Here’s a personal question do you make new year’s resolutions we do both in January, and at the start of the school year, which feels like another new year, doesn’t it? It’s a great feeling, getting a fresh start and thinking about how to improve. That’s really the whole point of the series, isn’t it. So let’s talk about how to make resolutions and how to keep resolutions. First, let’s think about what makes a good resolution. I’m not going to resolve to become president of NASA that’s just not reasonable. A good resolution is one that is actually achievable with a little focused effort on your part. This should also be something that is personally important to you. Make sure your heart is really in it. I’m not personally excited by marathons so I’m not going to make a resolution to take up running my resolutions always seem to be about learning something big surprise here. Don’t make a resolution that’s vague, like I’m going to get healthy or I’ll be a better student pick something very specific you Want to accomplish? break it down into small, concrete doable actions. As in if I want to get better grades, I will set aside 30 minutes every day after class to review my lecture notes. Or if I want to prove my Japanese reading skills, I will study 10 Japanese characters every day, I’ll be able to take very specific actions. To keep this resolution I’ll put 10 flash cards in my pocket every morning. That makes it easy to pull them out and study a little when I’m taking a coffee break done. Another way to pick a resolution is to think about what’s a good habit you want to adopt. I want to take a 20 minute walk every day. Exercise is good for the brain. It reduces stress and it’s a good way to spend breaks between Pompadour sessions. If I genuinely stick to taking a walk in the fresh air every day. I’m going to be much healthier by the end of the year and I’ll have develop the kind of habit that could last a lifetime. Or maybe there’s a bad habit you want to break if you smoke. You really, really I mean, really, you should stop it sticks. It’s expensive.

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It causes cancer. What bad habits do you have? I personally don’t have any. Not that I know. Never heard of them. Now don’t go overboard, trying to remake yourself into a completely different person. Pick one thing, okay, maybe two things. But that’s it. It’s much easier to keep track of one resolution than a whole bunch of them. Especially since people who break resolutions often say it’s because they’re just too busy. There’s just too much going on in my life to pay attention to well, don’t let that happen to you. Let’s keep it real simple. Every day. I’m putting 10 flash cards in my pocket. How hard can that be? It helps if you keep track of your progress. Have you heard of this trick from Seinfeld Don’t break the chain. If you mark off every day successfully kept your resolution on a calendar you see a growing chain of accomplishments. It please a nice little trick on your brain. You can see how much good work you’ve done and you don’t want to mess it up. It’s a little added incentive to keep going. Don’t break the chain.

Our friend Simone Gertz you’ve probably seen her work making interesting robots made a beautiful engineered version of the resolution calendar. You can find it on Kickstarter. It’s seriously like a work of art. Every time you do your resolution, you get to light up a day. And she made this beautiful thing to help her keep her resolution to meditate every day for a year to make that a new healthy habit. And it totally worked for her. Okay, that gives us an idea for another video. How do you meditate? That’s a really useful skill to help you be a great student. Okay, stay tuned, coming soon from Socratic.

Oh, but what if you do break the chain? Don’t beat yourself up, get back on the horse. Tomorrow is another day. Anyway, perfectionism is overrated. If you succeed for 350 days of the year. Isn’t that something to be proud of? Compared with last year? Yeah, remember to be kind to yourself, how would you treat a friend who slipped up you’d be understanding and encouraging be that person for yourself. Another thing that can help is to keep a daily

journal entry about your resolution, make a note of the days that were easy. What did you do that made it so easy? Think about the days that were really hard. Can you figure out what made it hard? Did you forget to pack a healthy lunch? And so you got fast food. instead? Did you forget to write down your assignment in your planner so you didn’t write your paper until the last minute. This kind of self reflection can lead the way to real change where it becomes easier and easier to make a resolution. The true habit is something you always do as a regular part of your life. Have you heard the standard wisdom that it takes 21 days to make a new habit? Okay, we’ll talk here that’s pretty made up number we read that this number came from Maxwell mots, a plastic surgeon who studied amputees in the 60s and he found it took about 21 days for them to adjust to their new routine, missing a limb. Therefore it takes 21 days to adjust to a new habit. That’s a pretty big leap right there max. More recently, psychologist Philippa lolly formally studied habit formation and found that it took on average 66 days to form and

habit, there was a huge variance. However, some tasks were easier and took as little as 18 days to become second nature, while others were more challenging and took as long as 245 days. So don’t worry if you don’t find yourself measuring up to some arbitrary standard. It doesn’t sound like there is one. What else can you do to make it more likely for you to succeed and keeping your resolution, let the people around you help you. It can be much easier to make these changes in your life. If everyone around you is on board. Tell your friends and family what your resolution is. That is if they are genuinely supportive. We know there are some people out there who may not want to see you change for the better. That’s the sad truth about human nature. Please don’t let this stop you. If you feel you need to keep your resolution to yourself. That’s okay too. What’s your New Year’s resolution? Is it something we can help you with? Let us know in the comments below. We’re all learning and growing. Here. At Socratic. We make new year’s resolutions because it’s a little stretch toward becoming that person you’re proud to be.

It’s all part of being a great student. One of our new year’s resolutions here at Socratic is to grow a little bigger so we can make more videos for you. Would you like to help us if you find the work we do here valuable, please consider supporting us on Patreon. With your help we’ll be able to grow our team. Thank you.

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Planners for University Students 2019

Good morning everyone. So today I have something very fun that I’m looking forward to filminit is time to finally invest in a new diary for 2019 I get such a kick out of doing these things. So I’m going to take you shopping with me to find the perfect diary or planner and probably pick up a few extra organizational items. And I’m also thinking of maybe getting a few little goodies for you guys and doing a little giveaway I might do it on Instagram. So stay tuned throughout this video and I’ll let you know more details. But did you notice something different about me? Maybe, maybe not. I got new glasses finally. So if you didn’t know I actually lost my favorite pink pair of frames on the airplane. When I was coming down to Melbourne from Sydney. There was the one thing that I misplaced as I was packing up my entire life so I think I did pretty well but glasses usa.com have come to my rescue. I said me so.

many pairs of glasses I just have to show you this I have glasses drawer right now I’m very excited so as you probably know we’re currently in an Airbnb just for a few more weeks but I had to clean out one of these jewels, my glasses because they sent me six pitches. So I actually think they Sonny’s one of my favorites the ones I’m wearing and also these pink ones Oh and if anyone’s Hilary Duff and she actually did a collaboration with us for glasses usa.com is I have to have her different designs I think there’s over at to choose from there there little bit more expensive than these ones. So I often spend way too much on my glasses. I was really surprised how cheap they are though. So there’s free basic prescription lenses included and frames and lenses started like 30 bucks which is amazing because I used to spend so much on my glasses so I really appreciate being able to save right now and you’re probably thinking okay but clearly you don’t like all six I can’t all fit really nicely. I kid you not. I love I had this little virtual mirror where you can upload a photo of yourself or you can check

out the glasses and the frames on another person’s face. It has a similar shape to yours and you can actually see if they’re going to sit you or not. So they sent me six pairs. I promise you all six look really good and I’m so happy with them. Also, I thought we do a fun little vote between all of my favorite peers. I want to know which ones you prefer the most. We’ve got option one,

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option two. I think these are so cool. I’ve never had clear white plastic frames or option three the pink ones these are very similar to the ones that I had that were my original favorite color which one is your favor guys so if you like my new look, let me know down below but now it’s time to get serious with this video because we’re about to replace my new baby My all baby Why did I say new is not new is a year old and he seemed to be out of date. So I’ve got some pretty strict criteria for what makes for the perfect diary. Yes, I’m pretty hard to place Yeah, but let’s head to one of my favorite stationery stores.

And hopefully I can find the right one for 2019. And look number four. Let’s head out the door.

I’m arriving today I losing my bubbles.

I think I was browsing through the diaries for over half an hour, but I’m really happy with my purchases. So that was a successful little shopping spree, the lady kkk was so helpful and friendly, I picked up a few things that I think are going to make 2019 so much more organized and I’m really excited to show you what I bought and I also picked up a few little prizes for you guys as well so stay tuned for that I’m back and I have to goody bags or one is for me and one is for you. Or it could be yours if you win my little giveaway.

So I’m going to run it on Instagram, I’ve decided. So if you’re not following me at study with Jess, go and follow me now. And I will have all the details for how you can enter to win some very cool little goodies on my Instagram account. So just make sure to be active and checking out my latest post an Instagram story because details will be there. But let me show you what I picked up. All right, let’s start with the diary. Now. Can I just say last year I wanted this exact diary. And I didn’t have it in stock anymore because they only had the weekly layout and not the daily. So let me explain why I chose the stars specifically because I have wanted this one for ages. Right. So the first race that I chose this story is that it has a day per page says plenty of room tried everything down and it has the timestamp in it as well starts at 7am but there’s actually room to write for six or 5am and it finishes at nine but you can also write a little bit later than that and there is a note section as well.

As a line for birthdays now I always need extra room for my reminders my to do’s birthdays when people are traveling where Adam and I travel a lot for work. So I like to keep track of that. And the last year I had this one here, it actually didn’t have any timestamps, so I would write things down, and then I have another appointment that’s a little bit earlier and I’d have to cross it out or raise it and rewrite it because I just didn’t have time to go through 365 pages and number them from 7am to 9pm. It’s just really, really inconvenient for me, whereas this one’s going to save me a lot of time and I think it’s going to be easier to keep tidy and organized. Okay, this is really cool. I’m actually discovering it in more detail as I’m sharing it with all of you, but it has a note section. It has a page for listing website and notes about those sites, books, so section track down titles and authors. If you get book recommendations, you can store them their restaurants and bars, there is a section for riding down and tracking your expenses.

But I did buy something else to use instead of this area of my diary to track my spending. I will share that with you soon. And then when I was in the store I asked the lady if they have any loose leaf shades of stickers to just mark any important things in your diary and she turned to the back of this diary and says to me, um, it already comes with them. How awesome is that? So I’m just really excited to start using my new diary and I think it actually starts for December so I could get cracking right away. It does Wow. The little things that get me excited. Alright, so you know how I said I bought something instead of using the diary section to track my expenses. This is it so it says everyday is a fresh start and it is a photo of organizing all of your receipts and spending so the lady in the store recommended this to me because she uses the same and ha every accountant is going to love me in 2019 and I’m definitely

going to be a lot more on top of my spending and more savvy with how I spend my money. So it comes with different stickers, you can organize all of these following photos according to the months of the year. I think that’s how I’m going to do it rather than different categories. And you just write down the date, the amount of money you spent text involved and the details for items that receipt and you’ve got their seat in the back right so last thing I bought for myself is a wall calendar and actually have this one for 2018. I thought it came in handy so much I want one for next year as well. It does have some beautiful quotes for each month. As you can see on the back that’s little way out there. And I just think I prefer to have a monthly calendar above my desk. Rather than using the monthly spread in my diary, I’ll probably use that monthly spread as well. But I think this is easier just to map out everything and it helps you to feel less overwhelmed especially when you have a really busy month because you can break it all down and say that even though there’s a lot going on, it’s probably early according to specific weeks or days and little chunks throughout the month. It’s not usually a really flat out month although December has been pretty busy for me. So I do think I’m going to use this a lot and I can’t wait to hang it up in Adam and my new apartment. So what little goodies did I pick up for the giveaway. I’ve got two things in here. First thing is the 2019 at daily view diary, which I picked up for myself as well in the past or pink. I just really liked the land and format of the story. I think it’s going to help you stay more organized and there’s plenty of room to write everything down. And then to help you write everything down. I also picked up these really really cute pens says one with ladybirds, one with cats, rainbows and hearts and one with cherries. And I thought that was just a really cute little giveaway to kick start your 2019 So again, just follow me on Instagram and you can check out the details for how to enter their at study with just and also I will leave a link down below of all the glasses that I showed you earlier in this video, including the ones I’m wearing now. Thanks to glasses. usa.com. So do check.

them out. And don’t forget to tune in next week for another video. Just turn on your notifications and I’ll see you very soon.

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Mistakes First Year Med Students Make

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And if you want to these medical students that are making these mistakes, like stop like yesterday, please for your sake, but I’m going to talk to you and the most common mistakes that students make six in particular that med students including myself made and it kind of ruins your medical experience because you carry these bad habits throughout. So yeah. Q intro



so six mistakes that first year medical students make now honestly, there’s more than six, but these are the most common, honestly, the most detrimental. So Mistake number one students come in with our predetermine mindset. Now this won’t be every single student but you’ll know who the students are because day one

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They’ll start saying that they want to become a dermatologist, orthopedic surgeon slashed astronauts slash radiologists. Now if you can manage to make those work all power to you, but it’s not about choosing competitive specialties are having high goals. The problem is, is when you have high goals, but then you use it as a crutch throughout your for you experience a why you can’t enjoy the rest of med school.

So these are the students who won’t come out on a Friday night or hang out with their friends and family on a weekend because they need to study or catch up. As I mentioned, they have high achieving goals, which is great and all of you should have those if you aspire to do one of these competitive specialties.

But as soon as you start making every little excuse you can find because all you want to get out of med school is becoming a dermatologist and orthopedic surgeon, a vascular surgeon, whatever you can think of.

That’s when medical school becomes more of a burden, then it becomes an experience. It’s great to have these high achieving goals but make sure you’re not using these goals and excuse of not enjoying other experiences with your classmates, your hobbies, your families and friends.



And one of the worst things that can happen is a third or fourth year. If you decide you don’t want to do that specific specialty, or you don’t want that goal anymore, you realize that you kind of wasted your first and second year on casing and being very narrow minded on this one goal and you use it as a crutch. So have high goals, I’m totally about that. But make sure that you’re also enjoying the experience. So the second mistake that most first year med students make is they don’t know how to study and this is because college creates very bad habits. All of you that are watching this video are very smart individuals. If you’re considering going into medicine, you have the grades you have the intellect, but sometimes we lean too much on our intelligence that we rely on cramming and passive methods. And when a new med student first starts to study in medical school, they’re split between active and passive learning is usually anywhere from 60 to 80% to 42 20%.

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So that means that they’re spending a majority of their time reading, watching lectures, rewriting their notes, but these are not really methods



that are going to help them a long term retention. And just because of the mass volume that you have to learn in that school, they’re often not going to do well in their first couple exams, because they’re relying on the same techniques that they use in college, which helped them as an exam the next day when they started studying the night before, it doesn’t work in med school.

So instead, you have to flip that formula, and you have to spend the majority of your time doing active message. So I personally have already created two videos on how to study effectively in that school. The first one goes over a bunch of active techniques that you can use.

The second one is my personal method that I use to study very efficiently would not very many hours and I give you a very step by step method.

I’ll link both of those below in the description if you’re interested. So just remember that when you start setting in medical schools, spend the majority of your time doing active techniques.

So quizzing yourself, taking practice exams, flashcards, whatever that may be for you. That way you can retain as much info you’re focusing on your weak points as much as your strong points. You’re not doing passive technique assessed. It’s not going to work and that’s cool. So Mistake number three, and this is something



That I see my classmates still make today. And it’s a quote that I’ll give to you that I’ve kind of come through creating them the journey which is try to schedule med school into your life and not your life into med school. Unfortunately, the mistake that a lot of new med students make is that they’ll schedule their life into med school. Now, it’s a common notion that med school is kind of like having a full time job. It’s like an eight to five job. Unfortunately, a lot of new med students will try to work overtime. And so they’ll add additional hours to the end of the day, add additional hours to the beginning of their day. And eventually the whole life becomes just being a med student.

But then they have no time for their hobbies and times for their friends and families. And they really did lose a part of themselves. So something that I really recommend to do to avoid burnout to enjoy your for your experience and still progress and become a great med student is make sure that medicine is only a part of your life. So one thing that I plead people to do is making sure that their priorities before med school are still a big priority while they are meant to do



And a great way that I like to do this is that actually like to schedule my fun first. Now that’s usually opposite of what most med students will think they want to schedule their study time first, then find time for leisure. But if I can schedule a workout in and I can schedule and my TV shows, my video games, my lunch or dinner with families and friends, if I already know when I’m going to enjoy myself, then whatever time I’m not scheduled to do, those are times for me to study and study effectively.

So just make sure that just because you’re a med student, that you don’t lose that old part of your life that made you you afford the mistake that new MIT students make is they listen way too much to their classmates. Now, I love my classmates. But when it comes time for an exam or an important deadline, they’re often the last people I want to be around and I’m probably the last person they want to be around as well because we just stress each other out med students just feed off of each other stress and not in a good way.

So make sure that you take everything your classmates say with a grain of salt. Use your classmates as motivation they’re going to be the smart



Individuals that you’ll probably meet in your life thus far, they’re going to inspire you. They’re going to motivate you to work harder. But once they start shifting to their stress mode, you want to kind of step away and avoid contact at all costs. So for example, if you have your anatomy final coming up, your classmates really stressed and is this talking over and over about how stressed and behind they are on studying for that exam. You know, obviously, listen to them, give them support, but don’t let that stress freak you out.

So just make sure you take your classmates with a grain of salt, especially around stressful events, stressful deadlines. Now, the fifth mistake that new med students make is kind of similar to the last tip, but they were their stress on their sleeves.

So just the same way that we don’t want to be around stressful classmates all the time. Our classmates don’t want to be around a stressful version of us.

So also be very vigilant and be very cognizant of how we come across. It’s fine to use our friends and our classmates to cope with the stresses of med school because



A lot of people on the outside world you could say don’t really understand what the stresses of med school or like. So yes, you can use your classmates as a way to vent and cope. But don’t overdo it. You may think that first year is going to be the hardest thing you ever have to do in your life. But then you’re going to reach the second year med school and you’re going to reach the third year in the fourth year, and it’s going to continually get harder and more challenging. So use your classmates as your support but for their sake, and for your own health. Try not to wear your stress on your sleeve. And the last tip and mistake that new med students make and honestly even old veteran med students like myself make is that you talk about med school and medicine all the time. Going back to the third tip. Don’t forget your old life. So for med school,



you didn’t talk about med school with all your peers and your friends and your family hopefully did it so that same way you’re going to be around your classmates and your colleagues all the time. That’s gonna be very easy for med school to be the topic 99% of time, but when you can avoid it, try your best because then it makes it much easier to picture your life.



Being more than just being a med student, and if you can do that you can meet the challenges of med school head on. But as soon as your test your studying is over, you can go and enjoy the other aspects of your life. But if medicine is a part of your whole day, all of your conversations it can be very easy to reach burnout when you find a series of days and weeks that are much more stressful than the rest so try to have a good balance on your conversations people you hang out with and they’ll help you immensely and having a very stress minimal I’m not going to say stress free first year med school so those are my top tips for new med students on what things to avoid but if you have any questions at all about med school on how to study manager time stress a particular class just let me know comment below. You can also email me at the MD journey. com at gmail. com. I’ll also put that link in the description new videos coming out on a weekly basis. So go ahead and give this video like first and then

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Major Mistakes Students Making During Graduation

About a week ago, I came across a video on my friend Kevin’s channel med school insiders called seven regrets of my 20s and watching his video got me thinking about some of my own regrets and mistakes specifically from my college career. Because by no means that I have a perfect college career. By and large, I’m happy with how things turned out. And I didn’t make any huge mistakes.t

there are definitely some things that I would have done differently if I were magically time. warped back to my freshman year. Now all that is unlikely to happen as I haven’t angered any wizards. lately. I still think that detailing these mistakes and going through what I would have done differently will be useful for other people who might be finding themselves in a similar situation in the near future including possibly you that’s because one of my most important beliefs is that you can learn just as much from the failures of others as you can from your own as long as you can call that little voice in your head that says yeah but that won’t happen to me right then you can start to use the experiences of others to prepare yourself potential situations in your own life so today I’m gonna be sharing eight stupid mistakes that I made in college and the lessons that each one of them taught me

first of my list with mistake I made in both my freshman and my sophomore year, which was starting out the semester way too gung ho, thinking I could do a literally every single reading assignment, every single piece of homework everything and then fizzling out after just a few weeks, I’m not gonna lie, I came into college as a very ambitious student, as is befitting somebody who would make an entire website on academic success. And I wanted to do really well in my classes. I wanted to ace every single test and do all the reading.

So when I started my semesters, I told myself, I’m going to read every single reading assignment and I’m going to take notes on every single thing that I read. But as you can probably guess, that didn’t last for very long and there’s a big difference between say, my first week Mrs. Class Notes, which I’ll show right here, and, well, the market lack of any notes beyond that. Now, I have to say that I did get lucky because a lot of the classes that I went to had a lot of overlap between what was presented in class and when



was in the actual reading assignments and homework. But if I had been in classes where a lot of crucial information was locked the textbook, then that burnout that experienced a few weeks into the semester could have really hurt me.



Mistake number two, which is a bubbly, fizzy and caffeinated mistake all throughout college. until probably my senior year. I was absolutely addicted to energy drinks. And I’d like to tell myself that this wasn’t because of the caffeine content. It probably was. Caffeine is a surprisingly addictive substance.

But I was also addicted to energy drinks because they provided what the author Taylor cork calls and his book Starbucks beverage entertainment, they were something that made a study session just a little bit less boring because I knew I got that colorful, can have fizzy, sugary liquid next to me while I went through my math assignments. The lesson here for those of you who haven’t already gotten addicted to energy drinks is don’t let it happen because it can very well happen both for those beverage entertainment reasons and for the caffeine reasons you don’t need nearly as



much caffeine as you think you might as long as you’re maintaining a good sleep schedule. And if you do want to use caffeine or you enjoy drinks that have it, maybe stick to coffee or tea instead, and they’re a lot healthier. And if you aren’t going to Starbucks and buying $4 lattes, they are a lot cheaper as well.



So the next mistake on my list here is jumping the gun when it came to selecting an internship. So this goes back to my sophomore year of college. I spent the summer before that year and the very beginning of that year going as hard as I could to try to get an internship. I went to every single networking session that I could learn about.

I went to all the career fair. So I went to all the pre career fairs and the pre pre career fair breakfasts, I met recruiters from dozens of different companies. I handed out tons of different resumes and all of this work definitely paid off after the career fair season after all that kind of died down. I was presented with no less than seven interview offers at several different companies. And I was pretty stoked about these but I didn’t end up going to any of them because



Before even my first interview was scheduled, I got a call from one company that said, Hey Thomas, we really liked your resume really liked talking with you at the career fair. We think that we don’t even need to interview we would like to offer you an internship sight unseen because we think you’re a great candidate and I was ecstatic when I got this call. And because I was ecstatic and because I was so stoked that they had offered me an internship. I never been offered an internship before I took it right away. No, I don’t want to say that this decision led me down the wrong path, because I’m very grateful for the experiences I got at that internship.

But as a result of taking it right away, I cancelled all seven of those other interview requests. I didn’t even give them the chance to see if they were going to be a better opportunity than that first one. And I remember later during that summer, talking with other people who are my classmates and friends and asking them what their internship experiences were like, and some of them actually ended up getting internships that paid a lot more than mine did. So I think the lesson here is don’t jump the gun. If you get a job offer. You’re going to think that this is the only one that’s going to come to you, you’re going to say



That if you let this opportunity slip through your fingers, you’re making a horrible decision. But it is totally okay to say thank you so much for the opportunity. Can I take a few days to think about it from there, you start to analyze your options. And since I did this internship, and then I went and started my own business and haven’t worked a full time job since then, I don’t have the personal experience to tell you about how to do this correctly.

But I did come across an excellent answer on Reddit about this exact same question. So I’m going to link to that in description down below. And I highly recommend you give it a read in case you find yourself in this situation in the future.



All right. Mistake number four on my list is dropping my very first programming class. So this goes back to my very first semester of college my freshman year, I ended up taking the engineering level Java programming class. And this was because even though I was a business student, weirdly, the business Java programming class, even though it was easier than the engineering level one had a prerequisite that I wasn’t going to be able to take until my second semester Whereas that engineering one had no prerequisites. And I was like, I want to start learning Java, I want to start programming.

This is what I came to college for. So I started that class. And immediately I found it really, really difficult. The labs are difficult.

The homework was difficult. And I even found it difficult to follow the lecture material while I was sitting in class. So, and it pains me to admit this. After about a couple of weeks, I actually dropped that class and just resigned myself to taking the business level Java class instead. And this mistake is really an echo of a mistake I made back in high school where I didn’t get a very good grade in my calculus class because I shied away from the tough problems. The moment a problem presented itself to me, and I thought, I can’t do that.

I don’t even know where to begin, I would disengage I would basically give up and as I learned the intervening years, this is not how you become a better problem solver.

You can’t just disengage the moment a problem seems like it’s too tough to solve. If you focus on it, you’re eventually going to find the answer. And if you can’t do it on your own, you can ask for help. I didn’t do this, which meant that I wasted a bunch of time during my freshman year because I dropped that class and wasted all the hours



I put into it prior to the day I dropped it. But it also meant that I ended up going into a Java class. That was, frankly, too easy for me. I could have done the engineering level Java class if I had really buckled down and focus on the problems, but I didn’t. So if you find yourself in a class that you feel is just too hard, make sure that you’re actually working to solve those problems. Ask yourself, have I really put in the time? Have I really focused or that I just disengage and tell myself that’s too hard?

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All right. Failure number five here, kind of related to number four, I failed to take advantage of Professor office hours for a lot of my college career.

When I got into my junior and senior year I started to get smart and I started to use them a lot more often. But freshman and sophomore year, I hardly ever went to Professor office hours and what’s worse, I remember professors actually offering completely free review sessions you know, after class when people could just come and ask whatever questions they wanted in review for tests and I skipped these two these are



gold mines. I remember going to a couple of these during my again junior and senior year and using them to get really good grades on tests because teachers would essentially answer questions straight from the study guides.

I skipped these in my first couple of years of college and I skipped Professor office hours, which meant that again, when I got stuck on tough problems, I wasn’t utilizing the resources that I had available to me I was just disengaging and telling myself I can’t do that. So if you’re in college, or even if you’re in high school, use the help you have available to you. Professors are there to help you not just by lecturing to you at the front of the classroom, but by working one on one with you as well.



Alright, steak number six. And this is I think, the most emotional one on the list here. I titled it in my list seeking companionship in the wrong places. So to put a long story very short the February of my junior year I ended up breaking up with the girl I was dating at the time and for a while I was totally fine being single but as many people end up finding the start to get lonely after a while and



Remember that my senior year fall started. And I found myself in what I would say is the closest to a depression that I have ever been in. I don’t think that it was a it was a true depression. And I haven’t really experienced what other people have experienced in that realm of things. But it was a very sad and kind of down period of my life. And what I tried to do to fix that.

I thought that I needed to go out and find someone else to date. But I went about it in the wrong way. I started going to bars like almost every single night, and I’m not a huge drinker.

But I would go out there because the only solution to finding someone to date in my mind was that I had to go out to bars, like where else do you meet people who actually want to get in a relationship, right? And this was the complete wrong approach because I would go number one, put myself in an environment where I was very unlikely to find people who had similar interests and passions and values to what I had, but also I psyched myself out every single time I went into a bar nightclub because I went there with the express purpose of finding somebody.



That meant I put a ton of pressure and anxiety on myself. And this went on for a few months. Until one night on a whim, I decided to go to the anime club party at my school because my roommate was the president at the time. So this was just a completely fun thing to do. I had absolutely no expectations from it. And once you know it, that’s where I met Anna, my girlfriend who have been with for six years and I met her there because I put new expectations on myself. I didn’t have any anxiety which allowed me to be myself and that’s why she was attracted to me.

So if there is a lesson here at all, I would say don’t put so much pressure on yourself to find a companion go out, do things with the intention of finding friends and having fun and while you’re doing those things in the process, you’re likely to meet people who again share passion so you might be attracted to and they might be attracted to you and you’re not putting pressure on yourself. So you’re going to be yourself in those situations.



Alright, steak number seven is not doing my due diligence when it came to the costs of college and this is



Typically is referring to the cost of living on campus. But when I was researching what it would take to live on campus because I wanted to live in the dorm, so I can meet as many people as possible and be as close to the opportunities as possible. The first bit of information I found on my colleges website is that I had to pay for the dorm up front for an entire semester, which I believe was about 30, $500



each and every semester. And I didn’t look past that. I said, Okay, I don’t have 30, $500. So I went out and took out student loans to pay for it. Only later in my college career. When I started to really get to know the college’s website for a part time job that I had been hired for did I learned that there was actually a month to month payment option for that dorm.

So to give you some context, my original plan going into college was to get an apartment off campus so I could pay for it month a month with my part time job earnings. I didn’t have parents that could pay for my college. So I knew I would have to basically cover everything myself and I wanted to minimize debt, but eventually decided against the apartment idea because again, I wanted to be in the thick of things I wanted to be on campus and meet me.



Many people as possible, all that good stuff, but I didn’t do my due diligence. I didn’t learn about this month, the month option. And had I done that I probably could have paid for my dorm month a month with my part time job earnings, or at least taken out far fewer dollars in student loans. So the lesson here is, do your due diligence. Don’t take the first bit of information you have at face value, especially if it’s going to involve you taking out a large student loan, dig in, ask questions, challenge your base assumptions, and you might find something that could save you a lot of money.



And that brings us to our final mistake on my list, which was failing to take advantage of what I call the fun opportunities and I call them the fun opportunities because I have to separate them from the professional opportunities in college. I really did take advantage of professional opportunities.

I was in Business Council I started a blog I was in all these like academic standards committees and computer advisory committees, all these things that I had done just basically a boost my resume and that may actually be another mistake that I think about when writing this list.



But when I put off all the things that seemed really fun. So to give you some context here, my college has over 800 student organizations and clubs, including things like downhill, dirt boarding club, skydiving club, all these outdoor adventure clubs. And when I was a freshman, I went to this thing called club best where everyone except these booths, and it was basically this entire event designed to show the freshman just what was available and what they could join.

And I remember seeing all these clubs and thinking these seem awesome. I want to do all of these. But I’m here for four years. I can do them whenever I want. I have all the time in the world.

So of course, I let other things get in the way. Let homework get in the way I let video games with friends get in the way that all these events that I thought would build my professional presence on my resume, get in the way and four years went by without me ever doing any of those things. I never did the skydiving club. I never did the downhill dirt boarding club. I didn’t none of it.

So if you find yourself in a similar situation where there’s something you want to do you feel like you’re all the time in the world to do it. You have to commit to it, find a way to set a date or commit to it with a friend. So it’s actually going to happen. Even if something seems really fun.

If there’s a little bit of friction required to get into it, or if it’s going to take some time, you’re always going to find something that quote unquote, comes up and makes you put it off a week, and then another week, and then another week until one day, you find yourself on your deathbed and you really regret never going downhill dirt boarding.

Now one potential regret that I think we didn’t have to put on this list was failing to use my free time to work on independent learning projects, because this was definitely something that I did in college. While a lot of the guys in my dorm use most of free time to play video games.

I use the vast majority of my free time that wasn’t taken up by classes or projects or part time jobs to work on independent learning projects that really interested me and that really paid off in fact, all the hours that I spent my dorm learning PHP and Photoshop video editing gave me the skills that I needed to build and refine college info geek which eventually turned into a full time business for me so well, I’m not suggesting that you never hang up



Friends are never played video games because I definitely think you should do these things. I do want to leave you with one parting thought. Whether you’re in college or high school, or even in the professional world, make sure that you’re using at least some of your free time to pursue independent learning projects that interest you don’t just come home and spend all your free time on Netflix or video games or hobbies that only result in consumption, learn something, build something. And remember that since you get to pick the project, your higher level of interest in it almost always lead to faster learning and you never know how it’s going to pay off in the future. Now, if you want to accelerate your learning in that project even further, you should also check out skill skill Sure, has library of over 20,000 courses taught by expert teachers and practitioners in a ton of different areas including graphic design, web development, story, crafting, and even marketing. All their classes are hands on with projects that you can immediately sink your teeth into. So you’re learning actively right away. And there’s also a chat area where you can ask questions and get feedback not one class that I want to highlight for you this week is Thomas low risk class. I’m creating a UX design portfolio. And this is partly because creating a portfolio is an essential skill for anyone doing creative work.



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