kikistudiesthings:

I recently read How to Win at College by Cal Newport, and it has super helpful tips for college, so I thought I would share the complete list of chapters/tips.  I recommend this for anyone in college or going to college!  I will bold my favorites :)

1. Don’t do all your reading
   
2. Create a Sunday ritual
   
3. Drop classes every semester
   
4. Start long-term projects the day they are assigned
   
5. Make your bed
   
6. Apply to ten scholarships a year
   
7. Build study systems
   
8. Befriend a professor
   
9. Become a club president
   
10. Read a newspaper every day
    
11. Do one thing better than anyone else you know
    
12. Avoid daily to-do lists
    
13. Learn to give up
    
14. Never nap
    
15. Sign up for something your first week
    
16. Always be working on a “Grand Project”
    
17. Take art history and astronomy
    
18. Blow the curve once a term
    
19. Ask one question at every lecture
    
20. Jump into research as soon as possible
    
21. Pay your dues
    
22. Study in fifty-minute chunks
    
23. Schedule your free time
24. Dress nicely for class
25. Decorate your room
    
26. Start studying two weeks in advance
    
27. Write outside of class
    
28. Eat alone twice a day
    
29. Find an escape
    
30. Take hard courses early on
    
31. Don’t study in your room
    
32. Don’t study in groups
    
33. Join an honors program
    
34. Do schoolwork every day
    
35. Attend guest lectures
    
36. Exercise five days a week
    
37. Stay in touch
    
38. Tack on an extra major or minor
    
39. Meet often with your advisor
    
40. Don’t get a normal job
    
41. Use three days to write a paper
    
42. Don’t undersleep, don’t oversleep
    
43. Relax before exams
    
44. Make friends your #1 priority
    
45. Don’t binge drink
    
46. Ignore your classmates’ grades
    
47. Seek out phenomenal achievers
    
48. Learn to listen
    
49. Never pull an all-nighter
    
50. Laugh every day
    
51. Use high-quality notebooks
    
52. Keep a work-progress journal
    
53. Seek out fun
    
54. Inflate your ambition
    
55. Get involved in your major department
    
56. Care about your grades, ignore your GPA
    
57. Always go to class
    
58. Set arbitrary deadlines
    
59. Eat healthy
    
60. Volunteer quietly
    
61. Write as if going for a Pulitzer
    
62. Attend political rallies
    
63. Maximize your summers
    
64. Choose goals, explore routes
    
65. Don’t take breaks between classes
    
66. Don’t network
    
67. Publish Op-Eds
    
68. Use a filing cabinet
    
69. Find a secret study space
    
70. Study with the Quiz-and-Recall Method
    
71. Empty your in-box
    
72. Relax before sleep
    
73. Start fast, end slow
    
74. Spend a semester studying abroad
    
75. “Don’t have no regrets”
    

I hope you find some of these helpful!! I might make this a series and elaborate on each tip from the book while adding my own perspective.  Good luck everyone, you’ve got this!

(via ploverstudies)