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How to push through the daily burnout? I'm trying to study efficiently at longer hours but after a point I can't help but start to mind wander.

Take lots of 15 minute breaks during study, and use that time for something you enjoy.

You'll have lower stress and higher memory retention.

Only tryhards actually study for like 10 hours straight.

This.

THIS.

Honestly, if you're studying for hours and hours you are studying the complete wrong way for retention and learning to occur. You should try and read as much background material before classes/lectures so you get a good overall of the subject, take good notes during class then summarise your notes straight away after. I also find talking to classmates or lecturers like I'm dumb and basically rephrasing key points in simple speak helps to gel it all in my head. If you set out maybe an hour or two a day to reread your notes and understand them you'll do fine. Obviously this is all preventative, when I haven't been paying attention and have to cram I just constantly rewrite notes over and over, eventually getting them to a bullet point list with key phrases that act as prompts. Some people learn better by talking or listening to things, though.

Only reason I am (trying to, don't succeed most days) to study 10-12 hours per day is because I have entrance exams in one month, getting a full ride out of this shithole filthy fucking country
By the way, any advice to stay alive for one more month and study better?

Grab a friend / pretend you're having a conversation with someone and talk like you are teaching them the material. Never fails to help me remember more efficiently

I don't get people who read notes. I just do problems until I'm good at them.

A lot of good, whole food, time outside, study breaks and sleep. Without being fully rested you won't learn. I know it sounds childish but I also like scheduling my study time - specifically setting out an hour just for questions on one area, an hour general reading/note taking etc. Good luck user, I'm sure it will all pay off!

Instead of hourly breaks I just set goals, i.e. do half a paper, 15 minutes of shitposting, finish the paper, 20 minutes of shitposting, half of another paper etc

Paper lol

What? I mean a past exam paper

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I like this.
Thanks user, I just have to push for one more month. (fucks sake chemistry is so annoying)

How am I supposed to block out the noise then

idk, if you have a noisy area like traffic and people outside regularly talking

and you contrast it to repetitive or calm music without a lot of variation (and no vocals)

then the music could block out the irregular outside sounds and keep you in a more regular environment that does not break your concentration.

Ive found that vaporwave (no joke), especially ambient hypnagonic like Eco Virtual or SURFING, work best for studying.

Ask a guy who self-taught himself linear algebra from scratch in 2 days and got a 98/100 on the exam anything

are you smarter than Albert Einstein?
do you have higher IQ than Albert Einstein?

> Good night sleep
> Wake up early
> A coffee in the morning, food at 12 and if tired another one in the afternoon
> Jazz music, or music in another language than the one I'm studying, no music I don't know about or I'll get curious about and focus on it. I just use some of my favorite funk album sometimes.
> Focused on work, cut internet while working on computer, download every pdf and all before so I'm not going to stop everytime to get the next document.

If I'm too nervous about the exam and/or I don't know much :
> Sleep in the afternoon, 4-5 hours
> Wake up, whole night of studying
> 4-6am to 9-10 get some sleep
> Go back studying
> Pass the exam
> ???

Note that I've taken a lot of time to learn to memorize efficiently, since I'm a lazy fat-ass, I need to study faster and better than others.
Note (x2) that this only works for knowledge-based lessons (I study human science so works for me), not practice, you can go faster than your own brain when understand something like physics or math.

No I don't think so (not sure what his IQ was but I'm confident it was higher than mine)

I've gotten professionally tested twice; once when I was 11 and once when I was 18. I scored 125 and 143 respectively.

what topics in linear algebra have you learned?

>> jazz music

Hold on, he's forgotten every bit of it and has to go check.

You got it, mah boi, Jazz is the real deal. Any rec ? I love Bill Evans, Chet Baker, John Coltrane and Mingus.

But I tend to begin my day with some funky stuff, it makes me motivated while happy, then I use the burst of energy with jazz, the whole day. I could do from 8am to 10pm with 15min breaks.

example of funky stuff I listen to in the morning while in the subway (+/- 40 min for an album)
youtube.com/watch?v=Qv05lkjTm78

All that makes studying an habit, something to enjoy rather than work.

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easy stuff mate, now go learn whole calculus in 2 days - including fourier series, triple integrals, field theory and etc

Not the dude, but I'm curious about everything so.. what would I need to read if I wanted to study all of this ?

take a math course at MIT courseware and solve tons of problems. also, there are decent math textbooxs at project gutenberg page (mathemathics bookshelf)

>Don't use loads of caffeine, just green tea, 3 cups a day maximum

I'm new to tea, I've tried green and peppermint tea and I quite like them - they're nice to perk you up.
Does anyone recommend anything?

yerba mate

go to the library
with your notebook, books, penciles, papers a bottle of water
have the ebooks on your hard drive you will need
turn off the internet (deinstall w-lan)
stay there until the sun goes down

>actually uninstalling something just to turn your internet off

Hahaha just turn off the adapter. Stop fucking up your drivers.

Argie fag?

How about just white noise?

>you can go faster than your own brain when understand something like physics or math

Any music recommendations?
>Tycho
>Fat Jon and Nujabes (only the instrumental tracks)
>Classical music

I don't get how it seems people spend all this time studying and doing homework.

When do you have time to do something you want to do?

Like
>homework
>studying
>job
>gym

do you never have time for videogames or anime or whatever ?

BRETHREN. I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE

>undergrad physics junior year
>midst of finals week, sleep deprived and riddled with drugs
>trying to take nap, begin to drift off
>wonder about future employment
>kinda wish universal basic income would be here already so i wouldn't hafta worry
>cuz automation is replacing everything
>neet lifestyle spreads
>less people needing to go outside, everyone staying indoors on their VR headsets and teledildonics
>singularity hits and ai companionship robots will be the bulk of our friends because they're not douches like real people are
>they cater to our needs
>eventually they gather enough user data to psychoanlyze us and realize that humans are deep down all cucks who want to be dominated and coddled by their mothers
>makes sense, no one wants to be alive, life peaked in the womb and it has been downhill since
>robots enslave us through pleasure in all aspects, fulfilling our every fantasy the moment we fantasize about them
>they even instantly manufacture drugs custom fitted to our brain chemistry and medicate us rectally
>aliens finally drop by and immediately leave in disgust
>just kidding, no civilization ever reaches interstellar travel because they always reach the singularity and get cucked by their own technology before that.

THIS IS THE GREAT FILTER THAT THE WISE ONE NAMED WIKIPEDIA SPEAKS OF

How do I learn to retain information. Not even strictly in an education setting; I have trouble recalling even simple things from stuff like books I've read to the point where I may as well read them again.

Ive been getting through uni (senior next semester) with B's and C's without studying or stressing at all.

Just be like me. Don't worry about your grades.

>inb4 acting unaffected
>inb4 goodluck with job
>inb4 youre whats wrong with uni
>inb4 ignorant comments

you are completely average. you are the bulk of society. another unit of general populace. you are nobody. you're can't possibly be what's wrong with the world when most of the world is you. we can both blink out of existence right now, and no one will notice either of our pathetic lives disappearing, but for now at least my classes grade distributions will go down.

this

Nietzsche would be disgusted with your attitude.

>Finally, just do it
This. This is the only way to study. You can use all the fancy techniques, eat all the saturated fat, take breaks etc - in the end you just have to get your head down and work. If you can't get motivated you have to be disciplined instead

>he doesn't know that feel when you work your ass off and ace your exams
It's worth it to an autist like me

Ear plugs you sub 100 brainlet

This is the only thing that works for me desu. In the library I can't browse the weird shit I'm used to, so I'm forced to study.

No clue why you need so much time if you do all of that bullshit instead of studying...

Tips fedora

repetitive music will be ignored by your brain but also block noise from other external source. so? profit.

Just don't watch anime for 5 hours and spend more 5 on Veeky Forums shitposting, everyday.

vaporwave

> he doesn't "get" that there are people who study subjects that don't have tonnes of problems easily available to work through

Like philosophy and gender studies? Lmoa

Because anime is bullshit for weeaboos.
This.

For me personally, music just distracts me and makes me want to look up more music

This is how to turn yourself into a stressed out insomniac.

>he thinks learning how to row-reduce matrices in two days is impressive

yeah yeah I know you guys are so smart you did this in 30 minutes when you were 5 and it's the easiest thing ever etc I don't question your superior intelligence and basically you're both way above anyone else's accomplishments and all that, but considering the fact that this was a full semester course and I went into it only knowing calc 1 I thought my feat was at least respectable enough to grant me the privilege of perhaps sharing some study tips with people in this thread but I guess I was wrong because you're right thank you both for reminding me that no matter how good anyone else is it's nothing compared to you guys

Top tip: by an e-reader and torrent your books
Buy some earplugs
Turn off phone and computer
Download anki

i sometimes unironically listen to mariachi bands

enjoy highschool

Don't let school cuck you to the point where you're studying and stressing all the time. Have other hobbies like working out and balance them with studying. Study a few hours a day then stop. The only time you will have to study a shitload of hours straight is if you let everything for last minute.

My classmates always take school super seriously and stress about a 4.0 all the time, they study for hours and hours weeks before exams. I'll never understand that mentality. I guess I'm fortunate that I have to study less than them.

>3 exams until degree
>Hate one, love one, the other is a crappy optional
>Fail a session
>Feel like shit, stop studying, play LoL and Hearthstone all day, actually go out and socialize, smoke weed and hash everyday - PROCRASTINATION -
>3 weeks before that week I'll have to pass all the 3 exams
>Frantically try to learn something
>Literally develop some sort of mild ADD and my focus is ALL gone

I need some sort of super-egoish bash to get back on rails so give me your fucking best
I WANT OUT OF THIS RIDE

pls help

Just fucking do it. It doesn't matter if you "don't feel like it". Do it anyways.

Motivation is for the weak, discipline is for the strong.

Like Biology or Chemistry?

This

What are some of the "must-do" things I should do one day before an exam?

sleep

Masturbation
Yes/No

I read somewhere that it can help you sleep because your body naturally relaxes after an orgasm. Tried it once; couldn't sleep for an hour.

>tried masturbating once; couldn't sleep for an hour

Definitely to sleep.

Good nutrition, study, sleep, relaxing

It helps me to focus better, otherwise I just think about porn all the time...

What did the test cover, and how did you do it?

Just look up "adult swim bumps" on youtube and there's like a playlist of 200 chill-as-fuck songs that make good background music

do some light studying

watch some movies, do w/e you like to do

lightly review some final things before bed (things that need to be memorized only)

go to bed so you'll get at least 10h sleep

wake up next day 2-3 hours before exam and review only the most important things - if you can recall it confidently without effort it doesnt need to be reviewed

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forgot to say stop all review/study/whatever else around 1h-30min before exam.

dont dont dont try and cram anything right before the exam, whether its trying to read over your notes one last time or whatever

also dont drink coffee or take caffeine before the exam if you normally dont drink coffee (ie no energy drink shit)

Just started using this in the past semester. Noticeable improvement? Yes.

Who else here ANKI?

i read about it once but i didnt like the mentality it promoted

i see it like this:
a) i have a good enough memory already, and its worked for me just fine my whole life, i dont need some animu powerup technique to succeed

b) encouraging rote memorization is a mistake that will only cost me in the long run (like cheating)

c) its better to just learn and understand the material sufficiently enough that i dont need to specifically dedicate time towards retaining it, ie it should come naturally

That said for trash courses where literally all you can do to succeed is memorize everything by rote, sure go for it.

>study medicine in a foreign language I barely speak
>great mechanical memory and connection-making

I usually smoke a shitload and study everything the weekend before the test, it's usually just enough so I pass and that's fine by me since there's no grading before the third year.

From my understanding it's the only way to survive med school with non shit grades, though practically entirety of preclinical years are a waste of time.

Fucking cunt just gave me a B+ for an 89.5 in my physics lab. And an A- for a 92.6 in English.

God damn I am so mad right now.

You need to learn when you're actually burned out and when you're just being a bitch. There is no point studying if you actually cannot do it

>tfw you don't know when you're crossing the line between making useful notes and simply rewriting something and therefore literally wasting time

Find your motivation. I'm amazed techniques for this aren't taught in elementary school somewhere. There will be points in your life when you will need to learn things but your earlier motivations to learn have disappeared. Then you will need to find your own. Oh my god I really sound like an oldfart don't I? I probably should not be on here.

Most of medical school is a waste of time. Even the clinical stuff. Hey buddy it's time to spend 3 months doing a surgical rotation where you literally stand at the foot of a patient bed during surgery for 9 hours a day, learning nothing because you can't even see what's happening! And if you don't appear to enjoy it your grades will take a hit due to lack of "engagement." To say nothing of the fact that you spend most of your time on rotations that don't interest you in the least, learning shit you'll eventually forget. It should be a 2 year thing, but then it'd cost 100,000$ less.

t. pissed off med student

>Find your motivation.

What exactly do you mean by this? I am an extremely unmotivated person, meaning that I never feel like doing anything, but I just force myself to work out, eat healthy and study a lot, and have been doing this for years.

I generally enter the zone after a couple of hours of studying, but not once have I thought "I really want to study now" when I started.

Because of this, I'd like you to elaborate on your statement. Your personal anecdotes are also more than welcome.

White noise or binaural beats are a good option.
Where I study there's always a TV blaring, so I kinda need something to block out the bullshit.

>extremely unmotivated person,
Stop wasting your time and money at university then. Come back when you find a discipline that motivates you.