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Overcoming Procrastination
Many of us can relate to the person in this photo… a textbook does make a good sleep mask after all! There are many reasons why we procrastinate, with not all of them being negative. In fact, procrastination can actually be good for you, or at least a useful signal…
Creating the perfect study environment
The environment in which you study is important, but often neglected when devising a revision plan. It’s common sense that revising in a quiet library will be more conducive to learning than stacking textbooks on your knees whilst on the bus, the baby behind you interrupting your train of thought with a scream, and the potholes making your pages flop back and forth.
How to overcome Zoom Fatigue
The answer to this is not coffee, despite how good the coffee in the photo above looks. Caffeine is often people’s (me included) go-to-thing when trying to focus and get in the zone to work, but chemical stimulation is not a sustainable way of overcoming the dreaded ‘Zoom fatigue’, a phrase which drains me of energy just by uttering it…
Exercise your body to exercise your mind
We all know that exercise is good for us, both for our mental and physical health, but exercising regularly isn’t something that’s in everyone’s weekly routine. It often gets assigned a low tier of importance when prioritising a busy week, with people…
The Art of Revision
You’d think that after seven years of exam seasons, multiple assignments, and two degrees that I would have revision down to a T. However, every time I need to revise something, whether that be for an exam or presentation, I try to use new ways of absorbing and retaining information to keep myself interested…