I am a bad student
Feb. 23rd, 2010 12:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trinityvixenI have many bad-student issues. I'm a procrastinator. I never learned to skim textbooks, I always have to plod through them, reading everything start-to-finish. I make lousy review notes. I never really cottoned on to writing papers with an outline; except for the odd research paper, everything was sort of free form following from a thesis. I always have to work/study/do homework to music or I start to freak myself out with quiet. (I barely went to libraries in college, and never without music when I did.) I usually do all my work on my bed, which leads me to fall asleep more often than not.
Today's bad-student issue is the inability to study on the day I have a test. Review, maybe. Look over problems, sure. But not with half-so-much attention as I had last night when I did TONS of review problems, or Sunday/Saturday when I did just about every odd-numbered problem in the textbook. Now that it's actually game day, I find myself barely able to LOOK at the textbook, much less prep. I barely remembered to make up my equations cheat-sheet that I'm allowed to bring to the test.
I'm really bad on test days. I would take every test first thing in the day, given the option, because having the day available to study does me no good and only makes me nervous--mostly about how much extra study time I'm not using...
Aiyah. Is it 6 yet?
Today's bad-student issue is the inability to study on the day I have a test. Review, maybe. Look over problems, sure. But not with half-so-much attention as I had last night when I did TONS of review problems, or Sunday/Saturday when I did just about every odd-numbered problem in the textbook. Now that it's actually game day, I find myself barely able to LOOK at the textbook, much less prep. I barely remembered to make up my equations cheat-sheet that I'm allowed to bring to the test.
I'm really bad on test days. I would take every test first thing in the day, given the option, because having the day available to study does me no good and only makes me nervous--mostly about how much extra study time I'm not using...
Aiyah. Is it 6 yet?
