Study may sometimes try to get you down and leave no time for anything else! so what should you do? here are some tips to hack your college life and enjoy it to the max. Get stuff done! you know the drill – you sit down to seriously work – for real this time! – on that paper thats due on tuesday. Three hours later youve gone through another four levels on a facebook game, commented on a status update from your ex, watched a video of a pug jumping up a set of stairs and gotten into a bit of a flame war with someone on a message board. These web based programs let you enter a list of websites or programs that are off limits for a certain amount of time. Just load in the website addresses and program names, set the timer and bingo! you wont be able to access any of them – or turn off the blacklist – until the timer is up. Lending out a book, lecture notes, mp3 player or anything else you actually want to get back one day? snap a picture of your friend with the item about to be borrowed.

Are the charging wires for you mp3 player, phone, tablet, e reader and laptop turning your desk into the land of spaghetti? grab a box of medium or large binder clips, attach them to the edge of a shared table or desk and thread each charger end through the wire handle. Theyll keep the ends sticking up and ready to use and keep them from slipping back into the tangle of cords. Setting your alarm for an especially early class? change the alarm to a song you cant stand, set the volume to max and then toss it across the room before you go to sleep. Need a cold beer or soda, like, now? make the most of your study break with a cold drink. Wrap a wet paper towel around your drink can or bottle and pop it into the freezer for 15 minutes. Your parents just told you theyre coming over and the whole place smells like dirty feet? tape a few dryer sheets over your air conditioner or air vents and turn them on.

Dont throw out that post it note quite yet! pop motivational or flash card post its all over. Once the test has passed, run the sticky side between the rows of keys on your keyboard to get out dist fluff and whatever else gets stuck in there. Youll have used them to help prepare for your exams and you get a clean keyboard too! 8. Tired of marketing emails clogging up your inbox? filter by the word unsubscribe and youll catch them all. Getting ready to haul your textbooks, dvds, games or other books down to sell them to a student or secondhand store? use a rolling suitcase instead of cumbersome boxes.

Theyll be easier to transport and you wont have to worry about the box falling apart. When you need to copy a direct quote from the internet into your paper, use ctrl+shift+v to paste it into your document. Get some quick sources for your paper by grabbing a definitive book on the subject. Make the most of office hours. hitting up professors during office hours can help you get a better understanding of the material and it also makes you more memorable to the instructor. Youll stop being thought of as a student number and start being remembered as that clever kid with all the questions. Check with former students or email the professor directly before the class is set to begin and ask if the textbook is mandatory.

Check out international versions for textbooks. often, textbooks printed as international versions have the same content, just on lower quality paper. The price is typically less than half of what youll pay at the student store but you will have to order them online and allow a longer delivery time. Grab your gum. chewing gum – particularly minty gum – has been shown to boost focus and concentration.

Go old school when it comes to notes. writing notes and brainstorming by hand helps you to retain information better than typing on a computer. Go back to pen and paper to outline a paper, make notes about a chapter or brainstorm for thesis ideas. While youre at it, take notes for someone else. taking notes that someone else will need to understand will force you to take better notes in general. Being able to explain a concept to someone else will force your brain to process the information more thoroughly. Need to get practice exams for a class? enter site:edu subject exam into a search engine to get old exams to practice on for classes you find especially difficult. Underpromise and overdeliver. when youre planning out how to tackle studying, get your part of a group project done or finish a paper, give yourself plenty of time and set small, realistic goals.

Get rid of your phone! when its time to buckle down and study out your phone on silent and leave it in another room. Text messages, phone calls, status alerts and breaking news can all wait for an hour. So, have you been recently assigned a research project? or, even worse, is it already due soon? the following 10 life hacks will help you do it in record time. Here are 10 amazing things, which will help you write a research paper like a pro. better choice: is there a statistically significant relationship between students’ climate change awareness and their personal paper recycling choices? no time to read all the sources you find.

Feel free to use some of their sources for your paper surely, after finding them in full. To write a research paper right, you should start making notes as soon as you choose your topic. Whenever you find an interesting quote or some brilliant idea crosses your mind, put them down. Follow the standard structure to save your time and creative energy for other aspects of writing a research paper.

abstract introduction literature review methodology findings discussion limitations conclusion and recommendations. the three most important components to be included into the introduction part are a research question, a hypothesis and a strong thesis statement.

If you find the contradicting views, dont hesitate to include them all into the literature review. What about sharing your personal secrets on how to write a research paper with the public? we hope to see your comments below. This means when people can’t start they’re imagining the precision of the end, all polished and brilliant. That vision makes the clumsy junkyard that all beginnings are impossible to accept. Good voice, tone, rhythm, ideas and grammar are essential to good writing, but they’re never introduced all at once. I promise you, the first draft of strunk and white didn’t follow strunk and white.

Anyone who wrote yesterday can write today, it’s just a question of if they can do it to their own satisfaction. Its not the fear of writing that blocks people, its fear of not writing well something quite different. Certainly every writer has moments of paralysis, but the way out is to properly frame what’s going on, and writer’s block, as commonly misunderstood, is a red herring. Consider this: have you ever been blocked while playing frisbee? eating doughnuts? dancing naked in your living room? those are joyful things and theres nothing at stake: if you fail, who cares? nobody.

And remember writers like making names and overthinking things: there is no term for architect block, painter block, juggler block or composer block. Every creative pursuit faces similar pressures, but they don’t obsess about it the way writers seem to do. If you can’t get started, your psychology is making the challenge bigger than you can handle. Thinking of the book, the chapter, the page, the paragraph, is all too big if while you’re thinking, the page remains blank. Like a weightlifter out of his class, a writer with a blank page needs to lighten the load. In the grand tradition of lists and books of hacks, writing hacks are clever little actions that give you leverage and put the dynamics in your favor. I’m partial to the ridiculous 1 , so for me it’s often papaya, pomegranate or throat warbler man grove if you’re thinking that’s not a word, go back two paragraphs.

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Write the lyrics to the song on the radio, the names of people you’ve slept with, your favorite dr. Once all the magic muscles in your little fingers get going, you’ll soon find yourself, in between rounds of one fish blue fish, writing some intelligent things. Writer weenies call this free writing, implying something unfortunate about other kinds of writing, but i find it easier to think of as listening. Imagine yourself as a recording device, writing down the radio broadcast of some other person who happens to live in your head. Eventually your mind will hit thoughts on the topic itself and, presto, youre on your way.

I’ve found that if you tell bartenders you’re a writer, after they stop laughing, they’ll happily chat and occasionally give you free drinks. Perhaps i’m insane, but i talk to myself all the time, and sometimes i even like the answers. If you know a writer friend, be writer buddies, available by phone to help each other get started. To get started i’ll read things that i can’t stand, express opinions in violent opposition to mine 2 and, when pressed, are written so poorly my eyes burn straight through the pages. Sometimes its love you need, so go to your masters: emerson, fitzgerald, orwell, king, get your nose into whoever’s writing get you jazzed. Writers often write about writing 3 , a trick few arts can follow so reflective motivation from writers is easy to find.