1. Take personal notes.
2. The superiority of understanding over memorizing.
3. Finishing your assignments early.
4. Love your exams.
5. Manage your time.
6. Keep a Healthy Body
5. Manage your time.
This cannot be overemphasized. Every student who wants to succeed definitely has to manage their time wisely. Nobody will win by playing haphazardly. Time is your best friend, only if you control it. Time will give you a great leverage, only if you master over it. Anyone who does not manage their time will be a slave to it. Unfortunately time is a fierce master, because it knows nothing about ‘slow down’ or ‘wait’.
KEEP A SCHEDULE / TIME TABLE OF WHAT YOU WANT TO DO.
Do this for a yearly and monthly basis. I myself did not see the importance of keeping a schedule until I was in matriculations. Initially I drew a weekly time table during my matriculation for an entirely different reason. I could not wait to go home to my hometown in Sabah! Therefore, by looking at my time table I could tell exactly how long still to go before I could go home. Then, as I was marking the empty column as each week passed, I was starting to note where the major tests were in the calendar. And then for the first time, I could see how long exactly before the exams. My time table started to give me a sense of time.
Then I divided each week-column into seven days, thus making my time table into daily affair. I put this under the transparent plastic covering of my table. At first, my friend sitting next to me frequently referred to my drawing to get his own sense of time. Later on, all my nearby friends started referring to it. By the end of second term almost everybody have their own version of time table.
As I advanced to university life, my schedule become more elaborate with the entire important events (academic and social) marked on it with all set of colours and captions. I don’t keep an organizer; it is difficult for me to see in-between pages. I have big calendar a size of typical manila card covering my wall. I just have to look at it once – and I know where I am in my university time scale.
PLANNING AND NEGOTIATING WITH TIME.
The schedule not only tells me the sense of time, but it also tells me to negotiate with time. I like to use the word ‘negotiate’ as compared to ‘plan’. To me, plan means you put things what you want to do at certain time and avoid putting things at other time. Unfortunately, things do not easily go that way. Sometimes you do not have the complete freedom of putting things in where they are supposed to be.
For example, my test may be at the morning after my friend big birthday party. None of those items could be changed. So instead of crying and making sad excuses for not attending the party, I could negotiate with my time. That is, if I want to attend the party, I have to prepare two nights before and leave the night before the exam free for the party. If the 3 nights preceding the exams are unavailable due to other reason, then I have to prepare even earlier.
While planning is done at the commencement of months or semester, negotiating time can always be done at the relatively late stage.
Planning somehow denotes rigidity and some sense of strictness. Negotiating time, on the other hand offers some flexibility. Still, whether it is planning or negotiating, the key is keep your schedule in one page in an accessible place.
6. Keep a Healthy Body (to be continued ...)
This cannot be overemphasized. Every student who wants to succeed definitely has to manage their time wisely. Nobody will win by playing haphazardly. Time is your best friend, only if you control it. Time will give you a great leverage, only if you master over it. Anyone who does not manage their time will be a slave to it. Unfortunately time is a fierce master, because it knows nothing about ‘slow down’ or ‘wait’.
KEEP A SCHEDULE / TIME TABLE OF WHAT YOU WANT TO DO.
Do this for a yearly and monthly basis. I myself did not see the importance of keeping a schedule until I was in matriculations. Initially I drew a weekly time table during my matriculation for an entirely different reason. I could not wait to go home to my hometown in Sabah! Therefore, by looking at my time table I could tell exactly how long still to go before I could go home. Then, as I was marking the empty column as each week passed, I was starting to note where the major tests were in the calendar. And then for the first time, I could see how long exactly before the exams. My time table started to give me a sense of time.
Then I divided each week-column into seven days, thus making my time table into daily affair. I put this under the transparent plastic covering of my table. At first, my friend sitting next to me frequently referred to my drawing to get his own sense of time. Later on, all my nearby friends started referring to it. By the end of second term almost everybody have their own version of time table.
As I advanced to university life, my schedule become more elaborate with the entire important events (academic and social) marked on it with all set of colours and captions. I don’t keep an organizer; it is difficult for me to see in-between pages. I have big calendar a size of typical manila card covering my wall. I just have to look at it once – and I know where I am in my university time scale.
PLANNING AND NEGOTIATING WITH TIME.
The schedule not only tells me the sense of time, but it also tells me to negotiate with time. I like to use the word ‘negotiate’ as compared to ‘plan’. To me, plan means you put things what you want to do at certain time and avoid putting things at other time. Unfortunately, things do not easily go that way. Sometimes you do not have the complete freedom of putting things in where they are supposed to be.
For example, my test may be at the morning after my friend big birthday party. None of those items could be changed. So instead of crying and making sad excuses for not attending the party, I could negotiate with my time. That is, if I want to attend the party, I have to prepare two nights before and leave the night before the exam free for the party. If the 3 nights preceding the exams are unavailable due to other reason, then I have to prepare even earlier.
While planning is done at the commencement of months or semester, negotiating time can always be done at the relatively late stage.
Planning somehow denotes rigidity and some sense of strictness. Negotiating time, on the other hand offers some flexibility. Still, whether it is planning or negotiating, the key is keep your schedule in one page in an accessible place.
6. Keep a Healthy Body (to be continued ...)
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