5 A – Academic Habits – What are mine?

5 A – Academic Habits – What are mine?

In thinking of my academic progress so far, I feel that I have adjusted to college level work.  I have been spending what I thought was a lot of time studying and going over the material from my classes. It has been more of a challenge for me to work with the different ways things are done at college.  The different professors all have their own ways of doing things, which does present a challenge sometimes. Homework is posted different ways, and has to be completed in different ways.  I have not really experienced any failures.  There are a few grades I was disappointed with, but that just means I need to spend more time then I originally thought on my schoolwork. 

I was working on setting a goal for myself to schedule time into my daily schedule for school work.  I thought this would be helpful.  I am currently re-evaluating this goal and adding additional time into my schedule for school work. It has helped me to do this, and to be able to realize that additional time is necessary.  The method that I learned in my reading, which I would like to implement, is the Story Telling method. I was impressed with how it sounded in the reading that I did. I think  it sounds like it is something that may work for me.

“The Story Telling Method has an important benefit: it takes the large volume of information you just received and organizes it within a coherent framework. Not surprisingly, this makes it much easier to retain this information.”

Cited from: http://calnewport.com/blog/category/tips-notetaking/

My goals are to try to apply the above method in my studies, which I think will help me organize my information, and in turn making studying a little easier.  I also need to work on not procrastinating in getting my work done. I have a bad habit of waiting until the last minute to get things done.  I think it would make my life easier to get things done early, and then I don’t have to worry about it.