This semester was not my best semester as far as grades go. \ud83d\ude41 I will share that right now, however, I did learn a lot about myself and my study habits.<\/p>\n
Kyra’s Do’s and Don’ts<\/p>\n
Don’t Study in your Dorm Room<\/strong><\/p>\n I often say to myself, “Self, just go to your dorm so you can get your Japanese homework done there.”<\/p>\n That is a HUGE LIE. I usually get to my dorm, decide I am hungry, start cooking and then tell myself that I will start my homework after I get done cooking. In reality the only thing I end up doing after I eat is sleep. Which brings me to my next lesson…<\/strong><\/p>\n Do Not Order Jimmy’s\/Papa’s\/Hut\/or Pit Whenever You Feel Like it<\/strong><\/p>\n This may seem like the obvious to you, but for whatever reason last semester, I ordered a meal (sometimes 2) every night and it used up a lot of my money! I ate pita pit and papa johns at least ten times a week!! The solution to this is, use your meal plans first, and come home at a decent time to cook dinner before going back out to study. One could also convince their friends that they are hungry too, so that they split the bill with you \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n Do Stay Up and Get The Last Bit of Homework Done- BEFORE You Go To Bed<\/strong><\/p>\n One too many times last semester I had just a little bit of homework left… just a little bit and I would put it off until the following morning. I did this, knowing my habit of BARELY waking up on time and hitting the snooze button like it was saving lives with every press. Lesson Learned… get it done BEFORE I go to bed… it’s not that hard.<\/p>\n Do Go Over Your Class Notes Every Night<\/strong><\/p>\n I mean really Kyra, why do you write all of those notes during class, if you are never going to look at them again? Its a waste of paper!!! Look over all of your class notes every night, that will help you retain the information! DO IT !<\/p>\n Do Not Start on Your Homework at 11:00pm if it is due at Midnight!<\/strong><\/p>\n Get it done before then, enough said.<\/p>\n Do make space in your daily schedule to study.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n All last semester, the only time I had available to study was after 8:00 pm. Although I am a night owl, this was only enough time to get my homework done and get to bed. Late at night just wasn’t the best STUDY time.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Well, there \u00a0you have it.<\/p>\n I will do some more reflecting and see what other things I need to keep on my forefront as the next semester begins.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This semester was not my best semester as far as grades go. \ud83d\ude41 I will share that right now, however, I did learn a lot about myself and my study habits. Kyra’s Do’s and Don’ts Don’t Study in your Dorm Room I often say to myself, “Self, just go to your dorm so you can … Continue reading End of the Semester. End of The Year. It is Time To Reflect<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}