I just finished editing my buddy Stefan Knapen’s free ebook he’s giving away. For a guy who learned English from watching ‘Friends’ episodes I’m thoroughly impressed that he runs a completely English blog on study hacks. As I was editing I thought I’d quickly share with you the fundamentals of editing college papers or any paper for that matter.
1: Before you start:
Before you even start, make sure you know what you’re writing about or editing. I can edit a social science paper in less than 5 minutes (correcting thousands of undergrads papers will give you superhuman editing skills!). Editing a paper on mathematics or chemistry on the other hand is a much slower process. I’m not saying that you couldn’t edit a paper on a subject you’re not familiar with but it is much easier/faster if you do know the content. This brings me to my second point; make sure you have enough time to do the job. Many students don’t give themselves enough time at the end of the day to properly edit before they have to submit their paper. Editing is the most overlooked step in paper writing but crucial to secure a top grade.
Over the last few months I’ve had dozens of students join my program. For those of you that don’t know; when I sit down with a student for the first time by phone or over skype I ask that they have 3 pieces of information prepared for me.
The courses they took last semester
The courses they are taking this semester
Their top three frustrations with University
With this information I’m usually able to match new students with a tutor that work relatively well with them. During this initial interview I really get to the core of what they are about. Many students don’t stop to realize what kind of problems they really have with university until I force them into confronting there demons by laying out exactly what their problems are. Therefore to help more students, I’m going to introduce a new series into effective study skills where I share the frustrations many of my students faced and how they conquered them.
During this series I will be concentrating on students’ individual case studies and how they are succeeding in speeding less time studying and getting higher grades
So my brother has opened up a new blog called psone classics. He’s written up a little article on responsible gaming in university. Please check out the post and take a look at the blog.
Video games are a great way to entertain yourself, they’re relatively cheap, engaging, and if you have friends that play as well, they can even be social. But sadly there is a dark side to gaming, and many of us have seen friends slowly disappear to the cave of their dorm rooms with a computer loaded with World of Warcraft, boxes full of energy drinks, with friends and homework forbidden inside.
This is a sad thing, seeing your friends disappear into that world, where nothing else matters but that next item they’ve been working towards, or that boss they need to slay before they can sleep for the night. It’s really tragic to see this take hold on a friend of yours, but even worse when you become that cave dwelling Red Bull guzzling potato.
How can you avoid this gruesome fate?
This list will help.
(I mean, if you don’t stay in school and get a good job, where will your gaming budget go? Down that’s where.)
I’ve been keeping a big secret from everyone over the last few months and now I’m finally ready to unveil what I’ve been working on all this time. I’ve been studying how premed students succeed (and fail) by talking to thousands of students, premed students, teachers, admission officers, medical students, doctors and education experts to put together a system that is going to completely change the way you see premed. The product is in my opinion amazing and we will be announcing the price really soon. In the meantime you can check out the product and get a free premed course component here.
I’ve been working on this project for 6 months and I’m sure you won’t be disappointed as we’re going to have a ton of free tips, tricks and content, even if you don’t want a copy of the paid program you can still try out the intro program absolutely free. As an example, here is a free snippet of what you’ll get for free when you check out the free program.
I’ve spoken at length about procrastination in previous posts however I had a recent conversation with a student who got me thinking about a new aspect of procrastination and how to conquer it. My student started out with a B- average and went to an A- average in a single semester based on what I’m going to share with you today.
But first a little history…
Historically I had always attacked procrastination the way most people do. I’d keep telling myself to ‘get shit done’ and when I didn’t get said shit done I would wonder why I wasn’t capable of getting said shit done. This followed me for years and years. I’ve also spoken to hundreds of students about this particular issue. I’ve also found a solution that works for me and most of my students but it’s more complex than you think. You see ‘and this will be difficult for quite a few of you’ I’m going to share with you a cold hard truth that very few students realize but nonetheless is central to your overall productivity and long term success.
As the holiday season is quickly approaching I wanted to extend my warmest holiday wishes to everyone that has been supporting us over the last 6 months and I’d also like to provide everyone with an update on my little company, how it’s progressing and what other education programs I’m putting together in the new year.
Virtual Teaching Assistants Progress Thus Far
As of today, I’ve gotten dozens of students, hundreds of emails and 12 employees. Our students have done very well, some students have gone from failing classes to passing those same classes in a matter of weeks. Others have gone from B’s and C’s to A’s in the same amount of time. Also, we’ve had zero refunds which is really a testament to my virtual teaching assistants and their commitment to help students achieve academic success.
Challenges Virtual Teaching Assistant Method Has Faced
We’ve also had quite a few challenges, we currently updated to a completely new shopping cart system, I went through a lot of trial and error with pay per click adverting until figuring it out and I’ve been putting way too much work into my little company while it expands.
In my ongoing efforts to experiment on my body and brain so you don’t have to I recently decided to go on a raw vegan diet for 7 days. Just like my College Superman Breakfast and my Superman Dinner experiments. It was both an amazing and difficult experience. For those that know me, I’m no vegetarian, however I got some really interesting results from this little experiment which I think will really help both students and non-students alike.
My Raw Food Diet Quick Results
Loss of 3 pounds
Massive increase in energy
No significant loss in muscle strength (I performed a pre/post muscle tension test and discovered only a slight loss in overall strength)
Smoother skin
Calmer attitude (whether this was mental or not I’m not sure, but I felt less violent overall, if anyone else has done this and had the same thing happen to them please explain it in the comments section)
Hello everybody, I’ll make this really short. The video above explains what the offer is about. More or less you click on the link above, I give you a half hour of tutoring no strings attached. This gives me enough time to set up an A+ study schedule for a paper, exam or a reading schedule for a single class.
This offer is gone once I fill up my 50 spots. I have 50 tutoring spots, not 500, not 5000… 50! So I’d highly suggest you click on the link and sign up now. If you don’t like it I’ll just send you you’re buck back.
EDIT: I just put this up and 10 spots just went in like an hour, soooo I’d suggest you click on it right now.
Hello fellow students, another Friday, another study break! Here is a classic study break for most of you, my favorite youtube video channels. I’ve been working on this for the past 3 years (if wasting time watching youtube video’s can be considered research). So without further ado, check out some of my personal favorites.
Shaytards: This guy runs a video every day about his kids, wife, job and beard. It is truly better than television.
TedTalks: One of the absolute best conferences during the year and all their lectures are free for anyone to download. The talks are also really easy to understand and very well done. I really suggest you add this channel to your youtube account if you want to be both entertained and interested.
Current: A great channel that throws up a ton of professional content on social responsibility, the environment and innovation. They always have one or two video’s up a day so you’ll have plenty of content to choose from.
Drunk History: Probably the funniest video’s on Youtube. The channel was set up by Jack Black and Micheal Sara. Trust me, get some ppl together and watch these video’s tonight. After you’re finished come back here and thank me in the comments.
Hello fellow students, another Friday, another study break! This week, I’d like to talk about something most college students don’t know the first thing about but really should, how to properly pour a beer. I’ve included a link here that will provide you with all the details on the proper pour, however, if you’d like a simple three step guide, keep reading.
Step 1: Choose Your Beer
Here is a quick and dirty guide, light beers should be served as cold as humanly possible as the cold numbs your taste buds and lets you perceive the flavour of the beers, drinking warm light beer pretty much the same as drinking warm piss so keep them cold. Kraft beers can be drank and cooler temperatures and are at the most opportune temperature for consumption 15-30 minutes after they have been taken out of the fridge.
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