Get Disciplined [Reddit Mirror]

So this is just what worked for me and is not guaranteed to work for everyone.

First off you’re going to want to really stick to portioning things out. After high school I’d say procrastination should be a habit you actively stomp out. It’ll only hinder you in the long run. Do a little bit over the course of a week instead of everything all at once.

With that said the way to juggle multiple topics at once is to have specific days where you have 1 main topic with the other topics as breaks from the main topic. You’ll also probably plan your semesters around main topics and some more gimme easy topics. Having to juggle 2 main topics is okay. 3 is doable if you start eating into your weekends. But 4+ I find to be burnout territory and 6+ just unsustainable. You’ll also want to have certain days in a week where you schedule in practice problems (this is great group studying time) and absolutely make sure you review your answers and see why you got things right and wrong. Once a week you’ll want to spend like half a day with a meta overview where you sit there connecting the subjects to each other and to past subjects. This is useful for connecting dots and breaking up the more monotonous studying so anything that’ll make things fun for at least a few hours each week will help a lot. Don’t overdo it on the fun because usually the fun stuff takes a lot of extra time which eats away at the real studying.

A final tip for juggling a lot of content is to make use of spaced repetition like Anki! This will help you remember topics you’ve covered even months prior and will make finals or whatever so much easier.