Oh goodness.
A while ago in Spanish we were talking about study habits and this girl (who I don't particularly enjoy) piped up with the fact that a person should study for two hours per one hour class period they attend. Was she joking? I have five classes (two of which are an hour and a half, so that's three hours), which come out to six hours of total class time for two days (I have three classes on monday and two on tuesday). According to this girl I should be studying for six hours on monday night and six hours on tuesday night! That's just crazy! And I'm sure that's not quite how it goes. I mean I could save some of those hours from the week for the weekend, hah. Maybe in an ideal world I would get that much studying done, but there is way too much going on for me to have any inkling of desire for such extensive studying. Goodness! Then again, if I were to devote that much time to my studies I'd probably do amazingly in my classes.
But in the end I do fine and have had no problems yet with not devoting my whole night and day to pouring over books. Viva la vida!
This whole post was brought on by the fact that I'm about go to the language lab to sit around and study Spanish for two hours! Or as long as I can take it. You know I'm excited.
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By the way, you're in school... what else could be going on in your life that could be "more" important than doing what you need to do to be good at school? Life has specific moments for specific activities. Now is your core-learning time. You will never ever get core-learning time back.
I don't consider the other things I'm doing to be more important, but I do consider them just as important as schooling (such as going on walks or bike rides, and working with the literary magazine, and reading, and et-cetera -- basically the things that will keep me sane). Also, I think that one never stops learning, and maybe right now is when I'll be cramming the most 'knowledge' into my brain, but a lot of knowledge comes after secondary education, and really, it's all up to the person whether or not they continue studying after college.
I thought it was supposed to be 15 min for each hour each day. So, a 3 hour class would require 45 min a night. Of course, I didn't study - so I don't really know. My method was skimming the text book, attending class and arriving about 30 minutes early to class before the test to review my notes and "study" for the test. Somehow, I managed to graduate college with a 4.0. Frankly, I'm just a great BS'er.
(unfortunately I can't put 'talking in the pub' towards my linguistics study time!)