What do you wish you had known when starting college?

[Chris Hibner]

I want to keep this short:

1) You will retain more (and for a longer time) if you study many times for short time periods than if you study in one long study period. This has been shown in many psychological and educational studies. Break up your study periods and take advantages of short downtimes (like between classes) to quickly study something.

2) GET SLEEP!!!! You think you're doing yourself a favor by doing an all night cram session, but in reality you would have done better on the exam if you stopped studying and got 8 hours of sleep. With a little experience, you will start to notice when your productivity starts to take a dive. As soon as you notice this, it's sleep time. Set your alarm for 8 hours from now and resume studying after sleeping.

Good luck. If you do it right it will be the hardest thing you've ever done while also being the best and most rewarding thing you've ever done.