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Uni student here. I actually do fairly well in school (I struggle more in other places), so I guess here's some tips from me for anyone interested, it'll mostly be college oriented but it should generally work for anyone. THIS GONNA BE LONG AF YO SO JUST A HEADS UP (ill bold the main points): **Getting Up** - I am actually one of the few people who doesn't use the "50 alarms" method of waking up. Instead **I just set one alarm usually around 1-2 hours earlier than when I have to be wherever I need to be** (for reference, without any sort of messing around I can finish my morning routine in about a half an hour, so literally **I just leave myself a lot of room for messing around**). Unless I'm ridiculously sleep deprived I usually won't just fall back asleep after getting woken up, so it's all I need most of the time. - **When my alarm goes off I immediately grab my phone to turn it off and play around on my phone with the brightness setting set to a somewhat high level, basically using the blue light to wake me up more.** To make sure I don't just lay there for like an hour on the internet I constantly watch the clock, and usually after 15-20 minutes pass I start worrying more about having to get on with the day and that's enough to get me out of bed. Otherwise **you could set another alarm to tell you to get off your phone after a certain period of time.** - **Try to keep your morning routine as consistent as you can.** Don't leave things "to do tomorrow morning." If you're like me, you're either going to forget or just not do it. Once you get into a habit of doing a set number of things every morning you'll less likely forget to do something, like take your meds or grab your keys. - To keep track of your shit, **put them all in one place, in the same place, every night, and keep the items you need into as few "separate things" as possible.** For example, my keys and my wallet are attached, so even tho it's two items it's only one I have to remember to grab. Then everything I need for school is in my backpack, and finally I have my phone. This means I only need to remember to grab 3 things in the morning to make sure I have everything I need for the day. - **Have both a "big breakfast" and a "quick breakfast" that you can make depending on how much in a rush you are.** That way in case you're running late you can still grab a protein bar or something before running out the door so you don't end up trying to run on an empty stomach all morning. I'll have either cereal/oatmeal and a smoothie, a sandwich, or a muffin depending on how much in a rush I am. **Studying** - Agree with OP in that you should **avoid studying at home as much as possible.** Go to a cafe or a library, it'll help I promise. I'm weird in which the more "comfortable" in a place I am the less work I end up getting done, so I actually have to move around a lot to study, but if you're good with just one study place like OP then obviously find one you like and stick to it. - I find **a lot of ADHD folk need some sort of background sound to work, so try a bunch of different things and see what works best for you.** For example, I work well with cafe ambiance or electronic/hip-hop/chillstep music (there's youtube livestreams for this type of music and I also have a [spotify playlist](https://open.spotify.com/user/1289535776/playlist/4g34FEpF5N5VomfCEgMQmR) if anyone's curious), but for some reason classical music and music with strong vocals distract me more than it helps me. I know another one of my friends likes to watch a "stupid show that doesn't require much attention" when studying, so she'll turn on some dumb anime or sitcom or something while working. - Also as OP said **see if you prefer the sound with or without headphones.** They seem to prefer headphones, but I honestly try to go without them if I can, as otherwise sometimes the music gets too much into the "forefront" of my mind. If I just let it play out into a room it melds more into the background for me. - **Have some sort of study plan.** You don't have to outline an entire schedule or something but I've found I'll avoid studying if I don't have some sort of concrete thing I need to do because "studying" is too vague for me. Instead I'll decide that I'll read the textbook today, or I'll grind problems, etc. - A little weird, but contrary to blocking out shorter times and then rewarding yourself with breaks, I **block out a really long period of time and keep the thought that "I need to study right now" somewhere in the back of my mind for the entire period.** I don't do well with scheduled 5 minute breaks, because the 5 minute break always turns into a 50 minute breaks. So instead I just have a really long period of time dedicated to studying, with the knowledge that I'll probably end up goofing off here and there. This way when I catch myself goofing off, I realize I'm still supposed to be studying, so I'll make sure to get back to it quicker. **Other Shit** - **Go to your goddamn lectures.** Seriously. - **Take notes on everything, and I mean LITERALLY EVERYTHING.** If your teacher/prof is talking, you better be writing/typing. Worry less about what the "main points" of the subject is, and more about making sure you're actively paying attention. To study for biology I would make literal transcripts of the lectures. You can clean up your notes later if you want. - **Set notifications for all deadlines/appointments you have.** Even little things like handing in an assignment, it's better to be safe than sorry. - Also a little counter-intuitive, but **don't go overboard with the organization.** You don't need 50 binders and notebooks for each class with dividers splitting them for every chapter you cover and 20 different highlighter markers to turn your notes into a rainbow. That's just a million more things you have to either carry around or remember to grab before going to a specific class. Don't throw all your shit together so you can't find it, but don't try to keep everything extremely organized if you know you won't be able to maintain it later. I carry around 2 notebooks, a pencil case, and my laptop and that's it. This works for me cuz most of my stuff is electronic, so I very rarely get papers. If I do, I put them in a notebook, there's so few of them I can pretty much always find them again even if all my subjects are put together. If you run better on physical items, stick to a few notebooks and folders/binders if you really absolutely need it. My high school system consisted of 1 notebook for every 2 classes (I would start from the front for one and start from the back for the other) and one of those large multi-pocket accordion folders when the paper load got the highest. - Another weird tip, but **know yourself and your tendencies when organizing things.** This is gonna be a little hard to explain so bear with me: my room looks like a trash-dump. There are clothes all over the place, my desk is so cluttered you can't work on it, and right now my dresser is broken so there are literally 4 drawers just sitting on my floor on top of stuff. Yet, I very rarely lose or can't find things. Why? Because **even though my room looks like a fucking mess, everything is where I would put it, so when I try to find it later it's always in one of the first few places I look.** Once I needed to keep my key somewhere so I wouldn't lose it. I thought about it for a long while and stuck it in my pencil case because I figured I'd be able to find my pencil case, but later I had completely forgotten I had decided to stick the key *into* the case, so even though I did have it my case while searching, it took me TWO HOURS before I thought to look *into* it for my key. Meanwhile when I was tired and couldn't find a place to put my wallet and literally threw it into my top drawer cuz it was the first thought I had, I easily found it next morning cuz I had put it in one of the first places I thought of, even though it was in an extremely weird spot. So yeah, don't just throw things everywhere so you can't find them again, but don't try to be overly neat just for the sake of being organized. You can put your things into as many different containers as you want, but if you can't find it later it's pointless. - Start assignments early by **pretending the deadline is a lot closer than it really is and overestimating the time it'll take you to do it.** Lab report not due in two weeks? Pretend it's due in one. Think a problem set will just take you a few hours? Bump it up to a few days. Procrastination comes from the "I'll do it later" mindset, so if you can tell yourself you *can't* do it later, then you'll get to it sooner. - If you're getting overwhelmed by assignments, **make a list of all the things you need to do, when they're due, and then put them in order by deadline so you can see how your time's spread.** Yeah 5 assignments seems like a lot all at once, but if 2 aren't due for weeks, 2 should take you a few days and 1 was assigned a week ago and due by Friday suddenly you have a plan of action. This is actually getting ridiculously long so I'm gonna stop, but this is what works for me so hopefully it might help a few of you. Edit: some typos and words.
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