Rules for Success in University : Some Practical Tips

December 10, 2019

Rules for Success in University : Some Practical Tips

University is a great time for developing and evolving yourself. You can make friends, go to parties, learn new things and meet a lot of new people. This is what makes it so special and memorable for a lot of people. However, studying in college is equally important as you’ve already paid for the degree and it won’t be of any value to you if you don’t score well in it. Moreover, having bad scores in college can severely dampen your chances of getting a good job after graduation. However, without a guidebook to tell you what needs to be done to be successful in University, you would have to go through trial and error which is a very long and wasteful process.


This guide can help sort that out for you. Given below are some important tips and steps you should take to ensure your success in college.


Start Everything Right Away


When you put off tasks for later, it may initially feel like something you could be doing in order to reduce stress. However, it doesn’t actually do much for reducing your stress levels, and instead just increases them. This can cause a defined break in your progress and pile up your work for even more days. When you will actually begin a task, you will not have a way to finish it in time due to the increased workload. Hence, it is a good idea to get started right away. This does not mean that you should start everything right away, you can even divide the task into smaller chunks which can be done one at a time.


Use Peer Pressure to Your Advantage


Peer pressure does not always have to be a bad thing. If you begin to surround yourself with people who are not just success-oriented, but obsessed with excelling, you will begin to see a lot of it wear off on you as well. You can gain a ton of motivation by simply spending time with them. Once you begin to challenge each other, learn from each other, and teach each other; you will see that you will become a lot more confident in your studies and will begin to work harder than you have ever before in your life. This will ensure that you will be successful in university throughout your course.


Have a Paradigm Shift for Your Exams

It is true that exams can be stressful and bring out the anxiety within anyone. However, that is not really their purpose. Exams are actually meant to be there as a way to provide you feedback on your learning. This is what will help you to make sure you are able to understand the concepts you have been learning. If you begin to set up a study routine that allows you enough time to prepare for the exam way before its due date, you will develop the confidence to overcome that anxiety. This will help adjust your paradigm for the exams and help you to see that it is a stepping stone to your success.


Believe in Yourself


Success is a complicated matter that has been defined in various forms by various leaders, writers and poets. However, all the success in the world will not be of any use if you do not believe in yourself. Success requires you to persevere in the face of danger and pain. You cannot do that if you don’t believe you can. As the famous Napoleon Hill once said: “What you can conceive and believe in your mind, you can definitely achieve.” Once you get a positive attitude for your university life, you can begin following through tasks and staying determined to achieve your goals no matter what happens.


Stay in Control of Your Life


You need to learn to be in control of your life at university since without doing so, you cannot expect to make any progress through the three or four years of your course. You can start by defining your goals. They can be anything you feel you can achieve, yet they should pose a challenge to you as well. Without the challenging part, you will not have the motivation to keep going. You can use a planner or journal to manage your time and begin to set your own assignment deadlines a day or two before the due date. These small steps will help you to procrastinate less and less by the day and get in control of where you spend your time.


Read the Outlines of the Course


When you look at the course from the perspective of a student, you don’t realize many things about it. It is a good idea to go through the outlines of the course provided by your teacher. This will give you a different perspective for your course and will help offer you insight into what you need to focus on studying for your course. This will make it easier for you to analyze the goals and everything else in organized ways and it will become extremely easy to prepare for your exams. You will begin to understand which topic can show up in the exam and how to prepare for it. If you haven’t been offered an outline for your course, you can request your teacher for the same.


Listen and Take Part in Class


When you take notes in class, you are simply transcribing what’s being said and written on the board. However, proper listening involves a lot more than this. It requires you to pay attention by developing an interest in the lecture and also avoiding any judgment of the speaker on the same basis. You can start by paying attention to the beginning and ending of the lecture as this will create a flow for you to follow. This will create a story in your mind which you can then summarize in the form of notes afterward. This will allow you to evaluate what you are hearing and then store it in your memory better than if you had simply taken notes in class. You should try to look for the main parts of the lecture instead of trying to get everything like a passive listener.


Read Without Letting Your Brain Zone Out


Reading is a task all students dislike equally, but this does not have to be the case. It is something you need to do to ensure you score well in your course. If you begin to avoid the meaning of the words by letting your brain wander off in daydreams while your eyes keep scrolling through the text, you should know that this will make the task take even longer than it has to. If you begin to read in a more active manner by understanding and storing what you are reading, it will help you to read long texts in a shorter amount of time. Once you begin to summarize the long ideas mentioned in the long texts, you will soon begin to see that this will save you time taken to understand what you read, to learn it and also of paraphrasing it since all of this will be covered with the process of active reading. You will then simply be able to prepare for short tests by quickly reading through the text and your notes.


Avoid Going into Panic Frenzies


If you feel yourself getting stressed out in college, it is normal. College is meant to train you for a work environment where you will have to work hard every day irrespective of your future profession. This is why college emulates it at a much higher level than what you would actually experience in the future. If you feel that you are getting panic attacks however, this is cause for concern and you should take a few steps to control it. You can start by doing your best to reduce your basic symptoms of stress. Taking rhythmic breaths can help slow down your heart rate, after which you can take other steps that help you become stress-free. This may include taking a short walk, doing some yoga, meditating or even simply talking it through with someone you feel comfortable with. Once you have been relieved of the panic attack, you can think about the source and find a way to make it okay. Be it – time pressures, finances, balancing work with college and personal life, leaving home, relationships, exams or anything else; you must get rid of the problem before it sends you in more panic frenzies.


Grow as You Learn New Things


In the end, college isn’t about getting a degree alone. It is also to help you become a better version of yourself and also perform your best with minimum things to lose if you fail. This offers you a once in a lifetime sandbox experience of real-life where you can try all the new things you feel like trying and make the best out of each and every moment you live.
Once you begin to implement the above steps in your university life, you will soon begin to realize that you have all you need to be able to make a difference in the university spectrum. All you gotta do now is work towards making it possible with your hard work and dedication.

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