my worst mistakes as a college student

Hello everyone! In this video, I want to cover my five top mistakes as a college student and how you can avoid repeating them! We will cover:

* Sitting in the back of the classroom.
* Skipping reading materials altogether and sticking with class notes - good for cramming, not that good for high marks.
* Focusing too much on the aesthetic of your notes.
* Not taking language lessons for the entirety of college
* Not approaching professors when needed..

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[jasreenkmultani]

Just a summary:

📖 don’t sit in the back of the classroom (if you have a low attention span)
📖 use textbook (+ more materials) in addition to class notes for better grades
📖 don’t focus too much on aesthetics of notes/planner etc.. don’t spend way too much time on MAKING notes rather than STUDYING/LEARNING them
📖 not taking language classes as soon as you get into college
📖 not approaching professors for advice (if you’re shy/introvert)

My personal advice:
🥇be one step ahead form your class - read through the chapter/ watch YouTube videos on the material in ADVANCE, so the class would make MUCH MORE sense.
🥈 Never delay your assignments/ Homework till the weekend because you’re less likely to be productive. Monday-Friday are hectic, but still finish the easy stuff first and keep weekends for reviewing notes/working/ relaxing/organizing.
🥉just being in the library for hours won’t help you to get that A unless you’re ACTUALLY studying.. it’s more important to be at a place you’re comfortable and relaxed even if you decide to study for 30 mins.

Good luck ❤️

[randomrandom]

I'm in grade 12 and as soon as I saw your title, the first thing that popped in my mind was how much time I wasted the past year. You never get that time back. I regret not communicating enough. I regret not making myself a priority. I regret procrastinating. Always. These are things I will carry with myself always. To anyone reading, please don't waste this precious gift called time. Life is very short and you get only one life to live out your dreams. Get your arse off the couch and work for your dreams!

[kedeeky]

The notes aesthetic spoke to me lol. I used to ALWAYS need to have very colorful notes and would even keep starting over if I thought the page wasn't "neat" enough. I'm currently studying for my real estate license, and I've adopted a modified version of the Cornell Method (I don't do the summary at the bottom and I use grid paper so I don't have to waste time using a ruler for margins) and keep it down to a black pen and use color to put extra notes in the margins or emphasize very key words. Omg, it's made things so much more efficient for me! I'm also a believer of sitting in the front of my class. It definitely helps to keep me engaged in the learning!

As always, your videos inspired me to find more efficient ways to get the most out of my learning materials and practice EFFECTIVE STUDYING instead of looking at notes "just because".

[marymendez]

I think that my big mistake in College is not participate in classes, I am a student of law too, so is supposed that I have to be a person who need to talk almost 100% percent of the time. So, if I have to give a advice a student (no matter which career you chose) is PARTICIPATE IN CLASS.

[sergiototo]

It looks like your handwriting changed from the beginning of your YouTube channel to now. It is now more relaxed and efficient. That’s one of the things that I also changed about myself as well which was instead of focusing on the neatness of my handwriting I write more relaxed and focus on the things that are important🙂

[yuumedreams]

I made the mistake of trying to make my notes aesthetically pretty and using only pen. I now try to simplify my notes by writing in pencil and note using so much colors for everything. I usually only have 4 colors: yellow for brief important/emphasized info, grey for info related to the first (usually done in textbooks) purple for vocab/key terms, and some other color I have for like names, dates (depends on the class altho the 4th gets neglected anyway x'D)

[aestheralu]

Thanks for the reminder 😂. My biggest mistakes was choosing the wrong courses that I’m not passionate about. My advices to everyone is that choose the courses you’re passionate about and suitable for your learning lifestyles. So yeah, if you’re choosing the wrong courses, you’re probably wasting money and times but you may want to work for some years and earn pocket money before apply the right courses for you.

[saraalexandra]

I love your videos! The aesthetic part really spoke to me, not just for notes but also for my planner, since I'm such a perfectionist. Thanks to you I'm realizing that my planner and notes are tools to help me move foward, methods, and don't require perfection 😊

[ughnowwhat]

I could relate to most of the things you listed out in this video. In my last two and a half years of university (out of five) I had to make up for all the things I did wrong before and I regret a lot, but I guess it is all part of the learning experience you get in university.

[nikkizetlian]

I am also very shy. I am trying to change that.

[izabelaoliviablog]

Love this! Academia is intimidating but at the same time it has very humbling qualities. I too constantly beat myself up over not being more extroverted during class and reaching out to teachers. I feel as though this has been one of the greatest burdens on me academically speaking. It makes me feel better knowing that it is not just me who has these worries. xx

[miguelgu]

I feel so weird watching this video ahah, I'm listening to it in English but when Mariana show's her work I'm reading it in Portuguese ahh my brain can't fathom xD

[nievesjsuarez]

You're an inspiration. Thank you.

[martynak]

I am so happy that I've found your channel! I am now at my 2nd year and things started to slip out a bit. Now I am watching maaany of your videos, with that amazing content, taking notes and making a good plan how to slay the whole next semester 👌😎

[gracieneely]

I just found your channel today and I can’t stop watching 😂 your videos are great!

[umuterdogan]

It might sound a bit weird but whenever I feel myself stressed I watch one of your videos. They are incredibly calming and informative.

[maximilianarlt]

Thank you for the video! I also appreciate the summary in the description A LOT. It saves a lot of time, when i'm in a hurry and distills the information to your most important points. Greeting from Germany :D

[jennifernguyen]

This is so helpful! It’s my first year of university and it’s been interesting figuring things out on my own. I am an absolute lover of stationery and the aesthetic of notes. But I know I shouldn’t let that get in the way of having effective information down on paper! 😪

[ItsMe-oxlm]

What I really regret from my path in university is that I didn’t study with purpose/intention, all I did was homework and study for my tests. Right now I am studying for my postgraduate’s application test, but until now I am conscious about the knowledge that I learned at college.

I started in a good shape my university career, but when I was like in third year I started to skip classes, and I was like: I can learn by myself with the book, or I don’t need the professor. When I was in class I avoided to be in front of the professor, so yes I was distracted. I am really sorry about all the things I did, because I feel like a wasted all those years. But here I am trying to do the right things.

Another thing that I just learned from YouTube is that we really need to work hard in order to get what we want. Nothing is free! And in my country students don’t have the knowledge of “how to be a student”, because we don’t have to make a huge effort to get into college or boards exams, we don’t have like this healthy competition. So until I started to watch “Strive to fit” or your channel is when I realized that we really need to study in a integrated way and be conscious about it. So thank you 🙏🏻. I love the direction of the Chanel. BTW I started to study English when I was in college, and I have abandoned it... but it’s time get better, so this is one my goals this year, to improve it.

[MaryAmongStories]

my biggest mistake was studying law AHAH! but I met you, so idk. <3