Studying (game) Without Procrastinating

January 2nd, 2010 admin Posted in education |

By Hong Kirby

A concerning problem for all college students are their exams. Be it the midterms or the final exams, it is always on their minds when it comes up. Fortunately most students understand that this is not something that they can usually cram for at the last minute, but there are still the ones who can not seem to put this concept into their heads and therefore walk down the road to academic probation.

If you look at this statistically, it is only a small percentage of students that fail their exams because they can not seem to understand that they can not pass an exam because of how a professor will usually design the test. But if you look at the numbers, the number is quite extraordinary forcing people to wonder why they continue this path of failure.

Students who fall into this category are not all as foolish as one may conclude. Some are just completely lazy, others have no ambition and few deem it as pointless to even attempt so just accept their failure or it may be a combination of these involved with other factors. Though there can be other reasons for a student’s misgivings where the most common reasons being a decline in their physical health such as contracting a cold or a major incident in their family such as an accident or a death.

Now sometimes it is impossible for a student to control what road they are walking on as mentioned previously, but for the most of them, they are just simply moronic. They completely fail to understand that it is impossible for them to cram for a final in the last minute. They might have previous attempts of passing a certain class using this method, but usually those classes are a complete joke to the name of higher education. Such classes as University 100 or maybe a low level psychology class are just plain way too easy for college students that even an elementary school student should be able to pass.

How a midterm is usually designed by the professor is that they decide to make it cumulative. While this is an easy concept to understand the student who crams for these tests are unable to understand their own limits. As cramming may suffice for a quiz or a small test as they concentrate on a small number of points of being taught an exam is completely different. Cramming for an exam such as the midterm or the final is a completely irresponsible way to prepare for such an important part of the class.

Exams are much more extensive as it usually covers multiple points that were made by the professor during the lecture and are usually more in-depth compared to the counterpart. Therefore for a student who may continually use cramming to study for an exam is considered stupid for never learning that it doesn’t usually work. As there is a saying, “fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me”.

Understanding that cramming should not be the usual method of studying is important for a student to understand and is the one of the firsts step to academic success.

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What Every Mother Wants

By Danial Holland

I recently celebrated my fifth Mother’s Day. My family spent the day together doing simple fun things. I was perfectly content with my day and the gift my son made for me himself but later that evening as I watched the news (actual several news shows at once as my husband controlled the remote) I listened to several interviews with mothers in various walks of life and I started to wonder what our world would be like if mothers, all mothers, were given more power to control the world. I was no longer content. I know I have a wishlist and I despair of seeing my wishes come true.

Peace has to top any mother’s wishlist. My son is only 5 but I have already suffered through sending beloved nephews off to war and war zones. I cannot imagine sending my child to war. No mother wants to. I imagine if mothers made world policy then we would see much less war. I don’t believe there are many people who desire war but if the women who actually gave life also had the final say in when it would be spent I think there would be a lot less war.

Plenty for all has to quickly follow the wish for peace as it the unequal division of the world’s wealth that so often causes problems in the world. When there is little hope to achieve or a constant struggle to maintain the basic necessities of life then people will be driven to extremes. Our world has a tremendous bounty of food and water and other resources. Modern technology has created tremendous advances in health care. Yet there are mothers who cannot provide food, shelter, clothing, care, or protection for their children.

Understanding would likely resolve the conflicts with the first two wishes. Mothers of all races and creeds share far more in terms of priority and experience than they differ in ideology and culture. No matter where, when or what we worship our prayers contain similar wishes, hopes, and fears for our children and that is an essentially human bond that could serve as a foundation for others. How much conflict and war in our world has simply been caused by not understanding? How much peace would we achieve by finding ways to bridge over those misunderstandings with common wishes? I think with better understanding would also come more tolerance for those differences that now separate us.

I will stop with these three wishes as three is a magical number. Perhaps if enough mothers share my wishes then they will indeed come true. I can only hope that my future Mothers Days will see more peace, plenty and understanding and less war, want, and intolerance.

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