Studying over Thanksgiving Break

Everyone is excited and ready to go home for Thanksgiving break.  Everyone is looking forward to exactly that – a break!  But don’t take too much of a break from studying.  Remember that learning takes varied and repeated exposure over time.   If you take a week completely off, when you return to school you will have to relearn some of the information.   While you don’t have to study all the time, here are a few quick and easy suggestions:

• Put some of the most important or hardest information you want to master on study cards.  Review them for about 20 minutes several times over break.  You can do this while exercising, right before bed, while eating, or whenever you have a few quiet minutes.
• Schedule an hour or two to go to your local library and study.  You will feel more like studying in an academic atmosphere.  (I think Starbucks works for this too!)
• If you have some friends at home from your school, make plans to meet and study and then go out for lunch.
• Tell your family right from the beginning of the break when you plan to study and ask their help to make it happen.
• Do your studying early in the break.  You are more likely to do it then than at the very end.
• Plan something fun that you will do after you complete the study session.
• If you plan to stay home to study, don’t try to do it in your room (on your bed!) or in front of the television.  Pick another place – either where you did you studying in high school or someplace completely different – wherever you think you will have the most concentration and motivation and the fewest distractions.

 Have a Happy Thanksgiving!  Return to school relaxed and rested, ready to finish strong!