Here are 10 things to know that will help you make your schoolwork more manageable and relieve stress.
- Instead of searching for information on Google try Google Scholar
Google Scholar is great for writing essays or research papers. Regular sites on Google can be outdated, and because of this the information you find could be irrelevant. However, Google Scholar’s sites are useful, reliable fast-paced, and relevant.
- Blow on your thumb to relieve stress.
Blowing on your thumb is proven to make you feel less nervous, and is a very useful technique for calming yourself down before presentations or tests. This action reduces your stress level because by stimulating your nerves, which causes your heart to slow down resulting in you being more calm and relaxed.
- Use other colors instead of black in your notes
The colors yellow and pink highlight points and stimulate mental activity making it easier to remember things written or highlighted in these colors. The colors blue and green make you more calm and relaxed which results in it being easier to concentrate and perceive information.
- If you don’t know how to solve a math equation try using Wolfram Alpha.
This site can solve almost any math equation for you and displays both the correct answer and it also shows how the problem was solved.
- Press CTrl+Shift+T to re-open your last closed tab.
Also, if you accidentally close your window with countless tabs, simply go to history and click the option to restore the previous session.
- Use apps or sites like Keep Me Out to stop you from procrastinating.
This site blocks you from going to any website of your choice for a certain amount of time. This way you can’t get distracted while doing your homework.
- Pour coffee into an ice cube tray to make ice coffee that won’t get watered down.
Don’t you hate it when your ice cubes melt and make your coffee watery? If you fill your ice tray with coffee instead of water you can keep your coffee cold while still containing the original coffee flavor.
- Create prizes to motivate yourself to complete your homework.
For example, reward yourself with a twizzler every time you complete a page.
- When looking into Wikipedia, in the link, replace the “en” with “simple”
By using Simple Wikipedia, you can get your information from a simple and straightforward source.
- Keep mints or mint flavored gum in your pencil case.
Mints increase your memory, concentration, attention span, and judgment. Mint are also good for reducing headaches. Another great use for gum is to chew a different gum flavor than usual while studying and then chew that same gum while taking the test that you were studying for.
By chewing the same gum while taking the test as you did when studying it will help you to jog your memory on test day.
