"If you have to do the work, it well."
- Lailah Gifty Akita
"Maybe it doesn’t matter how smart you are or aren’t, but how much you are willing to learn."
- Geetanjali Mukherjee
"You have to make your own condensed notes. You learn from MAKING them. A lot of thinking goes into deciding what to include and exclude. You develop your own system of abbreviations and memory methods..."
- Peter Rogers
"Ambient sounds, especially with words, occupy about 5-10% of your intellectual bandwidth.By wearing ear protectors, you acoustically isolate yourself. This freed up bandwidth can now be focused on the..."
"The mystery of the MAGIC BATHROOM will be revealed unto thee...The table next to the sink is for flashcards. I say a Monty Python skit called, "Every sperm is sacred," and it gave me the idea that, "e..."
"The night before a biochemistry class, I read the lecture notes from last year. I look at the pictures in the book. I read some of the book.Now, I've got the general concept. Sure...There's a couple o..."
"Prereading is a game changer. It changed my life. Everyone is smarter when they have seen the material before. You will be too"
"Prereading is a game changer. It changed my life...Everyone is smarter when they have seen the material before. You will be too."
"I'm gonna take all my sadness, frustration, anger and energy and channel it into becoming the best possible student.I AM GOING TO BECOME A LEARNING MACHINE."
"(From chapter on Getting Started at Stanford).Go ahead, go to all your parties. Go ahead and go home to your families and friends every weekend. You are probably smarter than me. But it doesn't matter..."