<p>Hi guys, I'm Sophie I am French and American, and I'll be studying in France this year, in Diderot University majoring in economics and management.</p>
<p>I was wondering what are your best tips to keep organized in college? and what are your best study tips? I am so so nervous about going in September :s</p>
<p>Take care :)</p>
<p>I have ADHD so being organized is sort of a “sink or swim” type of matter for me. </p>
<p>Get a dry-erase board for personal use. I use a 11x14 one you can get on Amazon for $10 that I put right next to my desk for thoughts and priorities, but a larger weekly or monthly dry erase board could also be handy. You can additionally use a daily planner to organize what you want to accomplish in one day, but make it so it’s a general to-do list and not a strict time schedule as things pop up when we don’t expect it.</p>
<p>Use a different binder for each class , and it’s a bonus if it has a built in accordian-file thing for individual papers and assignments. At the very least you should be using a different folder for each class if you don’t want 4-5 binders at once - make sure it isn’t cardboard and instead the stronger plastic folders so they don’t fall apart though.</p>
<p>If you use Google Chrome, install the StayFocusd plug-in to restrict your use of time-sucking websites like Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, either entirely or to a specific number of minutes per day. Personally I’m a big FIFA player so I’ve in order to stay focused (pun not intended), I have to block all websites with specific keywords as well as the usual sites I would normally go on that have to do with the FIFA video game. If you don’t use Google Chrome, then you download it anyways because it’s better than Safari, Mozilla Firefox, and don’t get me started on IE. </p>
<p>There are a ton of apps on the Chrome Web Store you can use for productivity, but in most cases you want to stick to pencil & paper for note taking because you don’t want a computer in front of you for class. </p>
<p>Keep your work space clean, always make sure there is a spare pencil and clean paper available. For essays, start early and outline what you are going to write beforehand. I usually outline my essay for 1-2 days, add to my points the next, and then type it out when I know exactly what I’m going to write. Starting a paper the night before it is due adds 2-3 hours to how long it should take due to the inability to come up with ideas off the bat, as well as a poor quality paper overall. You can’t improvise good grades.</p>
<p>Can’t think of anymore but those are the big ones.</p>
<p>Wow, great tips @gr33kbo1. I didn’t know that Google Chrome had a plug in that restricted certain websites. Will definitely be using that once I go back to school in a couple weeks.</p>
<p>[Study</a> Hacks » Blog Archive » Getting Things Done for College Students: The Full System](<a href=“http://calnewport.com/blog/2007/07/20/getting-things-done-for-college-students-the-full-system/]Study”>Getting Things Done for College Students: The Full System - Cal Newport)</p>
<p>I honestly don’t follow this anymore, but I should. His whole blog is good.</p>