<p>A few months ago I posted asking for a cure. Well, I've finally found MY cure you guys! :D</p>
<p>I put all my books in my car. I mean anything that I have homework out of or need to study goes in my car. </p>
<p>I drive on over to the school (because we have night school & classes, there is always a classroom to work in) or my parent's office and stay there until I have finished EVERYTHING that needs to be done.</p>
<p>I can't do it at home because of the TV and radio and computer (for some reason I am relunctant to goof off on a computer that's not mine).</p>
<p>I can't do it at a library because I start reading IRRELEVENT BOOKS and MAGAZINES (I'm such a freakin' nerd! O_O)</p>
<p>So there's my cure. Go someplace where you can be totally ALONE and its reletively quiet with everything that you need at hand. If you have trouble concentrating, bring a friend.</p>
<p>thats absolutely true.. if i grab an sat book at home i would sleep on it in a matter of minutes but if i grab it in the library i would sleep on it several hours later which is a big difference :D</p>
<p>I don't think that would work for me. I'm kind of distracted easily, by anything. Like if I notice that if I can stretch out the sleeve on my shirt I can see through the material, I could occupy myself like that for long amounts of time haha. I prefer home.</p>
<p>I like going to the library.. I get all my work done there. The last time I studied in my room was like.. april or something..</p>
<p>I used to read magazines too! My concentration lasted for only like 40min when I first started the library thing. Now, it can go up to 3hours ! :) But yeah I used to do the magazine thing too.. 40min of studying and 2hours of reading vogue, harpers bazaar, elle magazines lol.. Ohh last week, there was this magazine someone left on a table next to mine, and it was killing me.. I wanted to grab it and read it so bad!</p>
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I don't think that would work for me. I'm kind of distracted easily, by anything. Like if I notice that if I can stretch out the sleeve on my shirt I can see through the material, I could occupy myself like that for long amounts of time haha. I prefer home.
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<p>i can't study well at home either, but isolated and really quiet places are even harder for me to study in at times. i can't stand dead silence. i start messing with the most retartded things or start singing. it's ridiculous. i find the best environment to be a cafe or semi busy library where there is SOME noise. basically anywhere where i can look up and see people talking and then look down and not really hear anything clearly since it's not too loud.</p>
<p>My cure for procrastination involved deleting AIM and other forms of instant messaging, and then, going online when I need to for school or for college apps.</p>
<p>Obviously, these are just personal experiences, but I think that a little noise can stave off daydreaming for myself. I've selected the most remote places to study (at UWashington, there are plenty of them, especially empty unlocked classrooms) and I just waste my time through daydreaming or sleeping on the spot (I have been known to fall asleep on chairs by arranging three chairs in a linear sequence and then lying on them).</p>
<p>The library doesn't always work well due to the nearby presence of computers and like you quitejaded, I also have a tendency to read irrelevant books or magazines when I'm supposed to study (parrot intelligence, anyone?). The dorm is especially difficult to study in because it's a mess and it's so easy to give up and fall asleep, book wide open. Perhaps though, if I somehow exhausted all of my thoughts for daydreaming, then I could go into an empty room and study. I also have a tendency to pace around when I suddenly understand something, breaking my chain of concentration. In that case, nothing else should be present in the room or else it will occupy my attention when I pace.</p>
<p>The only case in which I can concentrate for a long period of time is when I'm taking collegeboard exams in a very controlled setting. I was the last person to leave the exam room during AP European History and filled up the booklet to its last page (albeit with many cross-outs). Unfortunately,empty classrooms are not controlled settings.</p>
<p>My case is very unique however, as I have Asperger's Syndrome, though I feel I am more ADD than most other Aspies, furthering my difficulties. I never had to develop good studying strategies during high school.</p>
<p>I daydream far too much for my own good. I feel like my mind is this huge train wreck, with a million thoughts colliding at once. If I really have to study, I just go up to my room. Sit on my bed, and study. It's like, when I set my mind in that place where I know I HAVE to get to business, I can get it done a lot easier/faster than when I know I have spare time</p>
<p>simfish, I think with Asp Syn comes really good smarts. I suppose you have to give up something to gain something else. Don't worry about your studying skills. i have problems with daydreaming, too. I'm in the office right now taking a break and I think I spent maybe an hour daydreamining. Its okay because there is no time limit. I'm here to study until I am done.</p>
<p>The bed is a horrible place for me. once I sit on the bed, I fall asleep. if I'm not falling asleep, I'm daydreaming about sex. if I'm not daydreaming about sex, I don't know what I'm doing. But its not studying.</p>
<p>Haha, quitejaded and celebrian, you sound like you're easily distracted. :p</p>
<p>Procrastination? Hmm, I wouldn't know about that. :) I think the best place to study/do homework is either the library or at my desk. I hate sitting in desks, so I quickly get my work done.</p>
<p>celebrian, it sounds like you have random thoughts like me (for example, trying to calculate how soon you'll get 10000 posts). Write down everything that comes into your head in stream of consciousnes-style. It's interesting. :)</p>
<p>the thing is that I'm too lazy to pick up the stupid math book and start doing problems, which I really really need to do. I buy so many books and so many of them go unread because I'm wasting my time either on the Internet or on daydreaming. I have gotten absolutely nothing done in the past few months, when I really should have been self-studying multivariable calculus or statistics. I used a blog to record all of my random thoughts and it's embarrassing how much time I spent on it.</p>
<p>Is this laziness when you're in the library (or wherever) to study?</p>
<p>I used to keep a blog, too. Its kind of stupid. You have to sensor it as to not hurt anyone's feelings (everyone at school read my blog) and etc. Its really stupid. I'm going to buy a sketchbook so i can take it to school and doodle. Practice my drawings. And my poetry. And write whatever I feel like totally uncensored. When I get old, it will be fun to look back at my lu****l teenage years.</p>
<p>I used to spend a lot of time on the stupid blog, too. Making layouts and putting photos and etc. v_v" What a waste of time. Maybe it would have meant something if my good, real friends read it, but they didn't because they are smart enough not to get a blog. </p>
<p>Also, I pick a rolemodel. Someone my age that I can see everyday that I want to be more like. I don't know if this sounds pathetic, but I tell myself "What would so-and-so do?". I used to say "WWJD" but I don't know what Jesus would do at school. And its helped a bit.</p>
<p>Ugh. I swear I waste too much time on xanga/myspace too. ESPECIALLY MYSPACE.</p>
<p>Myspace is pure evil incarnate. =[ Actually I even went as far as to change my subtitle to: "I only check this crap on Saturdays" and then sadly, right under it, it says "Last login: Sunday, 9/18/05" D=</p>
<p>One way that really helped me get through college & law school was tutoring others. I know it sounds altruistic & "noble," but actually it was just how things worked out. Somehow folks would gravitate toward me & I would end up explaining things to them, which would help me review them so I could explain. It turned out to be a "win win" situation & I made some nice friends that way.</p>
<p>I tried study groups, which generally didn't work too well for me, unless it was one where they really needed me to explain things & help them study. Those worked fine for me. I also was never able to study in a library because it was too quiet. My niece (a lawe student) & her friends love studying at Barnes & Noble (in their coffee shop), Starbucks, & similar places. I always ended up studying lying down on my stomach on my bed in my dorm room & later, while sitting at my desk in my apartment. </p>
<p>(Sleep hygiene studies do NOT recommend folks studying on their beds, beds are ONLY supposed to be associated with sleep, but I never had any trouble falling & staying asleep & never fell asleep while studying.)</p>