Studying for classes, is it all work, no play at Stevens? Here are a few hacks from fellow ducks to get through or improve your study routine:
- “Cramming before the test. Everyone says don’t do it, don’t do it, but personally, it works really well for me. It gets all the information in my head right before the test. So I’m answering a question that I just saw 10 minutes ago.” – Oscar McMahan 2/4 Naval Engineer
- “I sit in a different place for every single subject, the living room in my dorm for HASS. For doing math homework, I sit in the library. – Poorva Vakharia 1/4 Computer Science
- “I listen to a specific genre of pop music at like max volume through my headphones to help me study at maximum efficiency.” – Aidan Lindekugel 1/4 Mechanical Engineer
- “Since like fourth grade, if I ever get stuck on something, I just scroll or flip to the very end of the worksheet and start working backwards. For some reason, it feels different, like I’m cheating the system, even though I am just doing the same amount of work as before.” – Jack MacDonnell 1/4 Engineering Undecided
- “Organic Chemistry tutor, and use your textbooks.” – Michael Pasquale 1/4 Quantitative Finance
- “As soon as the lecture ends, if the notes you have are a little scrambled, or there’s a lot to remember, I just make a new page, and I summarize all the important points of the notes. When I do that, when it is time to do homework, I have all the information in one place, and I just understand everything a lot better.” – Stan Daaboul 1/4 Engineering Undecided
- “So my most unhinged or interesting study hack was developed at a young age and is by no means a good thing. I always procrastinated as a kid, and what I discovered is that I worked the best five minutes before class starts. I tend to put things off because I work very effectively on a timer.” – Gabriel Healy 1/4 Mechanical Engineer
- “My study hack is to go study in a random room, a random place you have never studied before, something even uncomfortable, even somewhere where you wouldn’t think you could study, like at a bench in the middle of the city. Being uncomfortable, it’s the thing, in a random place. It’s how you remember everything!” – Adrian Quinones 1/4 Computer Science
- “Literally when I would get desperate or I knew I had really had to get serious, I would play 10-hour Coconut Mall and just lock myself in my room and do work.” – Kailey Supan 1/4 Mechanical Engineer
- “With math specifically, I mess around with Desmos most of the time. Or I search it up on YouTube and I find someone who re-explains it or derives it from a certain equation.” – Oscar De Leon 1/4 Electrical Engineer
- “Most of the time, I just review the content that’s been given, see if there’s any problems that I can work out. I use different softwares quiz me like Quizlet or ChatGPT.” – Liam Farhangi 2/4 Mechanical Engineer
- “Any classroom is free to use if it is not booked. So what I used to do when I was in freshman year, when I was locking in, I went into the basement of the library by myself and took up the classroom for like six hours for my thermo class. I have used up the entire classroom whiteboard.” – Gigi Cannon 2/4 Mechanical Engineer
- “For practice problems, I do more problems and split it into steps for doing the problem. A, to get more problems in and B, because actually knowing how to solve the problem means that everything else falls into place.” – Ethan Krupka 3/4 Mechanical Engineer
I’m definitely looking to try a few of these! Hope you have had a good first few weeks of classes, and good luck on upcoming quizzes. Who knows, maybe one of these study hacks will be your next biggest hit!
