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5 minimalist principles to help you study
Right now, I’m in the midst of exams, so you could say they’re on my mind. I thought I’d share some ways minimalism helps me make studying easier. 1. Get rid of the unnecessary. Use the 80/20 rule as a guideline: probably only about 80% in the syllabus will actually come up in the exam. [...]
5 tips to create and maintain a minimalist desk
Despite many aspects of university education becoming digitalised, students are still not completely free of paper. And it will probably be a long time before we are completely done with it, if ever. Paper – worksheets, assignments, data, sources, references, extracts, forms and letters obtained from professors, coursemates, friends and our own research – can [...]
5 Ways to Reclaim Ten Minutes a Day
As a student, there is no such thing as ‘free time’. The time you think is ‘free’ – you could actually be using to do something else that is productive, such as finding a book on the course reading list, writing up notes or reviewing the last lecture. Every minute we are encouraged to cram [...]
The Recipe for Student Success – Ingredient Four : A Curious Mind
“Cogito Ergo Sum” – “I think, therefore I am”. – Rene Descartes When it came to naming this ingredient, I considered calling it a ‘Great Mind’. But I thought that would imply that one needed to achieve or find ‘great’ things that rocked the world in order to be successful, when the truth is, success [...]
The Recipe for Student Success – Ingredient Two : Perseverance
“By perseverance the snail reached the ark”. – Charles Spurgeon The second ingredient to student success is Perseverance. On the surface, perseverance and passion may seem alike. Perhaps you’ve experienced it before. You quickly develop passion over something, a new hobby, project or interest, and you fervently try to find out as much as you [...]
The Recipe for Student Success – Ingredient One : Real Passion
“If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen for you, to you and because of you.” T. Alan Armstrong There’s no denying that going to college can get [...]
5 Steps to Minimalist Web Surfing
It’s hard to live without the internet if you’re a student. Amongst many things, you probably need it for checking email, receiving updates from societies, arranging meetings with course-mates, keeping in touch with old friends, Skyping your family, getting in touch with your professors, checking out the library catalogue and of course, for research (maybe [...]
A Student’s Guide to a Minimalist Diet in 5 Steps
what is a minimalist’s diet? True to the minimalist mind-set, a MD (Minimalist Diet) is about reducing food down to what is essential. Although I refer to it as a diet here, in this case I mean diet in the case of ‘a way of eating’ or a long-term lifestyle, not a fad diet that [...]
5 Ways to Just Spend Less
For Halloween, a friend of mine spent £30 (about $50) on a costume for one night. I wondered how can you spend so much money for something that has no lasting value? I could literally think of a hundred better ways to spend even half that amount. It made me step back and look at [...]
Keeping a Reading Notebook
One of the most useful things I own is a separate notebook for jotting down things that I find interesting, useful, funny, fascinating, inspiring and many other things that I read in books, novels, or even textbooks. I can’t count how many times I used to finish reading a book, and after a while completely [...]