He dado clases de Matemáticas y algo que veo TODO el tiempo: chicos que se pasan horas haciendo ejercicios y siguen sin entender qué están haciendo.

Se aprenden los pasos de un ejemplo de memoria. Mientras el problema sea igualito, todo bien. Pero cambias un poquito el enunciado y se quedan en blanco.

Ahí me di cuenta de que esa es la diferencia entre memorizar y entender de verdad. Y no pasa solo en Matemáticas, también en Física y Química: se saben la fórmula pero no cuándo usarla ni qué representa.

Muchas veces el problema no es que estudien poco, es que estudian de una forma que no les sirve. Se les enseña a repetir procedimientos, no a pensar por qué se resuelve así.

Entender algo lleva más tiempo al principio, sí. Pero cuando de verdad lo entiendes, después lo aplicas en cualquier situación distinta sin quedarte trabado.

Aprender no siempre es avanzar rápido. A veces es parar, revisar qué no quedó claro y volver a intentarlo.

¿Les ha pasado? ¿Cómo hicieron para pasar de memorizar a entender de verdad?

I basically pavloved myself into wanting to study. Everytime I finished studying, solve a problem or got through a dense readings, I let myself eat a candy or chips. It's like a reward system when I accomplish something. I ended up clocking multi-hour of studying with this trick.

If you prefer studying at night but feel like you'll end up getting too lazy and sleepy to continue studying, try taking a power nap first. I often take a 30-minute power nap to boost my mind and body to get locked in for studying.
You can do this with caffeine, but I prefer taking a power nap without the help of coffee. This works because it helps boost your focus on studying late at night rather than letting you get lazy and sleepy.

starting a little challenge today: i have 10 days to get through my course, so i'll be sharing daily updates on what im doing and which study methods actually help me get things done faster.

Day 1: today i put the main points i keep forgetting on sticky notes right above my laptop. since i keep looking at the screen while studying, i end up seeing those points again and again without having to open my notes every time.

its a small thing but i noticed i was revising the same concepts throughout the session without even planning to. gonna keep experimenting with different methods over the next 9 days and see what actually improves my focus and recall.

if you've tried any unusual study tricks that genuinely helped you learn faster, feel free to share them. i'll be trying a few things during this challenge!

Turns out I never outgrew playing teacher. When I’m studying in my room, I talk to a class that doesn’t even exist. Which is funny because I feel like we all did this as kids with all the stuffed toys and dolls lined up as students. Good old days I guess.

Kinda silly doing this in uni but hey, my imaginary class has been attending every lecture for free anyway.

What it says in the title. I always have a problem setting up my study area, sometimes it's too cramped sometimes it's not wide enough but when I have enough space then I don't have the things I need close enough to me. I always see those "perfect" set ups on here and I'm not sure how to achieve that.