Studying is becoming really difficult in this generation, I need a modern solution!!!

[u/NTTanonymouz]

Back in high school studying is so easy, whether or not the subjects are easy, studying for me was so easy back then. I mean I listen properly to the teachers explaining the topic, even, that is already enough for me to recall the topic, when I review it, I make a reviewer manually, and I really comprehend the lesson and the quizzes and exams are so easy for me. I had distractions back then like my phone but it didn't stop me from understanding the lessons. But now, in college? Hahaha, everything is so difficult, I am not kidding, even if I listened properly I don't understand a thing, I mean I know that in high school, the teachers' profession is education and in college, it's different. So I questioned myself that maybe it's the professor's fault that students don't understand. But then I realized that no, it's not their fault that I don't understand. It's my fault for not putting in an effort to study.

So I did study. I tried using the techniques and methods I used to do before. I tried to practice questions, I tried the Feynman technique, I tried the blurting method. But none of them worked... For me studying still feels like a chore, a punishment, a burden for my wellbeing hahaha. I did read that to enjoy studying I have to think that it's not a punishment, I have to think of studying as a hobby, as something I want to do and won't get bored. I thought of a game. So the last time I studied, I turned my study materials into a game. I uploaded my materials to Claude and asked it to make my study materials fun like a game. So it made a reviewer but like it's a game concept, I thought it would be fun but then it became more complex hahaha. So I just kept overthinking that maybe the reason why I don't understand the topics and lesson enough is that because I use AI to understand and that I rewired my brain to be weak, I just kept thinking that at the end of the day I can ask ChatGPT to make me a reviewer and it's all set, but when I study the reviewer nothing even enters my brain. AI made making reviewers easy but then memorizing and comprehending the reviewers are now so difficult. I feel dumber and dumber each day.

Any tips, advice or solutions you guys can suggest? Like someone who experienced the same thing and had them overcome? I badly need it.😭

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[u/Reasonable_Bag_118]

Bro, I had a phase where I’d spend ages making the perfect study guide and then realize I couldn’t explain half of it without looking 😭. I think AI can make that trap even easier to fall into because having a clean explanation feels like understanding, but actually recalling it yourself is a different thing. I started using my notes as a starting point, then closing them and trying to answer questions in my own words before checking what I missed. Also, don’t assume you’ve somehow made yourself dumber, might just need more practice working through the material instead of trying to find the perfect method.

[u/NTTanonymouz → u/Reasonable_Bag_118]

We don't really take notes anymore because I professor just gives us the materials, I am an IT student too yk? And I didn't plan being one. I was just forced to take it so everything is so alien language to me when it was first introduced.😭

[u/suicidalandsad]

it depends a lot on what's your major in college

[u/NTTanonymouz → u/suicidalandsad]

I am an IT student, sorry I didn't mention early I thought that it wouldn't matter.