2. Use an egg timer. I've found that setting the timer at 90min and then doing what you're supposed to do increases you focus multifold. If you get ideas or realise that you have to do something, jot it down on post-it notes and stick them to the wall. During the time, nothing else is allowed to happen, no facebooking or eating. You gotta pay attention to when you drift away. After the 90min you have 15-30min off (with the egg timer) were you do something you really want to do, juggling or reading something you really want to read. You can get tons done in this way, instead of the steady state 8hours in the "grey zone" way.
3. Do notes when you study. It's way harder, annoying and you just can't be asked. But the sooner you realise that if you do notes you have to make sense of what you read and you can at anytime just go back and have a quick look through what you have done, life becomes so much easier. It's great because you have to use another part of your brain. Best way for me is to read and do notes, then quiz myself without any notes. Then in the evening you can look through your notes in just 5 min.
4. Put aside 10min for every unit every evening and review what you've done during that day.
(I have just started doing this and I think it's great)
Seriously, if you're on top of your stuff, Uni is so much easier and so much more fun. Hahaha it's funny but it takes some work in the beginning to get there.
