randomosity

The tent­at­ive title for post this was how to get ahead by really try­ing, but I thought this might actu­ally sounds a little too preachy. Without mak­ing this too much of a habit (steal­ing from another’s hard work), Dustin Wax has com­piled a great set of sug­ges­tions on how to ‘Make this your best Semester Yet’. I pre­vi­ously noted his excel­lent art­icle on how to put a wiki to per­sonal use and he has taken some time to assemble a set of thought­ful and power­ful remind­ers on how to tackle the semester.
I draw par­tic­u­lar atten­tion to his sug­ges­tions to ‘know your pro­fessor’ and ‘speak up’. These are oft over­looked aspects of the learn­ing envir­on­ment, but cru­cial ones. This list reminds us all (I have a stu­dent hat on myself as well as TA) that your edu­ca­tion calls for strategy and oper­ates at a vari­ety of levels. Ones that I sure which someone high­lighted for me at the out­set, as opposed to hav­ing dis­cover on my own. Even if only a couple of these remind or instruct, they can make a huge dif­fer­ence on your effect­ive­ness this semester.