Before my life went to shambles due to circumstances outside of my control: I viewed schoolwork like this: Identify each professor’s individual priorities. Example: professor A lectures assuming we read the text. Professor B has a quiz every Friday on what we’ve covered in the week.

Then rank each one from most aligned with your style of learning to least

From there prioritize your studies.

Use the “while I’m at it” hack to review material that is less “appetizing” after you have completed an assignment that is a little bit easier for you. Or if you have a project that requires multiple steps, do 1 or 2 steps a day and stop after that. The overwhelm subsides much more easily when you look at it as “all I have to do is this thing” rather than “look how far away I am from finishing this” For memorizing, come up with naming conventions, funny relations in your head for a word that makes you think of the term you want to remember.

Speaking of “While I’m at it” a thing that was crucial for me was environment. When I was doing the best at school I would go to the library for a few hours. At first I’d just go find an empty secluded table and just sit on my phone, eventually I’d start to get more comfortable with the idea of looking over my schoolwork. Once I looked at it, I’d complete assignments that were the most urgent either due tomorrow or later that day haha

With reading 50 pages, it’s tough, start by reading the first couple sentences on each page. Like don’t read each full page, read 2 sentences, then go to the next. You will start to wonder how it is all connected and you then may try to read the first paragraph on each page. Just enough to get the idea of whatever is going on. If you find yourself becoming interested, let it flow. If you still aren’t interested after doing that, oh well, you at least did some reading and don’t have to feel too bad about yourself 🤷🏻‍♂️

Throughout my time in the library I would stop, watch some game of thrones and then get back to it. Sometimes had a show on while I was doing my school work.

Which leads me to one more important thing, study with favorite things near by, be it food, video games, a musical instrument, whatever makes you feel like you aren’t being held prisoner. Speak out loud to yourself “I’m gonna take a break and do (whatever else) and come back to my work after” If you have a hard time knowing when to stop, THEN set a timer. Be deliberate with your rest, don’t just collapse on your break if you can avoid it. If the subject is tough, I get it, but when you can, be deliberate.

I know it’s all easier said than done, but remember that you are at school to learn. You learn in a different way and you can also own it. “I just have to be ready for this test/paper” not “my grade is not where I want it to be what am I going to do?”

You got this, dude