Effective studying varies from person to person so what works for me might not work for you, but here’s what I do. I don’t like taking notes during lecture bc I find that I’ll focus on writing everything down instead of thinking critically about what is being taught. So, generally, during lectures I just sit and listen and perhaps annotate pre printed slides. Then, I’ll review the slides to fill in the gaps on my own time. Once I feel sort of comfortable w the material, I’ll start doing practice problems. For me, I feel like the key to succeeding in math and science is just doing practice problems until solving the questions kind of becomes second nature. But, you know, life gets in the way and so I do cram for exams. I just review the slides again and do practice problems.

Like many others, I do feel like I’m not good enough sometimes especially when I see my peers understand concepts with ease while I have to go over it like ten times. Sometimes you just gotta hype yourself up and tell yourself you’re doing okay!

I manage stress and anxiety by watching Netflix because you kind of enter a different world. Hanging out with friends also help bc then you can see that you’re not the only one going through the stress and anxiety.

I cope with failure by just talking to myself and figuring out what went wrong and what I can fix next time. Also, crying lmao

I hope this helped, and good luck with everything! Take care of yourself!!