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还记得上期谈到的一些学习方法和学习习惯吗？你有没有尝试看看这些对你的学习生活是否有所帮助吗？如果你发现这些提示对你的学习有所帮助的话，不妨继续实践。
Up the ante
多学一小时
Studying takes time, especially when it’s part of preparing for an intense Biochem test or reading that 200-page history assignment. Most college students don’t allocate enough time to studying. So, this year, decide to put additional hours into work at home. Rule of Thumb:1 hour of class, 1- 1 ½ hour of studying. Extra for tests. The average college student spends 11-13 hours a week studying. The average college expects 25-30.
学习是件耗费时间的事情，特别是为生物化学这样的课程考试做准备，或者完成读一本200多页的历史书这样的功课的时候。然而，大多数大学生没能给自己的生活分配足够的时间去学习。所以，今年开始，多花几个小时在家里乖乖学习吧。学习的黄金定律是：“课堂一小时，课后1-1.5小时，考试额外加”。虽然事实上，美国大学生平均一周花费11-13个小时学习，但是正常时间花费值却应该在一周25-30小时。学生学生，当然应该以学习为主。
Never blow off two days in a row.
千万别连续放空
During the semester, you need to be engaged in studying on a pretty constant basis. Most professors assign readings for each class, not to mention regularly giving quizzes and tests, and assigning papers and projects. What this means in practice is that the powers-that-be are assuming that you’ll never take off two days in a row from your studying. Look, we know this is a daunting thought to those of you who – last year – thought that studying was a twice a week (or, gasp, only on weekends) affair. But this year – your best studying year ever!
学期中你基本需要一直连续学习，想想大多教授布置的阅读性质的功课和那些随堂联系和测试，跟别提需要提交的写作作业和项目。这些实际上意味着你不可能有喘气连休数日的机会。我也知道，这消息听起来真是令人扫兴。可能你刚刚还幻想可不可以放松一周，等到周末再赶工，但是我劝你不要尝试，因为你也想拥有奋发向上的一年，是吧？
Avoid just-in-time studying.
避免“临时抱佛脚”
Sometimes you’re assigned a longer-term project: a term- or research paper, a boatload of problems to do, or a semester-long study or project. Make sure to divide up the tasks needed to do the task and spread them out evenly over the available time; then be sure, as the weeks go by, to meet these self-imposed deadlines. It’s easy for these activities not to be on your radar screen when they’re due only at the end of April. But as the clock winds down , they’ll loom larger and larger – and your study time will become tenser and tenser.
有时你可能会参加长期研究或项目，甚至可能持续整个学期，例如一项调查研究，一大堆问题等着解决。这时记得将这个研究或者项目分解分解成小任务，制定每项任务的时间。然后，每周检查自我制定计划的完成情况。这些活动一直在你的掌控之中较之截止时间来临时“临时抱佛脚”突击完成会容易得多。因为当时间大限将至的时候，你会发现问题变得比想象中复杂，而你则会变得越来越紧张。
Size up the study groups.
扩大学习小组
Many students find study groups to be an effective and pleasant way to study. Being in a study group can impel you to study – something you might not do if left to your own devices – and members of your group might be able to help you with material you’re having trouble understanding. But be sure to assess if your study group is really working for you. If you’re spending the whole time socializing rather than studying – well then, have fun, but don’t consider this to be part of your study time. And reconsider the value of your study group if you have to spend all your time helping your study partners get up to speed or if you’re doing all the work and your study partners are free-loading off your efforts. Charity is one thing, studying another.
许多学生都认为学习小组是高效学习和快乐学习的途径之一。在学习小组的活动里可以迫使自己学习，特别是那些如果只有自己绝对不会主动学习的内容。学习小组里总有人可以帮助你解释那些你自己看不懂理解不上去的材料。如果你真的意识到了学习小组对你的帮助，记得积极参加吧。但是如果你在学习小组光顾着交际而不是学习，虽然很有趣，但是就别把这个时间算作是你的学习时间了。当然如果在学习小组里，你一直是帮助别人的角色，而没人能帮助你，也要重新考虑一下这个学习小组对你的价值。虽然你无私的帮助会被感谢，但是毕竟慈善是慈善，学习是学习。
Get help when you need it.
不耻下问
Sometimes, despite your best efforts, your study time turns into disaster time. You can’t do the assigned problems, understand the reading or grasp the point of the assignment. If this happens, don’t just bang your head against the wall. Contact your TA or professor (office hours are always on the syllabus and/or the assignment sheets). They won’t know that you don’t understand unless you tell them, and they want you to learn the stuff they’re asking you to study. A few questions answered and you could have learned a lot, and saved a lot of time to boot. What’s not to like about that?
其实确切的说，是需要帮助的时候就大胆去问吧。有些时候，虽然你很努力很用功，但是你学习的时间却还是徒劳的。你会遇到你自己解决不了的问题，你会遇到你读不懂的文章，你会遇到你理解不上去的知识点。这时，千万别一心想用脑袋撞墙解决，不如联系下你的助教或者教授。在教学大纲或者功课簿上总能找到教授的办公答疑时间和地点。如果你不说别人永远不会知道你不理解这些知识，而且教授们可都是一心想让你学会知识的。一些问题解决了，你可能在他们的讲解中学到更多的知识。更关键的是，这为你节省了大量时间去学习、理解得更好。所以，为什么不呢？
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