Have you tried attending classes that teach you best way to study, or library classes on how to research?
If taking notes is your problem, yeah, especially those will help. Such as The Cornell System of taking notes, which use columns.
Also, ever heard of RefWorks? Or Endnote...Endnote7, I think? My university offers those programs for free at their libraries, and yours might too, check.
Now there's a thought, though part of the reason I'm so crappy at taking notes is because I'm lazy, and that's just something I have to train myself out of. Maybe I should invest in little color-coded sticky bookmark-things so that I can mark interesting pages and stuff.
Nope, never heard of those. What are they, if I may ask?
I actually haven’t a chance to use either one of these yet, but they help you with putting together your bibliography at the end of your essay as you research. It’s something I learned from those library classes thing.
//I would love to make a more comprehensive list of techniques like these, so please feel free to comment with your own fond memories of "The One You Got Away From."//
8. Take her offer to go 50-50 as to pay for dinner completely, than use her money to tip the waitress generously. This is after practically ignoring her the entire date to maintain his super artistic air of Bored by the WorldTM.
9. Continuously expressing his obsession LOVE for her even after she repeatedly told him that she is not interested, especially emphasizing how much he NEEDS her to complete the hole that is his life. Whines about the fact that no one loves him because he's a loser, and the fact that she rejected him just proved it. Draining hours of her time angsting over the phone about how he's going to kill himself and how much he wants to shoot up the school, implying the whole time if she slams the phone on him it will happen and it will be ALL HER FAULT!
8. Dude, what? He should have at least used that 50% to treat you to ice cream or something afterwards. Did he hit on the waitress too?
9. :::sympathy hug::: While I've never dated someone quite that needy, I know the feeling. "Oh god, if I criticize or refuse him/her in any way, s/he'll cut his/her wrists!" Fucking hostage-takers
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//One thing I've found, though (or, rather, decided--needy people tend to be self-absorbed as well, and thus are not very self-aware) is that they probably don't really need you as much as they would like you to think they do. Rather, if you show a pattern of putting up with their bullshit, they use that sympathy to keep you near. //
Currently, I take too much of a good thing as a damn ringing warning sign. Like roses and promises of eternity, on the first date, or hell within the first month, would have me heading for the hills.
I've learned that History isn't so different from Lit in that just about anything can be an 'important' point, so long as it contributes to your argument/observation/what have you. It really helps to just pick out what interests you most.
And, #5 made me laugh. Hooo boy. Un/fortunately, my worst date ever was a blind date arranged by one of my high school friends, so it really wasn't the guy's fault.
Oh, and I'm in Sacramento right now, but I'll be coming back to S.C. this evening to carve pumpkins and play Crystal Chronicles. I'll give you a call later to clear things up and such.
No, it isn't, not really. The thing is, I have a good memory for general flow, but not for details. If I want to find a particular quote in a novel, I just skim until I find the right part. History books, though, tend to mush things together, so the fact I'm looking for could be in any number of places. And sadly, I was assigned questions for this midterm, and none of them were particularly interesting. I have full control over my term paper topic, though, and I know what I'm going to do, so that should be really interesting.
I know! I just kinda stared at the guy for a few seconds afterwards. If he had joined a Native American tribe, his name would be Missing Point.
Yay! And XXXHolic 6 came out and is now in my possession. 'Tis cute and good and character-developy. I'll bring it and your Bleach over whenever you're ready.
It's OK! You've shown great initiative in developing techniques of your own to woo the ladies with!
Dude, international bad hip-hop. I feel so bad for the good hip-hop artists who have to claim these things as their own. I do not, however, feel bad for the one good country-western singer out there, whoever you are. You deserve it for picking country.
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If taking notes is your problem, yeah, especially those will help. Such as The Cornell System of taking notes, which use columns.
Also, ever heard of RefWorks? Or Endnote...Endnote7, I think? My university offers those programs for free at their libraries, and yours might too, check.
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Nope, never heard of those. What are they, if I may ask?
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RefWorks is a web-based bibliography manager.
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8. Take her offer to go 50-50 as to pay for dinner completely, than use her money to tip the waitress generously. This is after practically ignoring her the entire date to maintain his super artistic air of Bored by the WorldTM.
9. Continuously expressing his obsession LOVE for her even after she repeatedly told him that she is not interested, especially emphasizing how much he NEEDS her to complete the hole that is his life. Whines about the fact that no one loves him because he's a loser, and the fact that she rejected him just proved it. Draining hours of her time angsting over the phone about how he's going to kill himself and how much he wants to shoot up the school, implying the whole time if she slams the phone on him it will happen and it will be ALL HER FAULT!
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9. :::sympathy hug::: While I've never dated someone quite that needy, I know the feeling. "Oh god, if I criticize or refuse him/her in any way, s/he'll cut his/her wrists!" Fucking hostage-takers ( ... )
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Woo, solderini, try The Manipulators Files
Currently, I take too much of a good thing as a damn ringing warning sign. Like roses and promises of eternity, on the first date, or hell within the first month, would have me heading for the hills.
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And, #5 made me laugh. Hooo boy. Un/fortunately, my worst date ever was a blind date arranged by one of my high school friends, so it really wasn't the guy's fault.
Oh, and I'm in Sacramento right now, but I'll be coming back to S.C. this evening to carve pumpkins and play Crystal Chronicles. I'll give you a call later to clear things up and such.
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I know! I just kinda stared at the guy for a few seconds afterwards. If he had joined a Native American tribe, his name would be Missing Point.
Yay! And XXXHolic 6 came out and is now in my possession. 'Tis cute and good and character-developy. I'll bring it and your Bleach over whenever you're ready.
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:::hugs::: You are still fucking awesome.
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Dude, international bad hip-hop. I feel so bad for the good hip-hop artists who have to claim these things as their own. I do not, however, feel bad for the one good country-western singer out there, whoever you are. You deserve it for picking country.
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