Name: How to Study and Do Homework in a Time Crunch - College Info Geek
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The great American writer
  Mark Twain once said,

Adverbs of degree

what may be done the day
 after tomorrow just as well."

sometimes we find ourselves
  chugging concentrated coffee

at two AM in a valiant
 attempt to stay up

and finish a project
that's due in six hours.

As productive as I'd
  like to think I am,

Now we're gonna look at
some specific concepts

related to planning and
willpower in a minute,

but first I wanna talk
   about the foundation here,

I think your location
is incredibly important

and personally I like
 to pick my locations

I tend to favor
   coffeeshops and libraries,

in fact I still go to my
  university library at times

where the people around
me are also working,

Also close proximity
 to caffeine does help.

The most important part of
  location selection, though,

When you're working
  under a time crunch,

it's likely you're gonna be
  working late into the night,

that's as far away from
your bed as possible.

go study at the bottom
 of the Mariana Trench,

don't worry about the lack of
 oxygen, that's not a big deal.

the more you're gonna
 start rationalizing

and the more you're
  gonna start deciding

So, just make sure you
 pick a study location

where it would be more
 effort to go to bed

than it would be to just
finish your project.

Now with that piece of
business taken care of,

it's a good idea to
 look at your workload

and break it down into
 individual components,

to figure out which ones deserve
the bulk of your attention.

and what is urgent
 is seldom important."

In the book The Seven Habits
  of Highly Effective People,

Stephen Covey popularized the
 Eisenhower Decision Matrix,

Within that matrix,
 tasks are categorized

based on their importance
   and their urgency,

and that matrix is used in a
lot of time management systems,

but when you're studying
under a time crunch,

Because of that, the main
factor you should be focusing on

is importance, and to
that end we're gonna use

which is called the
 Impact/Effort matrix.

based on their impact to the
overall success of the project,

and the effort that it's
 gonna take to implement them.

one of my final projects
was to build a web app,

and my idea was to build
  something I called AMpanic,

it was an app where
  you'd have to log in

otherwise it would send
an embarrassing email

This app idea was
 actually the precursor

into the individual
   sections I needed to code,

the code that ran the scheduling
and email delivery systems,

those things took a
lot of effort to build,

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