Tag Archives: College Classes

How to Get the Most Out of Your Classes

How to Get the Most Out of Your Classes // eyeliner wings & pretty things

So this isn’t necessarily about Getting Straight A’s, it’s more about actually gaining something of value. Grades are important but it’s also important to get the most out of your classes, especially because they’re most likely expensive as hell. They also take up a huge chunk of time in your life and if you’re going to be spending time and money, you definitely want to be adding something valuable to your life!

They also take up a huge chunk of time in your life and if you’re going to be spending time and money, you definitely want to be adding something valuable to your life! Sometimes the classes you predict will be the most irrelevant and asinine end up being the classes that help better your life or help you gain knowledge you can use in the future. For me, the class I thought would be a waste of my life was Community Psychology and it ended up shifting my perspective, teaching me lessons that I can apply to real life and I even ended up using it as inspiration for some blogs and articles!

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The Ultimate Guide to Choosing Classes in College

The Ultimate Guide to Choosing Classes in College // eyeliner wings & pretty things

With each new semester comes great responsibility. Like, you’re choosing your fate for the next semester and you’re making sure you’re on track to graduate on time while also attempting to dodge Friday classes, morning classes and possibly even night classes. Honestly, choosing classes in college is like playing a video game except a little bit more crying and a lot more sighing.

Anyway, now that you’re sufficiently concerned, here is a huge and helpful guide to registering for and choosing classes in college.

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The Ultimate Guide to Planning & Note Taking in College

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The Ultimate Guide to Planning & Note Taking in College / ew & pt

In the past I have done a Guide To Staying Organized In College post, that is true, but this post is more centered around the paper parts of that, if that makes sense. This whole post focuses on a ton of tips for planning and note taking in college.

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How Not To Be An Asshole: College Class Edition

How Not To Be An Asshole: College Class Edition - ew & pt

After writing 12 Ways To Be Less of an Asshole, I realized just how much the whole trying to be less of a jerk thing could extend beyond life in general and into the smaller facets of life. That was a confusing sentence but basically I thought it might be a nice series.

Perhaps you don’t consider yourself to be an asshole and maybe you aren’t one, but there are definitely habits you (and me, definitely me) can take on or end to be less of an asshole in college classes. Basically here are some ways to make your college classroom a better place. If you want to be as minimally annoying as possible to your professor and fellow classmates, these are some great tips to follow.  Note that this is definitely based on perception and a fairly loose definition of the term “asshole.”

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