Sunday, April 26, 2015

#6 The lesser known aspect of your degree: Self-education


What many students do not realise during their time at university is that it’s what you do outside (or during your breaks between lectures etc) of university that will usually get you further with your degree. However, this blog is about hacks you can do at uni.
One of the highest returning investments you can make at uni is an investment into your own knowledge of a particular interest of yours. Reading books and articles that are relevant to your degree but not directly related, during your lecture and prac breaks, benefits you more than you think.
Those hidden benefits include:
a)  That new-found knowledge will provide you with more information you can use within your assignments, giving you an advantage over your peers because you have included a piece of information that not many (or no one) would have thought about.
b)  It forms a new way of thinking of things and teaches you to remove boundaries that limit your imagination from thinking of bigger and better ideas.
Other ways you can teach yourself things that are relevant to you and your degree are by helping your friends and other students in your class with their assignments. This also provides you with the number one way to study!
- Aaron S

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