Save More Time for Your Side Projects: Episode 1 – The Detective in Class

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I think by now it can be clear what we try to emphasize here at risefromCollege: success for college students isn't just about earning your certificate.

Every day you have to know things (#moreExposure) that you didn't know so as to change your perspective—to be different from the common thinking ways of college students. Only through this way can you see opportunities where most haven't seen, or you can see how you can twist things creatively so as to create your own opportunities.

This alone is not enough to avoid opportunities slipping between your fingers; you have to develop essential skills (#buildUpSkills) which can help you hold onto them strongly, but also to knock down any obstacle that may come your way. When you have these, we believe that if you have the courage to #TryOutThings one day, you will hit the jackpot of success.

Still doing all these will consume your time. "Good grades" or maybe to be more specific, getting the knowledge out from your classes is also the means for creating valuable skills which can help you in your endeavor. Indeed, that is one of the main reasons you are in college—to get educated.

As we have talked about this in the last post, you need to use less time studying so as to invest in your future—by doing other side projects or preparing for your career after graduation (I know it sounds counterintuitive, but trust me—it works).

With the condition of using less time but still having high performance in your studies, this is where great studying techniques (or study hacks as we call them) are highly needed. And we plan to provide these study hacks to you in a series of posts which you will get here at risefromCollege.

Episode 1: The Detective in Class

Today, as the first episode of this series, we will talk about the first important step in learning something new: to..