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Series Code: TAH
Program Code: TAH000103
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00:31 Hello, I'm Kathy Matthews and this is Thinking About Home.
00:35 And I'm glad you've joined us again. 00:37 You know there's been so many times that I thought 00:39 that I would love to have my family on here. 00:41 And today I have the privilege of having Sarah, 00:43 our oldest daughter on with us. 00:45 Sarah, thank you for being here. 00:47 Thank you for letting me, mom. 00:49 We have been talking about study skills, 00:53 because you're in college now. 00:54 And Sarah is a student at Weimar College in California. 00:57 And the other day we were discussing the importance 01:01 of her making it though the work study, 01:04 and the hectic schedule that she has in class time 01:09 and the units that she's taking 01:10 and its been pretty overpowering 01:12 and... There's been times that we wondered 01:14 how in the world she's done it. 01:15 So, we thought that it would be very important 01:19 that others may be able to learn 01:21 some of the things that she's learned. 01:22 So she's gonna show us and help us to understand 01:25 some of the student study skills that she's developed. 01:28 And I think that you find them a blessing to you 01:31 if you're a student and maybe in your home, 01:35 if you're a younger student as well, 01:36 you might be able to apply some of these things. 01:38 But for the college student especially. 01:40 Yes, college or even boarding academy. 01:43 Particularly in a boarding environment, 01:46 because it contains so many other factors 01:50 than if you're just going to school during the daytime 01:52 and coming home to, you know, of relaxing home environment 01:56 or whatever your normal home duties are. 01:58 When you're at a boarding environment 02:00 you have so many other responsibilities, 02:03 so many other things you have go to 02:04 and people around all the time. 02:06 It's not just, you know where you can recluse home 02:10 to just your family in your own room 02:13 and without other bunch of other people around 02:15 always demanding your attention. Right. 02:16 did you, did you learn some of these skills 02:18 at home? Did you extend it out into the.. 02:22 Yes, yes, all these principles that I've learned, 02:24 that I put down on paper or on graphics for this program. 02:30 I got the foundations for them at home, 02:31 the foundation of the principles, 02:33 the ideas, the basic reasons why. 02:38 And but I didn't fully develop them 02:40 and put them into my own, my own life 02:44 until I went away to boarding academy. 02:46 And that was where I start feeling out the differences 02:50 and trying to drive myself to become a person 02:55 with good study habits, 02:56 a person that could get everything done 02:57 that I needed to get done. 02:59 At least when it was humanly possible. 03:01 And then I noticed that in my own life 03:03 that they've really become very personal 03:06 to me in college, 03:07 because college is very different from academy. 03:11 In some ways you have more time and in some ways 03:13 it seems you're so much more busy. Right. 03:15 And it just depends on which factors are playing there, 03:20 and I know, I know I have, I have a heavier academic load 03:23 in college than I did in academy. Right. 03:26 And there's been times when I've had other people 03:27 come and ask me, how do you keep up 03:29 with the academic load that you're taking.Yes. 03:32 And still work half time, 20 hours a week or more, 03:36 and still get all your other responsibilities done. 03:37 And not start failing your classes 03:40 and not start just pointing average grades because, 03:44 although some people do say, 03:46 you know people say that grades 03:48 are only the teacher's opinion and they don't really reflect 03:52 the students' performance and everything. 03:53 The grades aren't important to me, 03:54 because when someone is evaluating my performance 03:57 in an academic environment, 03:58 that's what they're going to look at. Right. 04:00 And they're not going to look at well, 04:02 how was the student feeling when he took this test. Right. 04:05 They're going to say this is how this student did. 04:08 And this was the basic trend of the student's academics. 04:10 Right, unfortunately that's what we have to go by, 04:12 since that's the kind of world we're in. 04:14 Right, in other countries, 04:16 under a different academic standard, 04:17 different levels of different forms of teaching, 04:20 it maybe different. But at least from America 04:22 and most of the first world Europe and so on. 04:25 Grades are very important, in a, 04:28 particularly a college environment. 04:30 And we've been talking on some programs about 04:33 the motivation of learning and the best way 04:36 is the natural way and one of the areas 04:39 that we had discovered is it's sometimes when we learn, 04:44 we learn best when it has been fun, when it's been, 04:47 the emotion has been involved and has been enjoyable. 04:49 That's true, that's true. 04:51 But when you get down to the nitty-gritty 04:53 also and you can't, because we're not in a perfect world 04:56 where it's always enjoyable and you get right down 04:58 to the difficulties of determination. 05:02 Then you have to learn some skills and in studying. 05:07 It comes down to self discipline. Yes. 05:09 You know that making learning fun is important 05:13 especially with younger children, 05:15 when they're learning the importance of learning, 05:17 when they're first discovery that education is important. 05:21 And it is essential to make it something that is enjoyable, 05:26 but as you get older, as you start finishing high school 05:29 and even maybe for some people depending on your school, 05:32 earlier than the late high school years. 05:34 But particularly in a college environment, 05:36 learning is not always fun, 05:38 a lot of times it's a lot of hard work, 05:40 there will be subjects you hate, 05:41 there will be homework that you do not want to do. 05:44 And there will be times when you have to study 05:46 for hours to grasp a concept that does not 05:48 make sense to you, and it's not fun, 05:50 but you have to do it. 05:51 Because that's what is going to make 05:55 or break your education. 05:56 You only have to do it if you want 05:57 your grades to stay up there. 06:00 Well, yes, but this is assuming, that you.. 06:03 Yes, that you wanna do your best. 06:04 Desiring to do your best to get decent grades 06:07 and I'm not saying that everyone needs to get A 06:09 to do their best, but or that an A is everyone's best. 06:13 But in order to do your best whatever that is for you, 06:16 you need to be looking at what will, 06:21 what factors will help you 06:23 become a well balanced, happy, 06:28 self disciplined person with good study skills. 06:31 Right. Because you can have an extremely intelligent student 06:35 that has terrible study skills 06:37 that will flunk an easy class. 06:40 And you could and not so bright student 06:42 that may even be academically challenged. 06:44 May have a learning disorder, 06:45 but if they know how to study, 06:47 and they know how to apply themselves, 06:49 they know what little things that so many others 06:52 leave overlooked. Yes. 06:54 They can make a better grade than the brilliant student 06:57 that doesn't apply themselves. Right. 06:59 So a lot of it is just looking for tiny things 07:01 that make a big difference. 07:02 Okay, so let's begin. All right. 07:04 What is it that you want to stat with? 07:05 What do you think is this thing, 07:07 the very first important thing, 07:10 principle which you would like to share with us. 07:11 But before we start that, I'd just like to suggest 07:14 to the audience that if you, 07:16 if you're a parent that would like to share this 07:18 with your children or your college student, 07:20 academy student, and you wanna get a pen 07:22 and a piece of paper to write these down, 07:24 we're gonna have some basic, very basic principles 07:28 that are gonna be coming up on the screen 07:29 that will help you, if you wanna write these down, 07:32 make a list, see if you can apply 07:33 any of these into your own life, 07:35 maybe you've overlooked one of these. 07:36 Maybe you've already applied them 07:38 and you just wanna list them for yourself. 07:40 If you wanna do that, 07:42 something that applies to our first, 07:44 our first principle is a text in Psalms 5 verse 3. 07:47 And I really like to share that you today. 07:52 Psalms 5 verse 3 says, 07:53 " My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, 07:55 O LORD, in the morning will I direct my prayer 07:58 unto thee, and will look up." Amen. 08:01 Now I think that this must being something 08:03 it's important about the morning. 08:04 I think so. I think, and if you know 08:07 is we also have an example of Jesus 08:09 rising early in the day. 08:11 He just always spend time with his Father in prayer 08:13 and in study. Particularly out in nature, 08:16 but it was always early in the morning, it's mentioned. 08:19 And I think that it's important to get up early. 08:23 And I know that a lot of people are cultured, 08:26 conditioned, not to be morning people. 08:28 Some people are more naturally morning people, 08:30 and you have to figure that out for yourself. 08:33 But within reason I think it's important to rise early 08:37 and never to sacrifice your personal time with God, 08:39 because this sets the tone for your entire day. 08:42 So this is one of the points, get up early. 08:44 This is the first point, get up early 08:46 and never sacrifice your personal time with God. 08:49 Now this ties right into our second principle. Okay. 08:52 And that is always eat breakfast and lunch. 08:56 Always? As best you can. 08:59 As best as possible. I try to make it a habit. 09:01 I will admit that there's times when I even don't get 09:03 all the meals I need too. 09:05 But nutrition affects your learning habits, 09:08 these you need to eat well and have good balanced meals, 09:11 because if your brain is not well fed 09:15 it cannot function properly. Right. 09:18 Now there's always the illustration 09:22 I like to use this, with you don't anywhere in your car 09:27 with an empty gas tank. 09:29 Before you go on a trip, before you start the day 09:32 you know that you need to have gas in your car. 09:34 That will be a preparation. 09:36 And, yes the preparation, but my point is in order 09:39 to have a clear thinking brain for the day, 09:42 you need to have it fed in the morning. 09:45 And when I emphasize breakfast and lunch 09:50 it's for a reason, I'll get on to that 09:53 later as far as particularly those two meals. Right. 09:57 But breakfast is very important and if you're 10:00 getting up early you will want to eat breakfast. Right. 10:03 Because if you get up really early and you wait 10:05 all the way till the middle of the day for lunch 10:07 you're gonna be starving and your brain 10:08 is not gonna be functioning right, 10:10 because you're gonna be thinking food, 10:11 food, where is the food? Food, food. 10:13 And you know I got to eat. 10:14 Well, you know that's physical food, 10:15 but did you put in there anything about the spiritual? 10:18 Well, yes, our first principle was get up early 10:19 to have your personal time with God. 10:21 Right, so left with that purpose. 10:22 So and then but, you know, 10:23 after you fed your spiritual life 10:26 you also need to feed your physical body. Right. 10:28 Now, our third principle is to use your 10:31 spare time efficiently. Now most people think nothing, 10:37 this is what I've observed, especially those young adults 10:40 in a college environment think nothing 10:42 of wasting five minutes. Right. 10:44 It's just five minutes, 10:45 I can't sit down and write a paper. 10:46 I can't concentrate long enough to get homework done, 10:48 and that's true. I don't know anyone that can sit down 10:52 on a partially written paper and actually add 10:54 something worth while to it, that they're gonna wanna 10:57 keep when they go back and edit it in five minutes. Right. 11:01 I can't do that. Not too many that focussed. 11:02 Well, it's hard to get your thoughts rolling 11:06 and to pull everything together 11:08 and start thinking coherently as far as that is concerned 11:13 within just five minutes or six or eight or ten. 11:15 But you think five minutes makes a difference. 11:17 But five minutes will make a big difference 11:19 if you learn to use it to get the other things done 11:23 that will keep you from writing that paper later 11:25 when you have a chunk of time. What are the other things? 11:27 Now you can have in a college environment, 11:29 you can have laundry, you can have room, 11:33 your room needs to be picked up, cleaned up. 11:36 Make you bad, tidy things, 11:39 fold your clothes. 11:41 You know, There are a million little tiny things. 11:46 You know, organize, make a list for the day. 11:49 You know jot down your thoughts about something else, 11:52 memorize a Bible verse, something. 11:55 There is any, there is any number of things 11:57 that you can do in five minutes and it's amazing 12:01 if you concentrate how much you can accomplish 12:04 in just five minutes. 12:05 So the idea is don't waste time, right. 12:08 Exactly, exactly do not waste 12:10 even the small amounts of time. 12:12 Even the ones that don't occur you to be important. 12:14 King Solomon is called the wisest man in the world, 12:19 in world's history I suppose. 12:21 And he has said in Proverbs 6:6, Go to the ant, 12:24 thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:" 12:27 And he goes on in the following few verses to talk 12:29 about how they don't have a ruler, 12:31 they don't have an overseer, 12:32 now that's that is the picture of a college student. 12:35 Especially a boarding student, you know there's authorities, 12:38 there's deans and so on. Right. 12:39 But you don't have your parents right there saying, 12:41 now you need to go and do this, 12:43 and now you need to go and do that. 12:45 Come on, Johnny, let's go do this. 12:46 I should have been learned long before. 12:48 Exactly, so this is why you want to apply 12:51 this into your own life now. Right. 12:53 Okay, the fourth principle, study your teacher. 12:59 Why is that so important do you think? 13:01 Because so many students 13:03 don't realize how much difference it can make 13:08 if you learn to see the subtle differences 13:14 in different teachers, methods of getting 13:16 their information across. 13:18 Now there is different ways that different teachers 13:22 stress different things, there is different ways 13:24 different teachers give assignments. 13:26 Different teachers grade on different things. 13:28 Example, okay, I've had teachers that grade 13:33 on class participation, they grade on your behavior 13:37 in class as well as your assignments 13:40 and your discussion and so on. 13:42 And I know one teacher that if there is she keeps 13:47 an extremely orderly classroom. 13:50 Now a lot of times college classrooms 13:52 are not extremely orderly. Right. 13:54 Because this is no longer elementary school 13:56 where they turn out the lights when you're being too noisy 13:58 or whatever, the teacher stands 13:59 and looks simply serious to try to get your attention. 14:01 So, but this teacher, all the students in her classes 14:07 know, you don't talk, you don't whisper, 14:09 you don't ask unnecessary questions, 14:11 you don't pass notes. 14:12 This is a sit down, pay attention to the teacher, 14:15 listen to her lecture kind of class. 14:17 Now on the other hand, I know another teacher 14:20 who doesn't, who grades only on assignments 14:23 and you can talk, do other homework. 14:29 Maybe talking to your neighbor or whatever, 14:31 and it does not really matter to her as much as 14:34 it does to the other teacher. 14:35 Of course you don't want to be unruly, 14:37 but if you get your assignments turned in 14:38 that's what your class grade is based on. 14:40 Learning these subtle differences 14:42 or not so subtle differences can make the difference 14:44 between an A and C. 14:46 Now there's also different ways that different teachers 14:51 stress in their lectures what is important. 14:53 And I can't really, I don't believe that 14:56 I can explain how to tell except that 15:00 you have to learn to feel how? 15:03 To just to sense when the teacher is expressing 15:05 something that they think is important. 15:06 Like what? What do you mean? 15:09 Like what would it be that they would be 15:11 stressing that anything is important. 15:13 Any concept, any particular principle, 15:15 particularly of science classes or whatever, 15:17 when teachers, when teachers, 15:19 sometime it's really easy. 15:21 If they go over and over and over it, 15:22 then this is obviously something that is going to be 15:24 something important. Going to be something of a test, 15:25 right? Right, and for me 15:26 Right, and for me and up until the first quiz 15:29 or the first test 15:30 all I try to do in a class is figure out the teacher, 15:35 because you do not, 15:37 you can't really learn about a teacher 15:39 until you've taken their first test. Right. 15:41 And that way you can look back on 15:43 what they put into the test, 15:45 to test you on and how they stressed each 15:47 of these points in their previous classes up 15:51 until that first test and you can learn 15:52 how they got those across 15:54 and if they repeated themselves on these issues, 15:57 or if they quietly did 15:59 I had one teacher that said that we might have, 16:03 we have might have quizzes once in while. 16:05 She didn't an announce there was gonna be quiz, 16:07 but because I was alert 16:09 and I was waiting, watching. Right. 16:11 One day she had a lecture 16:14 and the majority of my classmates did not notice 16:16 that this was not new material. 16:17 This was a point by point 16:19 subtly point by point recap of the material that 16:23 we've covered last two and half weeks 16:24 at the beginning of the class. Right. 16:26 The beginning or we can have-- 16:27 And people say oh well, I've heard this before, 16:31 so I think I'll take a nap. 16:32 And I want to shake them 16:34 and say this is your ticket to an A, 16:36 hello, wake up. Yes, yes. 16:38 Do not go to sleep when they're doing a recap, 16:41 because this is almost certainly 16:43 something is going to help you 16:46 when it comes down to showing 16:49 what you've learned. Okay. 16:51 And something else, 16:53 give a teacher your full attention, 16:54 take notice during lectures. 16:56 When this particular teacher went over her recap 16:58 I noticed that it was former material. 17:00 I noticed that this was something basically points 17:04 that we had studied 17:05 and she was listing them in order 17:06 and so I took notes, I started things 17:09 and the textbook that we were doing 17:10 and it turned out that 17:12 I had a question by question quiz right there. 17:17 And every point that I had taken notes 17:19 on was on the quiz and needless to say, 17:22 I felt kind of good about myself, 17:24 because I had, you know, 17:28 I wasn't cheating I was just studying. 17:29 And here I had the quiz in front of me. Right. 17:31 And I realized that after I had taken the quiz. 17:33 And I told other classmates, listen, 17:36 you guys there is gonna be a quiz the next class period. 17:38 They said, huh! 17:39 She didn't say that there would be a quiz, 17:40 that okay fine, it's your grade, 17:42 you don't have to listen to me 17:43 and you should of heard the groans 17:45 when she passed out he quiz paper 17:47 the next class period. Right. 17:49 But anyway-- What's the next point? 17:50 Give the teacher your full attention, 17:51 that's the next point. Okay. 17:53 And this is kind of a no brainer, 17:55 but a lot of times people don't do it. Right. 17:57 Take notes during the lectures, 17:58 the sixth point is write down assignments immediately. 18:02 And you'll be surprised 18:03 how many students fail to do this. 18:05 They try to rely on their memory 18:07 and when you have a number of classes 18:09 and a work assignment or a job that 18:12 you have to do and you have other chapels, 18:16 meetings, responsibilities, 18:17 outreach you're involved in, 18:19 people you're gonna go do things with, 18:20 you will forget assignments. 18:22 You will forget when they're due, 18:23 you might remember in the back of your mind 18:24 that this is something I need to do. 18:26 But the due date will creep up on you. 18:29 So what I decided to do for this, for my own, 18:32 this was something I started in academy, 18:33 and this has proved a life saver to me. 18:35 I think, I remember what it is. What? 18:37 You got a notebook. 18:38 I got a notebook. I got a notebook. 18:39 I have a special notebook 18:40 and it says "assignments." 18:41 Big, bold, black print across the top. 18:43 And I put the date and the class 18:45 and I keep it with me in every class 18:47 and I put down the due date 18:50 and the specific requirements 18:52 and the teacher, and just exactly 18:55 what I'm supposed to do. 18:56 And you'll be surprised how popular you can get, 18:57 and this is a ticket to popularity. 18:59 Now when people you're used 19:00 that as classrooms around you. 19:02 Well this may not be true popularity, 19:03 but you'd be surprised and in the class 19:06 you have people tapping on the shoulder, 19:09 all the time saying, hey wait, wait a second, 19:11 did you write that down, 19:12 can I take notes of each stuff, 19:13 can I please. Did you tell me? 19:16 What does that assignment due? 19:17 That was due why didn't you tell me. 19:19 I know you always write it down 19:20 and before long you'll be saying, 19:22 look, I worked for this. 19:25 You too work for your own. 19:27 You know they're only 50 cents 19:28 a piece or whatever a little notebook. 19:30 Anyway the 7th point, get as much homework done 19:34 during your class periods as possible. 19:36 How can that be? It's possible. 19:38 You get homework done in a class? 19:40 Well, what I mean is this has to do with learning 19:44 to study your teacher. 19:46 Now with the teacher who grades only 19:49 on the assignments, if you can learn to do 19:52 two things at once, you can be filling out a worksheet 19:55 for another class, you can be taking notes 19:58 on her class assignments or whatever if this is not 20:02 an important lecture, you can tell that 20:04 the teacher's wandered off to, 20:06 when they were 25 years old and they took a trip 20:09 around Europe, and this does not have anything 20:10 to do with the class but.. Right. 20:11 You can pull out something else 20:13 and use this time effectively it will save you 15 minutes 20:16 when you're, in the evening 20:17 when you're doing your homework. 20:19 If a teacher says, I'm giving you 20:20 the rest of this class period to finish this assignment, 20:23 by all means buckle down and work on that assignment, 20:26 go find a quiet place, do not use that 15 minutes 20:29 to go sit on the grass, go check your email 20:31 and I know I've been guilty of this 20:32 and I've been in trouble for this with myself. Right. 20:35 Because this is something I've had to learn the hard way. 20:39 When a teacher gives you time to do something, 20:41 get it done. Do that thing. 20:43 Use that time and you'll be thankful if you can get 20:45 to bed half an hour early, or you have time 20:48 in the evening to make that phone call, 20:49 spend that time with your best friend 20:51 or write a letter, or go to town. 20:54 or whatever else you need to do that would be taking 20:56 for your homework time, you haven't gotten it done. 20:58 Do what you need to do when you need to do it. 21:00 Exactly. Now Principle Number 8, 21:04 Use verse packs to aid memorizing. 21:06 Verse Packs? Verse Packs. 21:08 You know I didn't know what that was until 21:10 you explained it to me so what is that? 21:12 Well, you know I should have brought one with me 21:15 to show today but I don't have it with me. 21:17 Basically it's a fold-in-half tiny little vinyl 21:22 or cloth pack with pockets, two pockets on the inside. 21:26 One could even make that for themselves, I suppose. 21:28 Make them for themselves. Yes, I have one 21:30 that's homemade, handmade. 21:32 Fold them in two, if it's in a pocket, shirt pocket, purse 21:36 back pack whatever it is that you have to carry around 21:39 with you, it's very easy to keep with you 21:42 and you can write down if you have say, 21:44 Biology Concepts or excuse me you're learning muscles 21:49 and bones for AMP or you know like I'm taking Greek 21:52 and I have all those Greek vocabulary 21:54 that I'm learning and if you can write those down. 21:57 Not only we're writing it down on the cards 21:59 help to implant them in your memory. 22:00 But you can also pull the card out 22:03 whenever you have 30 seconds, 22:05 whenever you're walking across campus, 22:07 you're standing in line for your meals in the cafeteria, 22:11 you're sitting, eating by yourself 22:13 and you know whatever. 22:16 And then the 9th principle ties directly into this 22:21 and that is learn to multi-task, 22:23 learn to do two things at once now, 22:25 from what I understand this is particularly hard 22:27 for guys to do. Why? Why do you say that? 22:30 Well, girls tend to do two or three, 22:33 or four things at once easier than guys. 22:35 Buy guys gonna have to start teach you in the kitchen 22:38 to do this and that and this at the same time? 22:41 That was a long time ago, mom. 22:42 Did you learn? I think so. 22:44 You're beginning to learn. Beginning, wait a second. 22:47 I think. In college, in college. 22:48 I think that this is something that 22:49 I have now tied to my life. Okay. Okay. 22:52 More than just beginning, but you're right. 22:54 I remember when you're trying to teach me 22:56 that and that's probably what gave me 22:57 the principle for this, for my own self. 23:01 But even though, you know guys, 23:05 the Psychologists say, the guys are more focused 23:09 and they can do only one thing at one time, 23:10 don't let yourself to be limited by that. 23:11 If you can learn to do it, if you can make yourself 23:14 break out of your comfort zone as you always 23:15 used to tell me when I was younger. 23:17 I think that was your daddy that started that with us. 23:19 Expand your comfort zone, learn to do something new, 23:21 learn to challenge yourself, set your goals high 23:23 and you know, you can use your work time 23:28 if you have a desk job, I work in a printing press, 23:31 when I'm running a press I can be checking proof sheets, 23:34 I can setup a card with Greek vocabulary on it, 23:38 right there on the light table beside 23:40 where I would be putting, checking my printing sheets. 23:42 And I can, I can memorize a word 23:45 or memorize a Bible verse. 23:47 And something else that's very effective with this is, 23:50 is Bible memorization. 23:52 Actually quick is Bible memorization. 23:53 I think of David Livingstone 23:55 who did that on his line of work. 23:58 Can you tell us about that? 23:59 That's what gave me the idea. 24:00 I remember reading when I was a little kid, 24:02 the biography of David Livingstone 24:04 and how when he was 8, 9 or 10 years old. 24:06 He worked in I think in a weaving factory. 24:09 And he had to tie the broken threads together in the looms. 24:12 This is in England? Yes, no, Scotland. 24:14 Oh, I was thinking of England. i'm Sorry. 24:16 And he brought a book, a Latin book 24:19 at under 10 years of age. 24:20 A Latin book that at end of his route 24:23 and he would catch a word or two 24:25 or just a phrase at every time he came back 24:27 and forth to the end of the machines 24:29 the roll machines he had. So little steps at a time? 24:31 And he learned languages that way, 24:34 and this is a child under 10 years of age. 24:36 Now if they can do it in, college surely we can do it. 24:39 Well, we don't have much time. 24:40 So let's go ahead and finish the last one. Okay. 24:44 Something that I found was important 24:45 is to skip supper, now I know not everyone can do this, 24:48 nor everyone has the metabolism 24:51 that can handle doing this. Yes. 24:52 But something that I found, 24:54 is something that has helped me, 24:56 not only do I sleep better, 24:57 I wake up hungry for breakfast. Right. 24:59 And a lot of times if there is, 25:02 especially if your college has a set supper time, 25:05 you can use that time. 25:07 Because everybody else most likely would be 25:09 at the cafeteria eating supper. 25:11 And this is half and hour, forty five minutes 25:13 of uninterrupted dorm quiet time. 25:16 And that is almost non existent. Right. 25:18 Any college student will agree with me 25:21 that a dorm is a loud, noisy, obnoxious place to live, 25:24 a lot of the time, not always but a lot of a time 25:27 and I know my dorm is great, 25:29 the girls in my dorm are wonderful. Right. 25:31 But there is still noise when ever you get a bunch of girls 25:33 together, or a bunch of guys and this is some time 25:36 that you can take for personal time, 25:38 or extra study time. Right, you've to move on. 25:40 Yes. Keep a very carefully, tightly balanced social life. 25:45 And I've heard people say, social life is important, 25:49 don't let your education get in the way of your learning, 25:51 make sure you have fun at college. 25:53 But, you know, I want to balance that out 25:55 with the fact that, yes, social life is important. 25:57 But college is not entertainment. 26:00 You're paying thousands of dollars a year, 26:02 or your parents are not paying thousands of dollars a year 26:04 for you to have fun, for you to entertained. 26:06 This is where you're here to get an education. 26:09 Right. You need mere fun only. 26:12 Right, but you can be entertained anywhere, 26:16 you can have fun anywhere, you can be social anywhere. 26:19 At college, you're paying to learn. Right. 26:21 And while you make friends, you have fun, 26:24 you have a social life that is not the priority. 26:26 So keep it balanced. 26:27 Priority is a balanced learning environment. Right. 26:30 And if you have to cut back on your social life, 26:32 in order to be able to create good study skills 26:36 or develop good study habits then do that, 26:38 and you may back off drastically and then work 26:40 your social life back in after you have 26:41 these other principles established. 26:43 Okay. We've got no time. Just a little bit left. 26:46 Two more principles, one, never use free time 26:50 before it's really yours. Yes. 26:51 And this is more commonly said, 26:54 don't procrastinate. Right. 26:55 Don't wait till the end to get something done. 26:58 Don't take your free time to go to town 27:00 and go and have fun when you need to have a paper written. 27:02 Write the paper, and if you have time 27:04 after the paper's written, then go to town. 27:06 Okay. Now next. 27:07 And the last one is, pray about cutting back your load. 27:11 Pray, ask God if there is something 27:13 you need to read out, some extra curricular activity 27:15 that's just taking up that time that you need to apply 27:18 to something more important, that's gonna make a difference 27:19 later on and you have to count your GPA 27:22 or you have to get a job or whatever. 27:25 Okay. And you wanted to read a scripture then. 27:27 Yes. I wanted to read Second Timothy 2:15. 27:32 I think this sums it up great, it says 27:35 "Study to show thyself approved unto God, 27:38 a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, 27:39 rightly dividing the word of truth." 27:42 Study to show thyself approved. 27:44 That's great, Sarah. 27:45 And I appreciate you being on the program with us. 27:47 Thank you, mom. It's been a pleasure for me. 27:49 And I thank you for being on the program with us too. 27:52 I pray that you can use these principles in your home 27:55 and I want you to join us again on Thinking About Home. |
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