Oh! And I didn't get to my advice about writing papers.
If you can start in advance, do. Try not to wait to the last minute. I was never good about this, but I was at least much better than undergrad. If all you can do is write 100 words, or one paragraph, at least that's *something*. Do that once a day for a week two weeks out from when your paper's due, and you'll have something started by the time panic sets it. I found outlines terribly helpful. At some point when you think you can't write any more and you're going to flunk out of school and definitely that this paper is crap (maybe that's just me but I thought that all the time), do the bibliography. Because that takes way more time than it seems like it should, but doesn't actually require brain sweat. So you'll be doing something productive and necessary but yet giving your mind a break.
I also liked to write my papers single-spaced and only double space them near the end, but that's just me.
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Date: 2004-09-29 06:46 am (UTC)If you can start in advance, do. Try not to wait to the last minute. I was never good about this, but I was at least much better than undergrad. If all you can do is write 100 words, or one paragraph, at least that's *something*. Do that once a day for a week two weeks out from when your paper's due, and you'll have something started by the time panic sets it. I found outlines terribly helpful. At some point when you think you can't write any more and you're going to flunk out of school and definitely that this paper is crap (maybe that's just me but I thought that all the time), do the bibliography. Because that takes way more time than it seems like it should, but doesn't actually require brain sweat. So you'll be doing something productive and necessary but yet giving your mind a break.
I also liked to write my papers single-spaced and only double space them near the end, but that's just me.
I'll stop now, promise. :)