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Study skills 6# How memory works

People often complain that their memory is terrible which prevents them from becoming good students. You have to realise that human memory doesn’t work like a computer’s HDD which means three things: Firstly, it has much bigger capacity than any existing hard drive. Secondly, you can’t pour information into it only once and expect it’ll stay there forever. Thirdly, …

Study skills 5 # Effective study time

Let’s assume that you’ve mastered time-management and overcome your procrastination. You’re sitting behind your desk, determined to start. Now you’re facing another challenge—how to use your time effectively and finish that task as soon as possible while still delivering excellent results? Forget about multi-tasking Multi-tasking is a mythical ability to deal with more tasks at …

Study skills 4# Overcoming procrastination

It seems as if procrastination became a synonym for being a student. We all postpone our tasks from time to time, it’s only natural to avoid things that are unpleasant. But what if procrastination starts ruining your life? The term procrastination comes from the Latin word pro-crastinus which means “belonging to tomorrow.” You can procrastinate …

Study Skills 3# Time-management for students

If you feel that you don’t have time to accomplish your tasks even though you don’t procrastinate that much, it’s highly probable that your current time-management isn’t effective. Panicking during exam periods doesn’t have to be part of your student life and forget the lie that you work best under pressure. You don’t. How to …

Study Skills 2# Ideal study space

Whether we like it or not, the environment influences us more that we are willing to admit. Even though we all know that noisy places aren’t good for studying, some other places we might find quite okay are actually not good as well. So… where (not) to study? Dormitory/flat-sharing If you’re sharing your dormitory with …

Study skills 1# Can anyone learn how to study effectively?

Long story short—yes! Study skills, as the term hints, are skills which means that it’s something that can certainly be learnt. As for a definition: Study skills are powerful and practical methods how to make studying more effective. The goal isn’t to study harder but to study smarter. Study skills include various methods like specific …

September restart for university students

Just like New Year is somehow a magical date for most people to start with new habits or breaking old ones, September feels similar to students. There’s something about a new academic year that makes you think that you can make it this time, even though reality usually proves you wrong. How to actually make …

5 easy weekend activities in Hradec Kralove

Hradec Kralove, a city in the center of Czech Republic, which has everything a student would want to peruse their education and make some amazing memories with some amazing people. Here are a few things that you, as a student can do to enhance your student life experience in this beautiful city: Strawberry picking: you …

Medical care and Insurance in Czech Republic

Medical care The Czech Republic has very good medical care for both, their local citizens as well as international people. Health care is provided by government-run- and private medical facilities. During the time of emergency, outside the working surgery hours, you can always visit the emergency departments in the hospital. In case you have a …

Some things to know before starting with first year of medical school

When I started med school, I was clueless about what I was getting myself into. Nobody in my family is a doctor so no one could give me any advice as to how to tackle my first year here. I still remember my first day of medical school, my first lecture was anatomy. The professor …

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