Study Skills - Course Introduction

Ever wondered why school doesn't regularly schedule classes on the sort of skills and knowledge sets that are way more likely to come up on a day-to-day basis than, we dunno, analyzing the use of anaphora in that one Robert Burns poem no one even liked when Robert Burns was alive?

Why aren't there more courses on just talking to people with confidence? On budgeting and investing money? On doing taxes (the horror)?

Heck, why isn't there just a class on how to take other classes more efficiently—on managing your study time, taking better notes, pre-reading so that you don't have to read the same Robert Burns line over and over. On how to create study aids that make it easier to remember when Robert Burns was born, and when he died. Because that's clearly more important than figuring out how much to tip at a restaurant.

That's where we—and this course—come in. We can't change the way school works (not yet, anyway. Soon…), but we can make the memorization, the last-minute study seshes, and the prepwork go a whole lot smoother. And who knows? Maybe after this course, you can even start having study seshes during reasonable hours, and not at three am the day of the Econ test.

(We, uh, may be projecting our own memories of high school here…)

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