Originally Posted by
Armitage
This is just like my ESI-Se cycling friend, he frequently mentions how he should improve his studying methods. I then provided him some tips based on my methods and experience, to which he said: "Well, every individual has their own way of studying, I believe." Like dude, I'm a couple years ahead of you, I went through the waves, I know what I'm talking about, what the best practices are and what common pitfalls are on the road to graduation. Don't keep whining about having to study more efficiently, if you aren't willing to keep notes of your lectures and ignore all those distracting (anti-)social media. On the other hand, he has taken to heart to study for his statistics exams first and foremost and to always keep up with the assignments for them. He's rather inconsistent about accepting my advice.
My EII-Fi friend keeps getting into trouble with his scheduling. He always wants to meet up, but then he has a study deadline that he needs more time for, his girlfriends wants to visit his family, his job at the restaurant asks him to work an extra shift, in order to fill in a colleague with COVID, or he has to prepare the class of the next day for his teaching internship. For months already we have been scheduling appointments with him cancelling about 6 or 7 times, while I only had to cancel once, because my graduation supervisor wanted to meet up once more before he left for holiday. He's always rather sad when he has to cancel one of our appointments, because he enjoys hanging out together. He literally said that. I tried to analyse what's the common cause behind this all, and it turns out he has no agenda, no calendar, and no reminders of his appointments, promises, and responsibilities. He tries to do it all by head and it shows how well that works for him. I have urged him to start using Google Calendar to keep track of everything, which he agreed to might be necessary, but I doubt that he has actually followed through with it. I'll find out soon enough, because for tomorrow we planned to attend a cybersecurity lecture in the Hague. Perhaps I'll propose to grab dinner beforehand too, if it goes through. I sure hope so.