Unlike conference attendees, most students do not have the faintest idea
what your presentation will discuss, so do not get cute and get in over
your head. Keep it simple and stick to the facts.
While some of these tips may seem obvious, students fail to use them.
Not all of them may work for you but some may prove to be new, more
streamlined ways of studying. You never know unless you try.
To most students grades represent the end goal. To be fair, they are often
what goals are based on: we compute class averages to see where we
stand against our peers. As we consider potential employers, we often
have our dreams shattered when we realize that some have a minimum
GPA requirement.
Many of you will have started (or at least should) the search for
employment before you graduate. The race is on so there is no need to sit
idle.
When graduation day does come, you should shut everything off. This is
Pick An Interesting Topic
In some classes, professors hand out topics and give students no choice.
Others prefer to list some choices and let students choose topics. In other
cases, students are told to choose a topic and run it by the professor.