Hi all

I’m currently going through my IT degree at uni, and I believe there’s plenty of you who have completed degrees of your own.

I find that while studying 2 units, when I start going through unit A, I seem to forget everything I’ve learnt from unit B. Then when I start going back to unit B, unit A starts to drift away.

I am doing my final assignments for both units at the moment and am completely stuck on both of them, and considering just not bothering with a uni degree and just do my own online study maybe at stackskills.com or something to learn whatever programming languages I choose to and hopefully still manage to find suitable work at the end of it despite not having a degree.

Have any of you had similar issues, and how it was resolved?

JTQ said:

Hi all

I’m currently going through my IT degree at uni, and I believe there’s plenty of you who have completed degrees of your own.

I find that while studying 2 units, when I start going through unit A, I seem to forget everything I’ve learnt from unit B. Then when I start going back to unit B, unit A starts to drift away.

I am doing my final assignments for both units at the moment and am completely stuck on both of them, and considering just not bothering with a uni degree and just do my own online study maybe at stackskills.com or something to learn whatever programming languages I choose to and hopefully still manage to find suitable work at the end of it despite not having a degree.

Have any of you had similar issues, and how it was resolved?

> I find that while studying 2 units, when I start going through unit A, I seem to forget everything I’ve learnt from unit B. Then when I start going back to unit B, unit A starts to drift away.

Not my experience.

My gold standard for memorising uni work was simultaneous three way sensory input. I would see, hear and write at the same time. If that’s not possible, try copying while talking out loud.

After the end of the unit, I would summarise, then summarise the summary, then summarise the summary of the summary. That would get the whole unit down to a single page of handwriting, which I then memorised.

If you need more memory help, I can call in Missy, who did a special “how to memorise” course before going to Uni. The method involved linking the concepts you want to memorise to something emotional, and to some actual physical place in the house.

https://www.pnas.org/content/116/10/3988

the placing of bits of information actually works, but I tend to use a few different methods to memorise because it often depends on what you are trying to recall.

You can use any location you know well… a room, the house, the street, your workplace… etc…

there are also things like ambient sameness… so smells (like rosemary) while you are studying and while you are taking exams. If you chew gum while studying, chew while int he exam.. that sort of thing. Unfortunately you cannot use music adis in an exam so music is not a good one to use.. in fact silence is pretty good.

JTQ said:

Hi all

I’m currently going through my IT degree at uni, and I believe there’s plenty of you who have completed degrees of your own.

I find that while studying 2 units, when I start going through unit A, I seem to forget everything I’ve learnt from unit B. Then when I start going back to unit B, unit A starts to drift away.

I am doing my final assignments for both units at the moment and am completely stuck on both of them, and considering just not bothering with a uni degree and just do my own online study maybe at stackskills.com or something to learn whatever programming languages I choose to and hopefully still manage to find suitable work at the end of it despite not having a degree.

Have any of you had similar issues, and how it was resolved?

I mean, having a degree is not essential. If the skills you need are obtainable in some other way… the end goal is the same. Although sometimes promotion and future learning might rely on a degree.

Arts said:

JTQ said:

Hi all

I’m currently going through my IT degree at uni, and I believe there’s plenty of you who have completed degrees of your own.

I find that while studying 2 units, when I start going through unit A, I seem to forget everything I’ve learnt from unit B. Then when I start going back to unit B, unit A starts to drift away.

I am doing my final assignments for both units at the moment and am completely stuck on both of them, and considering just not bothering with a uni degree and just do my own online study maybe at stackskills.com or something to learn whatever programming languages I choose to and hopefully still manage to find suitable work at the end of it despite not having a degree.

Have any of you had similar issues, and how it was resolved?

I mean, having a degree is not essential. If the skills you need are obtainable in some other way… the end goal is the same. Although sometimes promotion and future learning might rely on a degree.

In the public service it certainly does.