Hello! I found my way onto here from SSC. Currently on a gap year before starting university in the fall. Interested in rationality as a method of making the most of college education. I’ve been reading sequences and description of certain classes (cough AP cough) as “guessing the password” really put words to frustrations I’ve felt in school. Any suggestions on where to go from here?
There’s also a little bit of stuff about studying*, and note taking systems (for example, Zetelkasten (search), wait no it’s Zettelkasten(a how to post)).
This post is about grad school, maybe there’s one for undergrads by someone else that I haven’t read?
Or you might have to write it.
There also might be general stuff that might be useful for undergrads in particular. I have no idea what that might be, but here’s The Hammertime Sequence.
Hello! I found my way onto here from SSC. Currently on a gap year before starting university in the fall. Interested in rationality as a method of making the most of college education. I’ve been reading sequences and description of certain classes (cough AP cough) as “guessing the password” really put words to frustrations I’ve felt in school. Any suggestions on where to go from here?
Since you haven’t gotten any responses, here’s some stuff I remember that seems somewhat related:
Old posts around here trying to find the best/good textbooks. (Search page, some relevant links: The Best Textbooks on Every Subject, Best Textbook List Expansion, General textbook comparison thread. There’s also “Literature Reviews”, maybe an explanation of how to do those would be useful to you—I think there’s 2 blog posts that do that floating around, one by an Elizabeth perhaps.)
There’s also a little bit of stuff about studying*, and note taking systems (for example, Zetelkasten (search), wait no it’s Zettelkasten(a how to post)).
This post is about grad school, maybe there’s one for undergrads by someone else that I haven’t read?
Or you might have to write it.
There also might be general stuff that might be useful for undergrads in particular. I have no idea what that might be, but here’s The Hammertime Sequence.
*There was a post by American Breakfast that seemed good, no that’s AllAmericanBreakfast (and the search was awful at finding that) but I don’t remember which one. This one maybe? https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HZuAT2sGbDbasdjy5/the-multi-tower-study-strategy They also seem to write a bit about this topic so maybe something they’ve written will be useful.