#Also I have a presentation due for tomorrow and I'm shitting standing up Istg

[sunnylolli]

any tips on how to build an academic brain? sometimes I am scared of studying because I feel like I wouldn't keep up😔

Oooo, anon- My best advice in regards to being nervous about not being able to keep up would probably be: Everyone works at their own pace.

Depending on your country and the way the school works, there is of course a curriculum and a certain order to do things, so by those standards, keeping up might come down to work ethic and motivation.

And I mean, on that front, university is a safe haven for me, because it's all something I'm interested in learning about, in some way. Danish University is built in the way that it's themed around the education that you want to work with- I attend VIA University College and I am studying Pedagogy, for example. And every class is centered within that subject, so motivation comes easier because I find it interesting!

We have a main class with people we'll be working together with and be able to talk to the entire 3-4 years, which is mighty nice, so building friendships is way easier and feeling like you have someone to talk to about struggles or hurdles in regards to the work is great!

I'm personally petrified with group assigments (My Pedagogic bachelor is set up so that everything, assignments and projects, is all group-based, which is a personal nightmare for me atm) and presentations, so I'm having a rough start, but aside from that - Choose something you're interested in studying and can see yourself working with. So that it'll make sense to you! An "Academic brain" varies, because, as I'm ironically studying and learning about as I'm writing this: Academic learning is entirely dependent on how studying and learning is defined for you. To me, studying and learning is associated with performance and ranking, which I'm trying to reassociate into being for interest and curiosity to learn more.

You're studying to learn, not to get graded, does that make sense?

And as for performance anxiety for presentations, for example, I've adopted the mindset:

"Everyone takes a shit sitting down."