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Tangent: it’s quite alien to see such intense explicit study for ugrad CS. I did none—no reviewing, no exercises, no written notes. Only murderous problem sets and projects. I think more explicit learning would’ve helped me, but not sure the right balance.

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Andy Matuschak

@andy_matuschak

· Apr 28, 2021

This college student has been live-streaming his daily study sessions for the past year, 12 hours straight, every day: youtube.com/c/JamesScholz/ He’s not narrating or providing funny commentary like a typical Twitch streamer. It’s just: you watch him study, very intently!

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I’m not sure Caltech undergrads (at least the ones in my vicinity) *knew how* to do explicit studying like this. There was a lot of working in public, but I rarely saw anything other than murderous problem sets and projects.

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Murderous problem sets is such a good description ! 😂

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Imagining someone watching this while making music so it could be hi fi studying to make beats to

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This makes me realize I have no idea what it even means to study. I imagine an explorer with a giant magnifying glass looking at a brightly colored insect

Nick

@nickcammarata

Apr 29, 2021

Or I imagine “doing a study”, as in doing research. I hadn’t realized how pro just talking to other researchers 1-1 about what they’re excited about and stuck on as a way of learning I was. I just don’t really know how to do anything else

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