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E5 Skye Helfant: Why Most Students Take Terrible Notes

Aidan's Infinite Play

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How to Write a Function in 2 Seconds

I think that this idea has been so underappreciated by a lot of the college students that I have seen at Cornell. It doesn't make sense to write down every single function because there's so many. You want to be delegating your time to things that produce a useful output. As an I see everything as opportunity costs, right? If you study 10 hours for an exam and then you get an 80, then you study another 10 hours to get a 90, that 10 hours could be spent somewhere else.

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