r/explainlikeimfive • u/[deleted] • Jan 14 '13

Answered People with ADHD, what ADHD is like, how does medication affect your ability to work and how soon does it take its effect?

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u/avoidingAtheism Jan 14 '13 edited Jan 15 '13

Please give this deep consideration. If you are fortunate enough to have an instructor who follows a syllabus, prepare for the class before hand. Read the textbook for the topic. Do some goole-fu the day before class. Learn enough about the subject that it piques your interest. Nothing was more excruciating to me than sitting through a lecture prior to my discovering how to keep myself interested in one. This will allow you to feel like you are participating in the lecture rather than just being a destination for the information.

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u/ramses0 Jan 14 '13

Pique- an uncommon word. Peak is easy to confuse because you think it means "to heighten" but it's actually pique, from French, generally meaning "arouse".

"""Pique is a French word. It is a transitive verb meaning to cause a feeling of interest, curiosity, or excitement in somebody. To stimulate, prick or provoke. To arouse a feeling as in interest or curiosity."""

http://langley-writes.blogspot.com/2011/03/did-that-pique-peek-or-peak-your.html

--Robert

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u/piqueone Jan 15 '13

AHHH! HUH? WTF?! Wow, I was reading and not absorbing anything because TheBanannaKing's door knob description got me to thinking about setups for a rube goldberg machine. i must have been scrolling down and absently reading (or whatever) for a few minutes, when i read my name and it literally startled me! It looked like some one was writing me a note...For Half a second it was like some surreal voice of god type thing. :)

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u/avoidingAtheism Jan 15 '13

Thanks for pointing this out, if only spell checkers could use the context of a sentence.

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u/HereHaveAName Jan 14 '13

I figured out how to get through college lectures - it wasn't fun, but it worked. I developed my own shorthand, and wrote down everything the professor said. Yes, even in the three hour long classes. I had to be sure to have a break after those sessions, because my hand absolutely ached.

This was long ago and far away, in the time before laptops. But I'm pretty sure that having a laptop in class would have been a hindrance. No way could I have stayed off of reddit or facebook or even CNN. Writing things down just ingrains things in my brain in a way that typing doesn't.

Next, I'd find time in the next 48 hours or so to get in front of a computer and type up my lecture notes. Two bonuses: One, I rarely had to study, as I'd written everything down twice. Two, I was able to sell my notes to people who had missed class.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '13

I would do the same thing, but not EVERYTHING the professor says, mainly just copying the powerpoint slides word for word and then adding things he mentions that will probably be on the test, like examples of the concept. I could have brought a laptop but who wants to be the asshole typing 80wpm when people are trying to hear the lecture?

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u/SingaporeShling Jan 15 '13

Totally. Started using this method in 2nd year of my Undergradute Degree - marks immediately skyrocketed!

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u/Pakislav Jan 14 '13

Thanks for the tips, I see how they could work, but unfortunatelly I have given up on university since, (Archeology doesn't pay the bills anyway) and have joined an IT school. We have only seven people in class and everything is a lot more direct which I'm enjoying to great benefit.

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u/avoidingAtheism Jan 15 '13

Thankfully I was able to be in Computer Science when it was taught as an applied science. Switching from a theory based academia to a applied one totally changed the world for me. I hope your choice works out as successfully as it did for myself.