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New Student Tip #1

A small stack of reading material

Tip #1: identify a few speed reading strategies, and start practicing them.

Shown here: coursepacks for just three courses.

Not pictured: the myriad documents I read electronically on my iPad.

As Professor Rick Morris said, “Graduate students need to be efficient.” Reading every word of the assigned articles and case studies in this program would be (in my opinion) inefficient. I don’t advise skipping readings, but rather finding ways to speed up the process.

I invite (or should I say challenge?) my fellow bloggers-in-crime to add to this list. Let’s see if we can get to, say, 30? Thirty tips for 30 years of MSC? I like the sound of that.