Look at the syllabus

Before Breakfast

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Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 3 September 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Know what's coming, in school and in life

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0:00.0	I'm Paul Muldoon, a poet who over the past several years has had the good fortune to record
0:07.9	hours of conversations with one of the world's greatest songwriters, Sir Paul McCartney.
0:14.0	The result is our new podcast, McCartney, A Life in lyrics.
0:20.6	Listen to McCartney, A Life in lyrics on the iHeart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever
0:28.5	you get your podcasts.
0:33.6	Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeart radio.
0:39.2	Good morning.
0:41.0	This is Laura.
0:42.9	Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.
0:46.0	Today's tip is to look at the syllabus.
0:49.9	Literally, if you are a student, and metaphorically, if you are not.
0:55.6	By knowing what's coming up and what we will be responsible for knowing, we can plan
1:01.3	our time in a far more rational fashion.
1:06.8	Looking back, I've realized that I am really lucky that I did as well in school as I did.
1:12.2	It took me a long time into college to realize that teachers often distributed a syllabus
1:19.4	at the start of the year, and that this was a useful document.
1:24.7	If I thought about it much then, I probably just viewed it as a way to know what was assigned
1:28.9	week to week or see when the term paper would be due.
1:32.9	Only several years in did I realize that I could look at the syllabus at the beginning
1:36.7	of the semester and plan out my reading and studying, making sure I understood what would
1:43.3	be expected of me at any given point.
1:46.5	I could plan my time to make sure that the heavy weeks had the space to absorb what they
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