33 Ways to Stay Focused on Homework during Build Season

1. Sheer Willpower
2. Banish your phone from where you do homework… or it’s existence altogether.
3. Become a hermit and make sure you’re alone for maximum focus-itude
4. Have everything you could possibly need close by so that you can’t be distracted.
5. Make a checklist of what you need to do.
6. Sheer Willpower
7. Set a personal goal to accomplish homework by a set time.
8. Reward yourself when you finish. (Ex: Rave, Mountain Dew, Internet memes)
9. Bribe yourself with an award for when you finish. If it works for toddlers, it’ll work for you.
10. Coffee is a miracle drink that enhances focus tenfold…you’ll need a bathroom nearby.
11. Sheer Willpower
12. Tea is a wondrous drink that enhances focus by a factor of 101
13. If you’re too tired, sleep. There is a point where productivity was SO three hours ago.
14. If you are up past 3:33, don’t sleep. It will make you more tired. Besides, sleep is for the WEAK. Or less-procrastinating…Jury’s still out on that one.
15. Resist the urge to visit the “gorgon” (the wondrous World Wide Web)
16. Exercise! Blood flow will wake you up and refresh your brain. Pushups and sit-ups work in cramped areas…five minutes of pain creates a whole lot of gain.
17. Take a break from a specific subject after about 30 minutes, switch gears and do other homework.
18. Instrumental music or other soothing music that you find relaxing.
19. Stay at a workplace, you’ll find you’re more productive than in a comfy place like your bed or a couch. Consistently do your homework in the same place so temptations are always at bay.
20. Don’t multitask, let’s not lie, you just want to watch TV, watching SpongeBob won’t help you with your biology homework.
21. Sheer Willpower
22. Remind yourself that your life will end if you don’t do this. (Bad grades=No robots=life over)
23. Remind yourself that you can sleep if you do this.
24. Encourage yourself by saying that you will get good grades and therefore be allowed to participate in extracurricular activities (FIRST!!) if you finish this.
25. Turn off the Internet if you don’t need it.
26. Sheer Willpower
27. For studying, record and listen to a study device, like vocabulary, during a break.
28. Think about how your team is depending on you to stay on the team by keeping your grades up.
29. Pace around for a bit to get your blood flowing.
30. Blow bubbles or do something childish to get creative and imaginative. Crayons are magical, especially in lab reports.
31. Sheer Willpower
32. If you desperately need sleep, attempt to transfer information to your brain through diffusion by sleeping on your textbook. (Studies notwithstanding)
33. Use your official Killer Bee antennae to stay focused through yellow and black awesomeness. If you don’t have antennae, ask a teammate for help!

~ GadgetGal and MagnetMan (Saving the pressured robotics kids, one blog at a time)