We'll be talking all things unique, from how to research your options and choose where to go, to student life and study tips, and exploring the amazing city we live in.

我們將討論所有獨特的事情，從如何研究你的選擇和選擇去哪裡，到學生生活和學習技巧，以及探索我們生活的這座奇妙的城市。

Hello everyone, and welcome to Manchester Voices.

大家好，歡迎來到曼徹斯特之聲。

We have three students with us today.

今天我們有三名學生。

My name is Maddy, and I am a second year drama and film student, and my fun fact about Manchester is that The Atom was first split right here at the University of Manchester.

我叫麥迪，是戲劇和電影專業的二年級學生。關於曼徹斯特的趣事是，《原子》就是在曼徹斯特大學首次分鏡的。

I'm Grace, and I'm a pharmacology student in first year, and my fun fact is that there are over 200 languages spoken in Manchester.

我叫格蕾絲，是藥理學一年級的學生，我的趣事是曼徹斯特有 200 多種語言。

Hi, I'm Georgia.

嗨，我是喬治亞。

I'm a second year sociology student, and my fun fact is that Manchester has got one of the oldest libraries in the UK.

我是社會學二年級的學生，我的趣事是曼徹斯特擁有英國最古老的圖書館之一。

It was founded in 1653.

它始建於 1653 年。

Awesome.

棒極了

Today's topic is about revising, studying.

今天的主題是關於複習和學習。

How do you best revise?

如何進行最佳修訂？

What are your initial tips?

您有哪些初步建議？

I think people underestimate the power of going with somebody and revising.

我認為人們低估了與他人一起修改的力量。

I like having somebody there to just bounce off.

我喜歡有人在旁邊幫我說話。

We don't even need to talk, but it's having somebody there with me.

我們甚至不需要交談，但有人陪在我身邊就好。

And it's an hour.

一個小時

I set an hour timer, and I think, how much can I get done in this hour?

我設置了一個小時的計時器，我想，在這一個小時內我能做多少事情？

And then I keep on going and going, and by the time it's gone, four hours have already gone.

然後我繼續走啊走啊，等我走完的時候，四個小時已經過去了。

Yeah.

是啊

And I like to listen to music I don't always listen to.

我還喜歡聽我不常聽的音樂。

So I dedicate an album of someone that I like, but I wouldn't really go out of my way, and I just sit and just listen to it on a low volume, because I find if I listen to music that I like, after a bit, I'll start bopping to it.

所以，我會為我喜歡的人獻上一張專輯，但我不會刻意去聽，我只是坐在那裡，用小音量聽，因為我發現如果我聽自己喜歡的音樂，過一會兒，我就會開始跳起來。

Absolutely.

當然。

And then I'm a bit distracted, and I'm like, oh, I'm not really doing my work anymore.

然後我就有點心煩意亂，我就想，哦，我不是真的在做我的工作了。

So I think that helps me with actually getting my work out and revising and sitting down and getting the work done. 100%.

是以，我認為這對我真正完成工作、修改、坐下來完成工作很有幫助。100%.

There's also, I've seen it, and I've tried it before, but listening to either movie because those are designed to make you focus in on what you're watching or doing.

還有，我看過，我以前也試過，但聽電影都是為了讓你專注於你正在看的或正在做的事情。

Especially I think the Mario Kart soundtrack is supposed to be really good for people to just sit and study to, and I will not lie, I have tried it.

特別是我覺得《馬里奧卡丁車》的原聲音樂應該非常適合人們坐下來學習，不瞞你說，我也試過。

I'm going to have to give it a go.

我一定要試一試。

And it really worked for me.

這對我來說真的很有效。

It's an odd one, but it does work.

這是一個奇怪的方法，但確實有效。

So that's just going to throw that in there on the topic of music.

所以，關於音樂這個話題，我就不多說了。

Any other tips?

還有其他建議嗎？

I think, yeah, just not making it solely you sitting in your room and just doing hours and hours and hours in one go, and leaving it all to the last minute.

我認為，是的，不要讓它僅僅是你坐在自己的房間裡，一氣呵成，一做就是幾個小時，把一切都留到最後一刻。

I do it with my friends that even if we're not talking in the hour, you just look up and you have a little laugh, and then you just get back to it.

我和我的朋友們都這樣做，即使我們在一個小時內不說話，你也會抬起頭，笑一笑，然後繼續做下去。

And it's just making it not hell for you.

這隻會讓你的生活變得更糟糕。

Setting some boundaries for yourself and knowing that, oh, after this, I'm going to go to the gym, or I'm going to go out, I'm going to cook a nice meal, something like that.

為自己設定一些界限，並知道，哦，做完這些，我要去健身房，或者我要出去，我要做一頓美餐，諸如此類。

So you can look forward to something to break up your vision and things like that.

是以，你可以期待一些東西來打破你的視野，諸如此類。

I definitely think that's true.

我認為這絕對是真的。

And I mean, I'm not the best example of this, because I definitely, I love to cram.

我的意思是，我不是最好的例子，因為我絕對喜歡填鴨式學習。

I love doing it in a very short amount of time.

我喜歡在很短的時間內完成。

And this is, again, I think I'm very much motivated by fear of wanting to get it out, wanting to do as much as possible.

同樣，我認為我的動機很大程度上是害怕，想把它寫出來，想做得越多越好。

And I don't know about you, but I have DAS, so it's the Disability Support Service here.

我不知道你們怎麼想，但我有 DAS，也就是這裡的殘疾支持服務。

So you'll get the special services.

是以，你將獲得特殊服務。

I haven't utilized those, but I And it's awesome.

我還沒有使用過，但我覺得它很棒。

The only issue is that if you do have DAS, you then, especially from the winter term, you don't have a break, which is something that I didn't realize.

唯一的問題是，如果你有 DAS，那麼，尤其是從冬季學期開始，你就沒有休息時間了，這是我沒有意識到的。

All of my essays were due in the last week, and then I had two days before the term started up again.

我所有的論文都是在最後一週交的，然後我有兩天時間等待學期再次開始。

So definitely keeping that discipline of having a schedule and then having to follow it, I think is one of the things that work best for me.

是以，我認為保持這種有計劃、按計劃行事的紀律對我來說是最有效的方法之一。

Even though it is very hard, I just have to continue to force myself to sit down and work.

儘管這很難，但我必須繼續強迫自己坐下來工作。

And I usually, you know, chocolate.

我通常會吃巧克力。

If I finish writing a page, I'm like, great, I can have some chocolate now.

如果我寫完一頁，我就會想，太好了，我現在可以吃點巧克力了。

Yeah, I think that's generally kind of how I work.

是的，我想這就是我的工作方式。

Lots of chocolate.

很多巧克力

Well, I have ADHD, which, you know, I think is a superpower, but it also is awful.

我有多動症，我覺得這是一種超能力，但也很糟糕。

Because you don't have that like the motivation center in your brain.

因為你的大腦中沒有像動力中樞那樣的東西。

I don't have that.

我沒有。

So it takes a while for me to start revising or doing anything.

是以，我需要一段時間才能開始修改或做任何事情。

So I think kind of the biggest thing is just have you have to have discipline.

是以，我認為最大的問題是你必須遵守紀律。

And I think that's for any student, you do just have to have a lot of discipline of getting up and going and doing things.

我認為，對於任何學生來說，你都必須要有起床和做事的紀律。

But I think it can be a very hard thing.

但我認為，這可能是一件非常困難的事情。

So I always just try and motivate myself in external factors.

是以，我總是嘗試從外部因素來激勵自己。

If I do this, I can get good grades.

如果我這樣做了，我就能取得好成績。

And then I'll treat myself.

然後，我會好好犒勞自己。

I'll buy myself a little snack after studying.

學習之餘，我會給自己買點零食。

That's what I do as well.

我也是這麼做的。

I have ADHD too.

我也有多動症。

So I kind of find that if I motivate myself with other people as well, so like my flatmates, sometimes even if we're at home, we would like FaceTime and do FaceTime studies so that we're both on our phone and we can hold each other accountable for doing the work for a certain amount of time, like an hour or something like that.

所以我發現，如果我和其他人一起激勵自己，比如我的室友，有時即使我們在家裡，我們也會通過 FaceTime 學習，這樣我們都在手機上，我們可以讓對方負責在一定時間內完成工作，比如一個小時或類似的時間。

Or going to the library with someone and then saying we're going to do an hour and then we can have a break or go and get a snack or something like that just so I can have specific focus time, I guess.

或者和別人一起去圖書館，然後說我們要做一個小時，然後我們可以休息一下，或者去買點零食什麼的，我想這樣我就可以有特定的專注時間了。

Yeah.

是啊

No, I'm similar in the sense of like, I reward myself.

不，我也有相似之處，那就是我會獎勵自己。

So if I do XYZ, I might buy myself clothes.

所以，如果我做 XYZ，我可能會給自己買衣服。

Or after this essay, I'll buy myself the jacket that I really wanted for ages.

或者寫完這篇文章後，我會給自己買一件心儀已久的夾克。

But I like to be organised.

但我喜歡井井有條。

I think life can get busy for uni students and anything can happen.

我認為，大學生的生活可能會很忙，任何事情都有可能發生。

And it's the self-discipline there.

這就是自律。

It's like you still have your personal life as much as you have to do uni.

這就像你仍然有自己的私人生活，就像你必須完成大學學業一樣。

And it's being organised.

而且正在組織中。

I do like to write my to-do list and have your assessment dates and know what's coming to be organised.

我確實喜歡寫我的待辦事項清單，並有你的評估日期，知道要安排什麼。

I think that helps me a lot so I can oversee like, oh, I've got this essay during the week.

我覺得這對我幫助很大，這樣我就可以監督自己，比如，哦，這周我要寫這篇作文。

I need to buckle up and look at my notes now.

我現在需要繫好安全帶，看看我的筆記。

Absolutely.

當然。

And I think in terms, I don't know how your programmes work, but ours are pretty like, you kind of know what's going to come up on each week.

我不知道你們的節目是如何運作的，但我們的節目很像，你知道每週會有什麼節目。

Like each week you have a test topic, essentially an essay topic.

比如每週都有一個測試題目，基本上就是一個作文題目。

So I think very early on in the semester, I'll go through and pick, this is a life hack, I pick like the week that I know I'm going to be interested in and then I make sure to go to everything and do like all the extra work for that and keep really good notes.

是以，我認為在學期初，我就會去挑選，這是一個生活小竅門，我會挑選我知道自己會感興趣的那一週，然後我確保去做所有的事情，就像做所有的額外工作一樣，並記下非常好的筆記。

So like when revising period does start, I have like really strict kind of notes already set up, which helps I think, especially with like ADHD, because doing everything in one weekend is not always the best way to do it.

是以，當複習開始時，我已經準備好了非常嚴格的複習筆記，我認為這很有幫助，尤其是對於多動症患者，因為在一個週末做完所有事情並不總是最好的方法。

And it kind of is just like that built up over time that I think professors are looking for in essays at least.

我認為，至少教授們在論文中尋找的就是這種長期積累的東西。

Yeah.

是啊

And what you were saying like about the body doubling of the other person there with you.

還有你剛才說的，和你在一起的另一個人的身體會加倍。

So helpful.

太有用了

Yeah, I absolutely agree.

是的，我完全同意。

Okay, I guess in general, do you have any revision or study tips that have really benefited you guys?

好吧，我想總的來說，你們有什麼讓你們受益匪淺的複習或學習技巧嗎？

I don't think it's the other person.

我覺得不是對方的問題。

Kind of flowing into the next question is this, how do you motivate yourself, especially after maybe possibly a long semester?

下一個問題是，你如何激勵自己，尤其是在可能經歷了一個漫長的學期之後？

I think I recently started this semester because I did have my first uni exams.

我覺得我這學期才剛開學，因為我確實迎來了第一次大學考試。

Yeah.

是啊

After that, I was like, okay, for this one, I'm going to try and do something a bit different where I'm going to start doing a bit more work throughout the semester.

之後，我就想，好吧，這一次，我要嘗試做一些不同的事情，在整個學期中，我要開始做更多的工作。

So I don't leave it all to the last minute because I did do a bit of that.

所以，我不會把一切都留到最後一刻，因為我確實做了一些這樣的事。

Yeah.

是啊

So I kind of gave myself goals if I did this amount of revision and like started going to the gym and doing all of these things that would make it easier for me in the long run to revise that I would give myself a reward.

是以，我給自己定下了目標，如果我完成了一定量的複習，並且開始去健身房鍛鍊，做所有這些從長遠來看會讓我更容易複習的事情，我就會給自己獎勵。

So me and my friend were going to go out and go for brunch at these places.

於是，我和朋友打算出去，去這些地方吃早午餐。

And like if we kept meeting the milestones, so we kind of had that between each other that we were motivating each other to do.

如果我們能不斷達到里程碑，那麼我們之間就會互相激勵。

Yeah.

是啊

I'm a DAS registered student as well.

我也是 DAS 的註冊學生。

And I know exactly what you mean by you do something and you've got that deadline or you've got an extra week.

我完全明白你說的 "你做了某件事情，你有了最後期限，或者你有了額外的一週時間 "是什麼意思。

So that plays on your mind and it makes you on a continuum.

是以，這在你的頭腦中起著作用，使你處於一個連續體中。

You just think, oh, when I'm going to get a break because you're on a continuum.

你只是在想，哦，我什麼時候才能休息一下，因為你是一個連續體。

And in terms of like motivating myself, I'll be honest, I've got a condition that sometimes lacks my motivation.

在激勵自己方面，老實說，我的身體狀況有時會讓我缺乏動力。

And then I just, I'll get myself in a rut and I just think, oh, how am I going to do this work?

然後我就會陷入困境，我就會想，哦，我怎麼才能完成這項工作呢？

I'm not going to do this work.

我不會做這項工作。

And all I honestly, all I think to myself, it genuinely is self-discipline and it's the sense of moderation.

老實說，我心裡想的是，這真的是一種自律，一種節制。

Like what Grace just said is you having little things in place every week or I do every week for myself, depending on your motivation, to just keep yourself going.

就像格蕾絲剛才說的，你每週都要做一些小事情，或者我每週都會為自己做一些小事情，這取決於你的動力，讓自己堅持下去。

Because at the end of the day, sitting in your room, doing loads and loads and loads of work, reading, doing everything all in one go isn't good.

因為在一天結束時，坐在房間裡做大量的工作、閱讀、一氣呵成地做所有事情並不是一件好事。

But at the same time, not doing any work isn't good.

但同時，不做任何工作也不好。

It's finding that middle ground of moderation because you need to get yourself into a routine of go and do some work and then go and have some fun at the same time.

這就是要找到適度的中間地帶，因為你需要讓自己養成一種習慣，去做一些工作，然後同時去找一些樂子。

But you need to do your work.

但你需要做你的工作。

Absolutely.

當然。

And it's finding that you need to do your work in order to have a moderated life.

它發現，你需要做自己的工作，才能過上有節制的生活。

Because I think mental health wise, it affects people doing too much and doing too little.

因為我認為，從心理健康的角度來說，做得太多和做得太少都會影響人們的心理健康。

Each end of the spectrum is not good for you.

光譜的每一端都對人體不利。

You have to find that middle ground and you won't, I don't feel balanced if I don't have it in the middle ground.

你必須找到中間地帶，如果沒有中間地帶，我就不會感到平衡。

Oh yeah.

哦，是的。

I agree.

我同意。

There's that like, oh, I think Emma Chamberlain said it, not to name drop, but where it's kind of like when you're taking all this rest and you're not doing anything, but you still cannot find like any kind of like energy to go and do anything.

我想艾瑪-張伯倫說過，我不是指名道姓，而是說當你休息時，你什麼都沒做，但你仍然找不到任何一種精力去做任何事情。

And it's because when you're resting, if you're just sitting there thinking about all the things that you have to get done, you're not actually taking a break.

這是因為當你休息時，如果你只是坐在那裡思考所有你必須完成的事情，你實際上並沒有休息。

Like mentally you're still trying to be busy and trying to fill all these gaps.

就像在精神上，你還在努力忙碌，試圖填補所有這些空白。

So I think especially in exam season, taking real genuine breaks where you aren't thinking about uni or all the things that you have to get done.

所以我認為，尤其是在考試季，要利用真正的休息時間，讓自己不去想大學或所有必須完成的事情。

I think that's one of the best ways to motivate yourself.

我認為這是激勵自己的最佳方式之一。

Or at least for me, like if I am constantly thinking about assignments, you're going to burn out within a couple of days of doing assignments.

或者至少對我來說，如果我總是想著作業，那麼在做作業的幾天內，你就會感到倦怠。

Yeah.

是啊

I think I did a bit of that in the beginning because I had had a gap year.

我想我一開始也是這樣做的，因為我有過一年的空白期。

So then I'm coming back to uni and having all of the work and all of the emails.

所以我回到大學後，所有的工作和郵件都要處理。

I was like, oh my gosh, I don't know how to adjust to this.

我當時想，天哪，我不知道該如何適應這一切。

So at the beginning I struggled a bit because I was just so unsure of what was going on and how to cope with it.

是以，一開始我有些掙扎，因為我不知道發生了什麼，也不知道該如何應對。

But then I've kind of implemented things this semester, which has made it so much easier for me, like learning from my mistakes of not keeping up with things or like asking other people how they're doing things as well, which I think is really important for things like extra reading, knowing what people are doing and what pages they're reading from a massive textbook can help you so much if you're just asking questions and asking the right people.

我認為這對課外閱讀非常重要，知道別人在做什麼，他們在讀大部頭教科書的哪幾頁，如果你能問問題，問對人，就能幫你很多。

And everyone will try to help you the best they can.

每個人都會盡力幫助你。

So I think that's another thing, trying to reach out to people.

是以，我認為這是另一件事，就是努力接觸人們。

Yeah.

是啊

And I think uni especially, it's obviously very self-led and you have to do all of this alone.

我認為，尤其是大學，它顯然是非常自我主導的，你必須獨自完成這一切。

However, I think there's also, especially when I have reached out to professors and I've been like, hey, can we have designated kind of like meeting terms, whether that's just during their office hours where I can go in, talk for five minutes about what I'm up to and then continue on.

不過，我覺得還有一種情況，特別是當我聯繫教授時，我就會說，嘿，我們能不能有指定的類似會面的時間，不管是在他們的辦公時間，我可以進去，談五分鐘我在做什麼，然後繼續。

That's worked quite well, especially with essays because I know, especially having ADHD, self-led is terrifying because you don't have that structure, even though structure can be very terrifying on the opposite end.

這樣做效果很好，尤其是在寫作文方面，因為我知道，尤其是患有多動症的人，自我主導是很可怕的，因為你沒有那種結構，儘管從反面來看，結構也是非常可怕的。

Coming to uni for me was, it was like freedom.

對我來說，上大學就像自由一樣。

Oh my gosh, how do I do anything?

天哪，我該怎麼辦？

So just reaching out to both professors and kind of teachers assistants being like, can I just bounce my ideas off of you?

所以，我只是想跟教授和助教們說，我能不能把我的想法告訴你們？

So I'm self-regulated.

所以我是自我調節的。

And I also think it adds that if I know that I'm going to have a meeting with the teacher, I want to come in with stuff prepared for that, which is just, again, another general life hack of keeping that motivation on if it can be hard to find that self-discipline, because that's always been the hardest thing for me.

我還覺得，如果我知道要和老師開會，我就會帶著準備好的東西去，這也是另一個生活小竅門，如果很難找到自律，就可以保持動力，因為這對我來說一直是最難的事情。

So talking about this, we've talked about how we motivate ourselves.

說到這裡，我們已經談到了如何激勵自己。

Do you consider yourself good at it?

你認為自己擅長這個嗎？

Because I think for me, no.

因為我覺得對我來說，沒有。

I know exactly the things I need to be doing, of how I can get into it, of building the momentum to keep the ball rolling.

我清楚地知道自己需要做什麼，知道自己如何才能融入其中，知道如何營造動力，讓球繼續滾動。

It's just that sometimes I just don't want to do it, which is not always beneficial.

只是有時我就是不想做，這並不總是有益的。

But I think that's a very real uni student thing.

但我認為這是大學生的真實寫照。

It's a hard thing to go to any school, but especially one that can be so academically rigorous.

上任何學校都是一件不容易的事，尤其是在學術上如此嚴謹的學校。

It's hard.

這很難。

And then having jobs outside of it, and also extracurriculars.

除此之外，還有工作和課外活動。

Yeah, sometimes I just don't want to do anything.

是啊，有時候我就是什麼都不想做。

Yeah, I'm the same.

是啊，我也一樣。

I think it depends if I enjoy something, I'm so much better at motivating myself to do it.

我認為這取決於我是否喜歡某件事情，我更善於激勵自己去做這件事。

So if there's a module I particularly enjoy, I'll get all of that stuff done first, and then I'll leave the stuff I don't like until the last minute, and then it kind of builds up a bit.

是以，如果有我特別喜歡的模塊，我就會先把它做完，然後把我不喜歡的模塊留到最後一刻，這樣就會一點點積累起來。

So that's something I'm still working on, getting better at.

所以，我還在努力，爭取做得更好。

But I think overall this semester, I've definitely improved just from trying out new things and different techniques to motivate yourself and be more disciplined, I guess.

但我認為，總的來說，這個學期我肯定有所進步，因為我嘗試了新的東西和不同的技巧來激勵自己，讓自己更加自律。

Yeah.

是啊

Well, it was Mother's Day the weekend, and my mum went and saw me.