Websters Dictionary 4V

Delayed gratification, or deferred gratification, “is the ability to resist the temptation for an immediate reward and wait for a later reward.”  This is really important in school because the more you actually retain the information being taught the easier it is to want to learn.  Yes it takes a lot more work, but in the end it pays off.  All the long hours spent away from friends and family to do the tedious homework and studying actually pays off in the end.  Just like for those kids not eating the marshmallow actually paid off in the end. 

Stratagems: “trick devised or used to attain a goal or to gain an advantage over an adversary or competitor.” Everyone has his or her own way of getting their schoolwork and studying done. When you have your own tricks that work for you everything works out. 

Contrivances: “a plan or scheme; expedient.”  This word is important because it is important to make a plan in college and stick with it.  When you stick to a plan you are more likely to have time to fit everything you need to in.  More times then not, when a lot of school work piles up people want to run the other way and they end up procrastinating, but when you stick to a plan you are less likely to get stressed.

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