Where could one find many, many past exam papers for university undergraduate courses? I find attempting them under exam conditions the ideal way of preparing for exams, and really excellent at pointing out where there are gaps in my knowledge and I need to revise. I'm particularly interested in psychology exam papers.

Yes! I see so many arguments that the environment simply doesn't matter in depression, and most of them seem to come from, say, grad school administrators who benefit from denying that they're creating a horrible environment with no clear expectations, no positive feedback, no opportunities to socialize, etc. If depression is always a purely random chemical imbalance, well, it's a pretty neat coincidence that mine vanished within a week of my quitting grad school.

My parents made me study business management instead of literature. My life has been much more boring and unfulfilling as a result, because the jobs I can apply for don't interest me, and the jobs I want demand qualifications I lack. In my personal experience, working in your passion beats working for the money.

Downvoted for dismissing the humanities.

Go Habit!

How are your todos functioning for long-term repeating tasks, or tasks that have a long while before they become actionable?

I applaud your more productive use of internet time, and your exercise habits. Read any really interesting textbooks lately? There was talk of effective daily exercises here in the last journal thread.

I have started using HabitRPG to reinforce reading on a daily basis, Anki usage and exercise, as well as doing some programming, though that last is less well established. I had the program on my phone for a while but kept on forgetting it so I just set two daily reminders in Google calendar. Problem solved. I uninstalled remember the milk as HabitRPG's todk functionality is good enough.

I am now spending a lot of time that was previously unproductive internet time reading textbooks on my phone's Kindle app. Almost certainly inferior to paper books but my phone had pretty much killed that habit already. I amn't able to read and process highly technical or mathematical texts but for psychology textbooks and the like it works fine.

I've been going to the gym two or three times a week, ttavel excepted for three months now. I'm still above my ideal weight but more of said weight is muscle. I feel like I should do some kind of minimal daily exercise routine in addition to lifting at the gym but am unsure what I should be doing.

Does anyone understand how the mutant-cyborg monster image RationalWiki uses represents Less Wrong? I've never understood that.

Presumably you don't want the information to just form a thin film on top of the learner.

It seems you just invented a perfect term to describe (one of) the revealed preferences of the education system.

I'm not sure if I'd call that memorization. I'm certainly talking about putting things in your head that weren't there before

Well, that's the thing. Learning can be quite different. Some of it is putting new things into your head. But some of it is rearranging your internal maps. And some of it is generating new connections between things inside your head. A whole bunch of it is all of the above.

I understand the idea of limited capacity per sleep cycle -- I'm curious whether it works in different ways for different kinds of learning.

Do you think the Group 1 schools are superior to the rest as far as quality of material goes?

What do you mean, "quality of material"? The textbooks they use, the business cases they discuss? That stuff is broadly similar.

The major differences are in who surrounds you (and, consequently, what the expectations are). The TAs and professors at top-tier schools can assume that there are very few stupid people among their students and so have no need to dumb down the teaching towards a low lowest common denominator.

It is also generally held as true that on the global scale all top-ten business schools are American.