Studying on public transport? (1 Viewer)

[irvine]

So I have a fair train commute to and from school (1 hour), and I usually just read news feeds on my phone. Does anybody get through homework/study on public transport? What do you do?

 

[mRJoJo]

read my prescribed text, read over my typed up notes

 

[ninetypercent]

i dont
its too difficult

 

[speedofsound]

no. motion sickness. and my time on the bus is my "me", self-indulgent, iPod time.

 

[bubbrubb]

It's damn near impossible to really learn anything on public transport unless you are
a. immune to motion sickness
b. it is not too noisy
c. not completely crowded

but even then its still impossibly difficult.

However, even if you are packed like hell on a crowded sweaty bus with barely any room for your tucked in elbows, you can still learn ALOT on that 1 hour trip (or 10 min trip) IF it is the day of your exam!

So for the most part.... its a big resounding no.

 

[Kozak92]

I read Frankenstein this way. I don't find the trains to cause motion sickness or are noisy at all in the morning..

Easy to read notes, books etc. on the train. Harder to do homework but I have done it.

 

[elliottjohnson]

I drive to school, so no luck reading.
although if i want something educational i listen to abc national radio.

 

[xV1P3R]

I go to school on a nearly always empty train, so I take out my folder and organise stuff. Gluing pages in, organising my sheets. All the easy stuff with little mental input.

 

[scroates]

On the train i used to do maths. Was difficult but definitely do-able. But you really need for there to be little other passengers on the train otherwise you may get in the way. I was lucky, coming home from school i used to be the only person in the carriage.

 

[annarh-saur]

I read over my study notes Or read my assigned english novel if i can't be bothered studying

 

[kyokaku92]

Lol, I only live one stop from school so definitely not.

 

[x jiim]

I sleep on the bus. Then when I get home my brain is slightly more functional, so I can study/work better =\

 

[Shadowdude]

I don't do it - but I'd suggest perhaps reading through notes only.

 

[cassiecocaine]

Hour and a half ride up and back from my TVET course every week. Usually for me, it was study half the time and sleep the rest. I did alot of highlighting, organising, and yes, I am immune to motion sickness

 

[agirlinatutu]

Yeah I'd be throwin up the last thing I ate if I even read on the train/bus.

My morning bus trip is full of feral screaming primary school kids and its only a 15min trip home so it isn't really worth it

 

[johNNyboy772]

reading on train / bus makes me dizzy

why would you even do it, just do it at home

 

[cherii2007]

I do sometimes. Usually just go through the work I'd done that day, organise my folder, read my english text, stuff like that. Nothing too heavy. I'm less than 20 away from my station, so I'm not given that much time. :\ Plus, there are usually people talking and it's really distracting. (Train-- if it was bus I'd get sick doing work, though reading is fine) Sometimes I just look out the window, or observe others. Or pass out for a few mintes...

 

[adomad]

train is OK since it isn't rocky and stuff... bus just makes you sick and feel funny. and you can't write properly on a bus... so by the time you wait for the bus to stop at the lights, you only get like a 30 second period to work like a maniac then the bus starts moving. and by the end, its like 3 minutes?

 

[bbychocoholic]

studying on public transport on the way home is pretty pointless for me since my stop is only one train stop away from school...takes like 3 minutes to get there. the only reason i use public transport is because it gets supercrowded at my school with all the cars and whatnot, as well as since the station is behind then school.

but if i'm going somewhere afterwards and it'll be take me over 10minutes to get to by train, then i'll pull something out and study/work on.

 

[b00m]

35 minute train ride, get through a bit of revision.. but obviously will always remain distracted by the opposite sex...

edit: oh and those f**n Fortstreet students won't STFU