Reflective SQ4R Method Analysis

My current study practices is a struggle. I have not found the right method of studying. I am a procrastinator, I wait to do an assignment to the last minute. I do write notes on the reading material outside of class and sometimes inside of class. What I found out recently is that if I write all the vocabulary words on flashcards and write the definitions it makes it easy to know the words and remember what they mean. I am a hands on learner and I am struggling to find a studying technique to reflect how I learn.

The “Reflective SQ4R method” is broken down into six steps, survey, question, read, recite, reflect, and review and they help a person study in an effective way. This method seems like a formal to an easier way to study, I am the type of person that has to go back and reread what I read and this method is all about going

My environment growing up was not the best. I was poor, some of the apartments I lived in was filled with cockroaches. I was left to always defend for myself while my mom went out to drink and get high. Food was hard to come by and when it was around it was full of fat and I was a chubby kid. With my mom smoking 24/7 I developed asthma. My heredity was negative because I come from a family that has some sort of mental illness, like a learning disability, depression,emotional eating etc. I do not look like my mom at all but we both were on the short side. A lot has changed from when I was younger.. I was adopted so my home life is better, my mom is not always gone, there is never time I am alone fending for myself, nobody drinks or does drugs, I have three meals a day and a well stocked fridge and pantry. I still don’t look like any of my family members. I still have depression, ptsd, anxiety, and a learning disability but I have a better control over it. I am not the same person I was and its all because I needed love, someone to be there for me, and someone who understood