Introduction to the “How to Study” Book for STEM Majors
This lesson serves as the introduction to the newest edition of the “How to Study” book from the Quartic Play and Triple Play collection. The lesson explains the purpose of the book, the overall philosophy behind the series, and the intended audience for the material.
The primary focus of the book is not academic prestige, internet fame, or theoretical recognition. The focus is helping undergraduate STEM students prepare themselves to obtain stable, high-quality employment through discipline, communication skills, textbook literacy, and professional behavior.
The Main Objective
The lesson repeatedly emphasizes one central idea:
Get a job before you graduate.
According to the lesson, many students graduate with degrees but without experience, professional communication skills, or a strong understanding of how employers actually evaluate candidates.
The “How to Study” book is designed to help students understand:
- How to study properly in college
- How to structure technical notes
- How to approach problem solving
- How to read textbooks effectively
- How to prepare for employment
- How to avoid destructive academic habits
The Purpose of the Quartic Play Collection
The Quartic Play and Triple Play collections include multiple books covering mathematics, problem solving, study habits, technical communication, and STEM preparation.
The lesson explains that the collection also includes:
- Ultimate Cheat Sheet collections
- Thousands of mathematics notes
- Long-form STEM lessons
- Video walkthroughs
- Podcast-style educational content
These materials are intended to help students build strong technical literacy over time rather than simply memorize isolated procedures.
Undergraduate Degrees vs Graduate School
A major section of the lesson discusses the difference between preparing for employment and pursuing highly specialized graduate research.
The lesson argues that many undergraduate students become distracted by:
- Internet arguments
- Academic ego
- Artificial intelligence shortcuts
- Cheating workflows
- Endless online tutorials
- Passive educational consumption
Instead, the lesson emphasizes focusing on employability, real communication skills, and practical competence.
The Importance of Experience
The lesson repeatedly states that experience matters more than many students realize.
Employers frequently request:
- Bachelor’s degrees
- Technical skills
- Professional communication
- Software familiarity
- Work experience
- Project organization
Students are encouraged to begin building those skills while still completing their undergraduate degree.
Turning Off the Internet
One of the strongest themes in the lesson is reducing dependency on internet distractions.
Students are encouraged to:
- Read the syllabus carefully
- Follow the assigned curriculum
- Study directly from textbooks
- Practice structured note taking
- Focus deeply instead of multitasking
The lesson argues that constant dependence on internet shortcuts prevents students from developing real academic discipline.
Problem Solving Structure
The book teaches students how to structure mathematical and physics solutions professionally for exams and technical communication.
Example mathematical notation may appear throughout technical notes:
The lesson stresses that clean formatting and organized presentation matter tremendously in STEM communication.
Reading Textbooks Properly
The lesson repeatedly argues that textbooks remain one of the most important educational tools in STEM fields.
Students are encouraged to:
- Read definitions carefully
- Follow notation exactly
- Study worked examples
- Practice writing mathematics by hand
- Build long-term technical literacy
The emphasis is on understanding mathematical language rather than memorizing isolated shortcuts.
Professionalism and Employability
The lesson repeatedly frames education as professional preparation.
Employers are portrayed as evaluating:
- Integrity
- Consistency
- Communication
- Reliability
- Discipline
- Ability to learn independently
The overall message is that technical ability alone is not enough. Students must also become trustworthy and professionally organized individuals.
Final Thoughts
This introduction frames the “How to Study” book as a practical guide for undergraduate STEM majors who want to become employable, disciplined, technically literate professionals.
The lesson strongly encourages students to focus less on internet culture and more on structured learning, communication skills, textbook literacy, and long-term career preparation.
Original Transcript
Hey everybody, I’m just going to show you guys this is the first uh the first video in this series for the how to study book of the quartic play. If you guys get my uh quartic play or triple play bundle, these are all the books that you get with it. All of these books and my ultimate cheat sheet collection for algebra through calculus and so forth and whatnot. It’s a good deal. It comes with access to about a thousand videos too via the stemm.com. And I am just going to be going through and doing basically a video audio book of the latest edition of the how to study book to share with you guys some stuff. So before I do the video audiobook, I just want to show you how it works. Um this is this is a short read. It’s 50 textbook page 50 textbook size pages. So it’s kind of like a one to 200page regular sized book. Um but it’s there’s a lot of math print in there which is condensed information. But when you come to the book, my my primary focus for you guys is to explain to you how to get ready for getting a job. I am not here to try to display some sort of fancy I discovered this. I won a field medal. I won a Nobel Prize. I’m so great. That’s not what I’m here to do. Okay? And none of you that are listening to this are likely to go to that level of information anyways. The majority of you are just just trying to get a bachelor’s degree so that you can have a high quality job that you feel good about doing something that you like to do that you’re proud of that you worked hard to achieve that offers job security better than most jobs at least. I’m here to help you guys reach that point. Okay? Those those of you kids that are on here that are like, “He doesn’t even have a PhD.” Yeah, dude. Why do I care about having a piece of paper that will destroy my ability from getting a job pretty much anywhere? There is a saying, a PhD will get you one job. A masters will get you a thousand and a bachelor’s will get you a hundred. If you get a PhD, it means you want to be a professor for the most part because no company, no job applications, hardly any at least say PhD. They say masters or bachelors with five years of experience. A master’s degree is not necessary in most cases. Experience is necessary. Most of you kids graduate with zero experience. My objective here is to try to get you guys to understand how to gain experience while you’re in your undergraduate degree. Okay? So, so pay attention to what I’m saying here. So, this book here tells you first. It it tells you first and foremost. It says this is the objective here to get a job before you graduate, a high-paying job. This is the point. If you want to go in to do research and go into grad school, that’s different. You’re going to do that. The first step to going into grad school is turning off YouTube. Stop cheating with AI. Stop pirating digital content. Grow the hell up and get the hell out of here because you’re not. This ain’t the place for you. If you’re trying to go to a PhD, if you’re trying to be a PhD in math, physics, or engineering, first thing you need to do is stop watching people like me. You need to leave. This is this channel ain’t for you. Okay? And if you keep cheating with YouTube and AI, you’ll never ever ever make it through grad school. And if your response is, uh-uh, I know somebody that did, congratulations.
Leave. Okay? I’m here to help people get jobs. if you’re not serious about this, you’ll never get a job. I I run businesses. I don’t hire people that cheat and lie and argue on the internet. Like, are you kidding me? [snorts] So, anyways, um so the beginning is how to how to get a job before you graduate. Then I go into before starting a STEM degree. So, I’ll be going through all of this and then I’ll be talking about it and then I show you guys how to how to structure solutions for exams to maximize credit between math, between physics. I show you what technology you’re allowed to use in here. I show you how to format things, how to look at problem solving, how to approach problem solving in college, how to stay focused, how to study properly, how to take notes from a physics book. This is a great great great book. It’s a great little read and it covers everything you need to know just to basically jumpstart your brain on uh how to study in college and how to get through it. Really, in all honesty, all you need to read of all my books is this book. You read this book and you follow its instructions. What you’ll do is you’ll turn off the internet. You’ll go to class. You’ll follow the curriculum. You’ll learn from the textbook. You’ll become successful. Come back to me when you graduate and send me some money or something for helping you, okay? Cuz you don’t really you don’t need to sit there and watch people on the internet all day. That’s not how you learn this stuff, okay? Anyways, I go through this great detail practice. Most of this is literature. It’s meant to convince you that you’re wrong about everything. That you need to turn off the internet, read the syllabus, read the code of conduct, which is ridiculous that anybody would have to do that in the first place. You signed a contract saying you’d follow the code of conduct and the syllabus when you went to college. The fact that I have to go through this much detail to convince you that you’re a liar, you’re not trustworthy is ridiculous. But it helps because a lot of you, you just don’t realize that lying and cheating and stealing makes you a dishonest, untrustworthy person. That will leave you unemployable even if you have a bachelor’s degree. And people who get in grad school who leech off a government money and do pointless research that amounts to nothing. That’s not impressive, kid. If you have money and a bachelor’s degree, you can go to grad school. They’ll be happy to take your money. You think it’s impressive to get into grad school. It’s not being something impressive is when a undergraduate gets a six-figure income job senior year before they walk off the stage with their diploma. That’s freaking impressive. Somebody that fails at an undergraduate degree and has to go to grad school because they spent four years using latte type set software cheating with AI and Khan Academy. That’s extremely unimpressive. I’ve met a lot of graduate students, PhDs. They are not impressive people. Okay. Not at all. And they spend 20 years toiling in a box by themselves to make some discovery that nobody ever reads or learns anything about. Not impressive. Okay. Every once in a while somebody somebody makes a discovery that’s profound for the times. It was impressive at the time, but if you’re going to school for that reason, you might as well go to Hollywood and try to become an actor. If you want attention, go be an actor. If you want to argue, go to politics. If you want to lie, cheat, and steal, go to business. Okay? This is a place for students that want to actually get a freaking job and be part of society and not be a burden on society like the pirators and the cheaters and the whiners and the complainers. Have a nice day. This is the intro to the how to study book. You can pick it up at any of my stores. It’s included with your membership to my website as well, which if you’re watching this before fall, you can get a lifetime access code still. It’s a great deal. Check it out. And if you don’t like the way I talk, come meet me in person because I’m very charismatic. I’m very fun and very nice and very kind. I’m playing a role here, okay? I’m just explaining to you guys what adults look at you guys like. I’m pretending. Okay? I’m acting. The way I’m talking is the way your professors think about you. It’s the way your future employers think about you. Right now, I’m doing you a favor by playing a role to explain to you what your professors think about you. They can’t say it to you because they’ll get fired. I can tell it to you. You’re a pathetic whiny little germ. Change and you won’t be a pathetic whiny little germ anymore. All you have to do is change or you can get mad at me and not change and further your patheticness. It’s called acting. I don’t care about you. I don’t know who you are. You meet me in person, I’ll be like, “Let’s have a beer, bro. I’m not at work right now. When I’m at work, I’m acting. I’m pretending to be angry professor. You guys suck. You’re lazy. [laughter] Have a nice