participate. Instead of looking up to see who or what just happened, concentrate harder on your own work. By doing this, it enables the student to concentrate with the ability to not be distracted. (Kansas State University 1)Another problem that students complain of is that they think about other things instead of listening to the lecturer speaking. This problem can easily be avoided by taking a couple necessary steps. The first step being to set aside time each day to just think. By thinking at a set time, it keeps the mind from wandering and thinking at times when it shouldn’t. If in a lecture, a student feels the need to think about other things, they simply have to remind themselves that they have a time set aside to think about it. (Kansas State University 1) ...