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Everyone  makes them – we spend precious time each day making a nice, long list of things we want to accomplish. Lofty goals, such as “Review last week’s physics lecture notes” and “Volunteer at Shelter”. Then, just to be realistic, we add “Take shower” and “make breakfast” so we can feel good crossing something off [...]

Two weeks of folding bike bliss have gone by. Overall, the Dahon is a great investment and a serious time saver, especially during my longer days or when I have weird situations that require getting across campus in short time spans. There are a couple annoying issues, but nothing’s perfect. THE PROS: SUPER MEGA ULTRA [...]

Wednesday I spent the hour before my physics lecture in the math tutor center on campus. It’s a class-sized room with round tables that have different signs on them, such as MAT171, and you can go in for free and share the tutor at your class’s table with any other students in the same course. [...]

The past few weeks have been pretty tough – being sick and trekking back & forth across campus five days a week, on top of regular stress, had really worn me down. Most days aren’t too bad, but Tuesday and Thursday are the days I have a class which is about a 30 minute walk [...]

For the first two and a half years of college I averaged 35 hours per week at work, in my office, running a business, while taking 12-14 credit hours at a time. Last semester I learned that combining that workload with upper-division courses is a recipe for burn-out and depression. In the end, I had [...]

As a student who works full-time, I’m fully aware that it is insanely hard to plan your days around your class schedule. One of the things I’ve discovered is that if you don’t plan for your work and your classes it’s really easy to either skip your personal life or forget to complete important assignments. [...]

Every semester, college students struggle to take notes for class while the professor lectures at light speed. Methods vary for how you store the information you’ll need the most come test time, but almost every student has the same problem – they just don’t know how to take effective notes. Later this week I’ll cover [...]

Previously, I spoke of the hazards of dropping a class without considering the financial repercussions of the act. This late in the semester, I was faced with that decision again. It turns out that taking three fairly difficult courses that all require significant amounts of time outside of class, and combining it with a 30-hour [...]

Over the weekend I discovered Study Hacks, a site that offered me great tips and advice, as well as the link to this handy little note taking tool. One great piece of advice was to drop a class, which I thought was brilliant as I was seriously feeling the pressure with my 3 lectures, 2 [...]