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This week, when mid-semester exams and paper due dates loom, let’s waste some time with a song, a comic and a bit o’ science!

There’s about one month left until the end of spring semester, which means on top of everything else it’s time to start thinking about what to do this summer. Applications for research positions at your university, internships at local businesses, and businesses looking for summer help are likely to give a handful of extra weight [...]

For the rest of March and into April I’m going to provide you with tricks and tools on how to get organized, get on top of your mountain of schoolwork and survive the last half of the semester. It won’t be easy – you’re going to have to cut down on partying, start studying smarter [...]

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 [...]

I’m in a program to become a student mentor, and immediately after Spring Break I will be assigned several students who are bombing half their classes. My goal will be to get them to pass their classes, and teach them how to organize, prioritize and still have a life. This is great, because this is [...]

I’m a big fan of blogs about productivity, and read them occasionally to the point of being unproductive. One of my favorite such blogs is one called Study Hacks, as you may have guessed from previous mentions. The author of this blog really gives a lot of great advice each time he posts. This semester [...]