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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]