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In this post, I feature insights from Sara Pennington of SegueToCollege.com. In this Q&A, I ask Sara three key questions about misconceptions and common study mistakes that college freshmen often fall victim to during their first year out of high school. Switching from high school …
Our brains are not meant for storing information; they are made for creating. We simply don’t have enough bandwidth (energy) to remember everything. How many times has someone introduced herself, but twenty seconds later you forget her name? Our brains have more important things to …
Summer reading: you either hate it or love tolerate it. Regardless, it’s one of those things that has to get done, despite our preference to fall asleep in a hammock by the lake. Below are 4 summer reading strategies that will help you not only …
Note-taking is a skill. The more you do it, the better you get. Even the most focused students get confused about note-taking. But throw ADHD or just general distractibility into the mix, and taking notes during class can seem impossible. The most common questions I …
The study tip I’m going to explain here might seem obvious at first, but it’s one that I always see my own students forgetting to do. Read through to the end, and if you think it’s something you already do, I challenge you to ask …
Most of the content on this blog and in my videos is centered around how to study. But it’s just as important to know how to recognize when you should stop studying. In some cases, more is not always better. In some cases, you will …
The following project management strategy will help you plan, start and complete basically any project – no matter the subject or your grade level. Not a student? It can even help you organize and get through work or home projects. The hardest part about doing …
This is Part 1 of a 2-part series about memorization strategies. When you’re done here, check out Part 2 for more memorization tricks! One of the most common questions I get from students is about how to memorize information. They tell me, “I always forget …
This is not a blog post about the proper structure of an essay. It is also not a post about how to write a thesis statement. (Want that? Here you go.) Instead, I am giving you three tips for how to start an essay when …
The internet is full of back-to-school tips — some of them good, and some of them straight up weird. (One list I saw suggested that students add “hot glue gun” to their school supplies list. Even the crafter in me is thinking whyyyyy!?) Most of …
