This post was sponsored my Minted. Thanks to the lovely individuals over at Minted for sponsoring this post about graduation for my readers. Graduation season is quickly approaching. Even though it's just March I know that all graduating seniors probably have a countdown already starting on their phone, computer, and anywhere else with a clock. Most graduating seniors could probably tell me when t[...]
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Today's blog is all about reading with purpose, understanding the parts of an article, and skimming that article with intent. In graduate school right now I read a minimum of 6 articles a week between my two courses Violence & Society and Crime, Control, & Inequality. That's a lot of reading, but you don't read everything--you skim! I am going to teach you how to skim with purpose in today[...]
Yesterday I got an assignment back and I got a 9 out of 10. That is a pretty decent score as far as grades go, especially since there are tons of points in the class and assignments like this one are only worth 15% of the grade. Alas, I still fought for that point, because my work was done correctly and I deserve to be compensated correctly for the time and effort I put into my work. Today on the[...]
I know better than anyone that no one wants to talk about school over winter break. It is important to spend a little bit preparing for the new school year though, so you can avoid the night before class jitters as much as possible. Here are 5 Things You Can Do Over Winter Break to Prepare For Next Semester! Re-Evaluate Your Performance From This Semester Now is the time to re-eval[...]
Professors are very important to your college career. They can be a great resource when it comes to your grades (how about raising that 89.4 to a 90 por favor?), important internships and job opportunities, as well as just being a future colleague of yours. Especially when it comes to professors who teach classes in your major, it is very important to get to know them. When I f[...]
Today I am talking about getting involved at college. It can be hard for high schoolers to transition to college involvement. It's easy to be involved in high school where there are ways less organizations to join and things to do. At my school, there are 200+ RSOs (or so they say...) so the struggle of finding which ones fit you best can be hard. I am here to give you my tips on how to get involv[...]
Today I am giving you a how to on writing great papers! Writing is one of my strong points when it comes to college—which is great because I am not great at:LabsFeigning InterestWaking up happyNot procrastinatingBeing alertEtc…I could go on a while. *Picture by Adobe Stock contributor arekmalangYou can think of paper writing as building the layers of a human being. You can have a[...]
