Procrastination: is it just a bad habit, like biting your nails or smacking your gum? Or is it a bigger deal than that? We think it’s a bigger deal. We’d lump it into one of the top 3 or 4 problems that hinder student success. It’s so important to us that we have included a […]
Improve Your Writing… Without Writing (Seriously)
Without a doubt, writing is an important skill. And before you ignore this blog because you don’t think writing is really that important, consider these questions: Do you have a Facebook account? Do you Tweet on Twitter? Have you sent any emails lately? How many text messages have you typed today? We write everyday. Whether […]
Increase Your Memory and Test Scores in Three Easy Steps
Increase Your Memory Is it really possible to increase your memory? Are you a forgetful person? Do you ever spend thirty or so minutes reading something, only to forget the majority of the material you read by the time you close the book? Think your memory is a lost cause? Think again. There are plenty of ways […]
Which matters more: my SAT scores or grade point average?
The short answer is grade point average. But it’s really not a short answer. It’s not a short question, even. It’s a difficult, complicated, messy question and answer that we have no ability to answer definitively. But we’ll try to make a case for a few reasons why your grade point average is probably more […]
Three Steps to Avoiding the Monday Blues
Why do we hate Monday (other than the fact that it is five days from Friday)? Mondays are rough because as we look at the week ahead of us, we see so many things we don’t necessarily want to do—but have to do—and we don’t even know where to start. We get overwhelmed, stressed, and […]
Accelerate productivity with 3 time management tips every student can use
If you’ve been reading along our student time management series, hopefully you’ll have benefited from some of the time management tips we’ve discussed. We’ve redefined time management — it’s really task management. We’ve talked about how important it really is. And we’ve shown you a task-sifting time management strategy that even the best students can […]
Student time management strategies: 3 lessons learned at the ER
Most of us probably don’t think of the emergency room as a classroom. That’s probably good. Ideally we’ll all spend the least amount of time possible at the ER. My family tries to limit our trips to once or twice a year. We hit our quota for 2013 – we’ll see how this year goes. […]
Why “good time management” has little to do with time
Good time management skills are often a topic of study skills conversations. But what are we talking about really? You can’t manage time. In the words of the great Steve Miller Band, “Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’, into the future…” We talked about this briefly in our last post on student time management. We […]