College is often referred to as “real life” when contrasted with high school, and that’s pretty much true for better and worse. This week we started thinking about college realities: how they compare to what you experience in high school and how they shape the rest of your life. Boiling it down to these 8 […]
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Unless you come from money or have a trust fund, college is usually a time to scrimp and save. Luckily, you don’t have to eat ramen for every meal to save money. There are plenty of free online resources available for you to use through your college years, and beyond. Don’t forget to take advantage […]
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Your freshman year in college is an exciting time full of new experiences. But unless you have access to a trust fund or are super organized, it’ll also be a time when you are constantly short on time and funds. This can make staying on top of beauty and fashion trends challenging. It can be […]
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The brain may not be a muscle — well, maybe it is for some people — but it can nevertheless be strengthened in the same way as a bicep or tricep. (Philosophically speaking, of course.) By incorporating mental exercises, your brain training can be not unlike physical training, gradually making you stronger and adding to your stamina […]
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As you rise up the educational ladder, you’re going to notice that teachers become more and more enamored with assigned reading. It’s as if they think the only thing you have time for is to open a book or turn on a Kindle. Keeping pace isn’t easy, especially if reading isn’t one of your preferred […]
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The ever-present desire to cut study time is as old as the public education system itself. Ever since human beings began forcing themselves to get out of bed three hours too soon five days a week, so they could go sit in a classroom, students have been trying desperately to find ways of getting by without […]
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The future of education is talked about at length every day in blog post after blog post, policy proposal after policy proposal. For the longest time, politicians have promised positive change but no one — Democrat or Republican — has been able to prescribe a path to success that we can all agree on. In […]
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Deciding to reward yourself may seem selfish and unproductive, but it can actually create in you a better member of society — someone capable of doing more good with their life and work than if you played it the other way and never decided to reward yourself with anything. In past posts, we’ve been big proponents of […]
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Have you ever been to a movie with a highly critical friend — or perhaps you ARE the highly critical friend — and you walked out with one of you saying something to this effect: “That movie was so lousy. I know I could write a better script than that”? The reality is that it’s […]
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Anyone going into the military is familiar with the ASVAB test, but after years of being given strictly as a paper-based test, the option now exists to take it as a CAT (or Computer-Adaptive Test). What this means is that the test will reconfigure the questions it decides to ask you based on your correct […]
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