Final exams are around the corner and it is time for a game plan. Stress is good every once in a while but in excess it will certainly harm you. Follow these tips and make sure you get the best grades you can get. It is not about cramming or stressing, it’s all in time [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘productivity’
November 17, 2008
No job after graduation? Don’t freak just yet
My roommate is graduating in less than a month. The cloud of anxiety that hangs over her head made me start thinking about how nerve wracking this can be, especially if you don’t have a job waiting for you at the other side of the tassel.
The worst thing you can do is panic. You don’t [...]
November 10, 2008
This month, write a novel
I am aware that we are a third way through the month but this is still something you should try. Every year, aspiring writers around the globe set their minds to writing that novel they have been pushing around in their heads for so long. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, [...]
October 27, 2008
The art of studying
I happen to have a hard time concentrating, particularly when it comes to studying. Here is a list I gathered in case you are beginning to believe you have post-adolescent ADD.
Start by disconnecting yourself. Shut down your internet. (Yes, I know: the horror, the horror. Please go ahead and do it). Turn your phone to [...]
September 25, 2008
How to simplify your mind by de-cluttering your space
It is oh so easy to accumulate things that we don’t need. This consumerist society of ours makes us want to keep getting clothes, papers and everything that could be categorized as “stuff”, even if we have no practical use for any of this. In college, especially, whatever anyone gives to us as hand-me-downs [...]
September 16, 2008
The benefits of early rising
It’s hard for my friends to understand my reasons for waking up early if I don’t have class until noon. To them it is an abstract thought, and why shouldn’t it, after all we are in college. Staying up and sleeping in become part of the routine.
You see, I didn’t realize I was a morning [...]
September 8, 2008
A serene hello to you
Hello, I am Andrea, a journalism student in Florida.
I believe happiness to be a way of life instead of a longed-for destination. In college, we tend to lose our balance. Between eating all the wrong things, forgetting how to exercise and overdosing on coffee, it is easy to forget what you are here for in [...]
