by Sara Laughed | Apr 14, 2017 | College Help |
I love to find sources for a research paper. I have literally improvised a little song about how much I love my books while I drove home from the library. It’s a weird hobby, okay? I know. But doing it well can make such a huge difference in the quality of your...
by Sara Laughed | Apr 7, 2017 | College Help |
One of the biggest challenges students face in college is not being as productive as they’d like. College productivity ultimately comes down focus; if you can focus on what you need to do without distraction you can usually finish that task in a much shorter...
by Sara Laughed | Apr 4, 2017 | College Help |
I’m a big Facebook fan. I got my account when I was thirteen — ten whole years ago (what?!) and I’ve checked it almost every day since. I use it to connect with my friends on messenger, to find new articles to read, and even to manage a group of 5,000 blog...
by Sara Laughed | Mar 20, 2017 | College Help |
When I was in the seventh grade, I was put in a class for under-performing students. Yes, really. (Look at me now!) The purpose of the class was to teach us the skills we needed to be better students. One of the first things we learned was the Cornell notes method....
by Sara Laughed | Mar 17, 2017 | College Help |
Scheduling doesn’t come naturally to me. I’ve spent months on a single eight-page paper, and I’ve written a term paper in the three hours before class (#regrets). As you can imagine, neither of those are a great approach; if you take too long to write a paper, it eats...
