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College Chronicles #3: Meet Leena, the MIT Junior Looking to Change her (Academic) Ways

January 26, 2023September 10, 2007

This is the third blogisode of College Chronicles, a blog-based reality show in which we follow real students struggling to balance academics with the rest … Read more

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Monday Master Class: Downgrade the Importance of Writing in Paper Writing

January 26, 2023September 10, 2007

The Mystery of the Paper Grade When you sit down to take a test, you likely have a good sense of the grade you will … Read more

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College Chronicles #2: Meet Welton, the Ultra-Committed Harvard Junior

January 26, 2023September 7, 2007

This is the second blogisode of College Chronicles, a blog-based reality show in which we follow real students struggling to balance academics with the rest … Read more

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If I Could Do it Again: Melissa Adelman

January 26, 2023September 7, 2007

When Melissa Adelman graduated from UNC last May, she faced a hard choice. One month earlier, she had entered a major business plan competition with … Read more

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Constructing Beautiful Study Guides

January 26, 2023September 7, 2007

Gideon over at Scholastici.us just posted a study guide he generated to help prepare for a German test (pdf available here). I’m blown away by … Read more

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Dangerous Idea Revisited: Sorry Paul Graham…

January 26, 2023September 7, 2007

My goal with the Dangerous Ideas series is to be provacative and shake loose some interesting discussion. I think I definitely succeeded with this most … Read more

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Dangerous Ideas: Sorry Paul Graham, I Think it Does Matter Where You Went to College

January 26, 2023September 6, 2007

[UPDATE 9/7/07: Welcome new readers. Before continuing, I want to point out that the “Dangerous Ideas” series on this blog aim to be purposefully over … Read more

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Q & A: How Many Courses Should I Take?

January 26, 2023September 6, 2007

From the reader mailbag: You gave the advice, “Drop classes every semester,” to avoid bad classes. How do you decide what is an ambitious schedule … Read more

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Cal launched the "Study Hacks" blog at calnewport.com in 2007, and has been regularly publishing essays here ever since. Over 2,000,000 people a year visit this site to read Cal's weekly posts about technology, productivity, and the quest to live and work deeply in an increasingly distracted world, while tens of thousands more subscribe to have these essays delivered directly to their inbox (see the sign-up form below). To read more, you can browse more than 15 years of past essays in the archive.
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