I’m Recruiting Students for a New Season of College Chronicles
The New Season Begins Last fall I launched an interesting experiment: College Chronicles. It was a blog-based reality show in which I followed three students … Read more
Monday Master Class: How to Use a Monotypic Inbox to Kick the Compulsive E-mail Checking Habit
E-mail Anonymous Some students have no trouble with e-mail. Others, however, find themselves constantly checking their inbox — in class, while reading, while studying — … Read more
The Unconventional Scholar: Don’t Discuss Your Major With Your Parents
The Unconventional Scholar is an occasional series, written in the style of my book How to Win at College, that offers unexpected but surprisingly effective … Read more
Bonus Post: An Author Who is Proud to Admit that he Sucks at E-Mail
E-mail Zero Strikes Again Once again I’m using Thursday to publish a bonus post about my E-mail Zero project. For the uninitiated, this short series … Read more
Case Study: How Skidmore’s Busiest Student Discovered the Secret to Happiness on the Other Side of the World
Imagine if the busiest, most overloaded student you know was sent to spend six months at a school that forbid hard course schedules or extracurricular … Read more
Monday Master Class: The Biggest Source of Stress that Most Students Ignore
Academic Hell I recently met a student whom I’ll call Amy. She’s a rising junior in the pre-med honors program at a top state university. … Read more
Dangerous Ideas: Beware of People Who Tell You Traditional Career Paths are Bad
The Drone Army Self-help blogger Steve Pavlina recently published an article titled: What If You Have Many Different Interests and Cannot Commit to Any of … Read more
On the Beauty of Doing Less
A Fable of Overachievement I received an interesting e-mail yesterday from a rising sophomore at a top 10 university. He described his high school years, … Read more
