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
A Forbes.Com Reporter is Looking for Students to Interview
Looking for a Few Good Sources A reporter I know at Forbes.com is writing an article on college students, stress, and the importance of having … Read more
Monday Master Class: Conquer Cramming with the Same Day Rule
Bad Problem, Worse Metaphor Are you a procrastinator? Not necessarily a psychologically-scarred, can’t start work if your life depended on it because you resent your … Read more
Is Low Stress Med School Admissions Possible?
Note to Readers: I’m hitting the road this afternoon for a four-day trip. Because of this, I’m posting Friday’s article one day early so that … Read more
Dangerous Ideas: College Extracurriculars Are Meaningless
Microsoft Doesn’t Care About Clubs In college, I spent a lot of time writing. I started as a humor columnist for the student newspaper … Read more
Monday Master Class: How to Start Down the Long Road from Chaos to Efficiency
Restarting is Hard to Do Something that surprised me last fall, when I began to work more closely with individual students on productivity issues, was … Read more
