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
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
