If I Could Do it Again: Jessica Crowell
Jessica Crowell resides in two very different worlds. After graduating from the University of North Carolina last spring, she continued her role as the Chief … Read more
Dangerous Ideas: What If Everything We Thought Was True About Productivity Was Wrong?
The Surprising Hardness of the Simple I just observed something distressing about my behavior. The absolute most simple component to my productivity repertoire is to … Read more
Follow a Sunday Ritual
In How to Win at College, I emphasized a simple, but surprisingly effective piece of advice: Create a Sunday Ritual. I learned this trick from … Read more
How to Make Resolutions that Stick
New Years is overrated. Fall is the time to make resolutions. For students, this is obvious — Fall denotes the new school year. But it … Read more
Around the Web: Can You Train Your Brain? (Answer: Yes)
The Sharp Brains blog has a fascinating post about the trainability of your brain. There was once a time when scientists thought that brain function … Read more
How Unfair is the College Admission Process?
There’s an interesting op-ed in the New York Times today: The New York Times | The New College Try Professor Jerome Karabel argues that selective … Read more
College Chronicles #8: Welton’s Has His First Week of Classes, Encounters Resistance to His Non-Idiotic Study Habits, and Realizes Things are Going to Get Worse (Time-Wise) Before They Get Better
This is the eighth blogisode of College Chronicles, a blog-based reality show in which we follow three real students struggling to balance academics with the … Read more
Coming Up This Week…
Another interesting week coming up here on Study Hacks. The line-up includes: More College Chronicles. We hear about Welton’s first week of classes. The If … Read more
