Situation 1: You are a freshman in college, you are in over your head and feel isolated and scared. New college students have a lot of stress, no doubt about it. There’s the pressure of studying, interpersonal relationships, housing arrangements,…
I decided to move from digital agendas and to-do lists to a more simple method using a paper notebook. I do still use some software (Evernote, Latex, Excel..), which I will cover in future posts. At the beginning it was…
“Frequent small pleasures are better than a few big ones.” Common sense would suggest that it’s better to have a lot of intense moments of extreme happiness rather than fewer, but researchers have found that this isn’t the case. In…
I’ve taught writing at several universities, both in the United States, and at U.S. institutions abroad. The principles of good remain the same whether you are in Orlando, Florida or Doha, Qatar. Begin with a clear thesis.This thesis should present…
Homeschooling is a wonderful opportunity to teach your children at home and not have them in traditional education. One small problem sometimes arises with homeschooling. Homeschooling activities become the focus of the family unit and end up merging with family…
At the same time, the method allows the students to be self learners and the teachers to become facilitators. From its earliest beginnings, distance learning has changed rapidly and at the moment it seems to have become the trend in…
If you are going to school and working at the same time, you may find it difficult to get through all of your studies because of your work schedule. Even if you have the flexibility of online classes, you still…
Study groups can be incredibly helpful in college, but they can also be a distraction if you aren’t careful with them. You can find study groups for just about anything nowadays, even if you take classes online. Most of the…
If you are a college student in a continuing education program, you may be familiar with the concept of dead week. This is the week right before finals, and it is supposed to be reserved for studying and nothing more.…
No matter whom you are or what your major is, you are going to have to take notes to get through college classes. You may be able to get away with not doing that in an online college because you…