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Planning for the next semester

For those of us who aren’t graduating, or have only one semester to go, it’s not unlikely that right around now you’re worrying about the semester to come. In my experience, sometimes this is super straightforward, and sometimes it’s a matter of running around like a chicken with your head cut off trying to scramble […]

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Subject Taxonomy

As is likely obvious to anyone who’s gone to school before, different subjects need to be studied in different ways. Studying a book for an English paper is very different than studying a theorem for a math test. There are times where this can get very granular – one class might be completely different from […]

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Making Time for Making Time

A couple of semesters ago, I thought it was the brightest idea in the world to sit down and make a super micromanaged daily schedule. When I would eat, when I would do homework and for how long, even how long I would spend getting dressed or brushing my teeth… every moment of every day […]

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