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From balancing your course load to forging relationships with classmates to extracurricular involvement, these are the tried and true methods to nail your career as a student.

Choosing My Path in a World of Expectations
I recently graduated high school. It is almost weird to say, because it's a whole new feeling; this is the time when you get to take your future in your own hands. You no longer have to take required courses; you can decide what you want for yourself, begin to create your own path to what you hope will be a successful future. As a young person, this time of your life can be terribly exciting. Here you are, with such a wide expanse of choices before you, ready to start the next part of your journey into adulthood. However, it doesn't always feel like you have boundless opportunities. Even the best of us, the kids who knew what they wanted to do since childhood, get caught up in the danger of expectations.
By C. L.8 years ago in Education
Reasons to Consider Boarding School
Boarding schools have unfairly garnered a sort of bad reputation among parents and children unfamiliar with the actual workings of these unique educational establishments. Sometimes considered to be on the more “extreme” end of private school options in the United States, boarding schools can actually provide a variety of unique opportunities to students and families willing to make the sacrifice of time and money. These reasons to consider boarding school cover the vast array of advantages that boarding schools offer, and they just might convince you to consider sending your child to finish their studies at a boarding school.
By Joseph D. N. Kendrick8 years ago in Education
10 Tips for a Successful Semester
In my five plus years as a tutor and college employee, I've worked with hundreds of different students of all levels and backgrounds. Some I see only once and others I see often, but I've seen enough of them to know what kinds of students are primed and ready to tackle their semester. These ten tips are essential for acing your classes, managing your time, and still having having fun, and if you put these into practice I'll have no doubt you'll have a successful semester.
By Kyle Foster8 years ago in Education
Why UCLA Is the Right School for Me
UCLA is simply the right school for me, and that’s the bottom line as I have done some research. UCLA has many programs available although I’m not sure if I want a joint law/masters. I know I want an MBA. But well, first comes a plain old law degree. What I want to do is help mentally ill people get SSI or a job, since we have it pretty difficult when we look for jobs. I can take paralegal classes at De Anza until I enroll in UCLA.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in Education
Top Tips for Getting Through Exams Alive
After 4 years of exam experience in the British education system, I felt I was finally qualified to express my opinions/advice/warnings about the big scary world of exams. Whether these are mock exams, GCSEs or A-levels, all of these tips and tricks should save you a lot of time, energy, and stress. Before you start wondering why you should listen to this probably straight A* student about how she conquered exams with her eyes closed, let me reassure you. I am an average student, with average grades, perhaps I had to retake an exam once upon a time (we don't talk about that). I was once a naïve student who believed I could learn my whole 2-year French course in 3 weeks (spoiler alert! I can not). I wish I had stumbled upon this info and actually digested it for the last four years, oh well, we live and learn. So, here is my unsolicited advice about how not to die between the months of May and June.
By Josie W8 years ago in Education
Why Creative Learning Is the Best Education
Humans are not meant to sit down in a classroom and consume information, expected to be able to retain it fully and to understand it intuitively. Yet everything is set up that way, and that is why many students find themselves at academic disadvantages. Our brains just don't work like that. We tend to soak things up better when we are 'under the influence' of something, like a drug. We are better at transferring information into solid knowledge when it actually reshapes our brains, and that is exactly what a drug does. Using this logic, drugs are actually good for you. They make you think differently. We could have the same results without drugs only if we made the school experience kind of like taking drugs, providing brain-reforming experiences so that you can get some skills and progress in the things you like.
By dd gg8 years ago in Education
Write to Succeed
Tutoring services at colleges and universities provide an invaluable service to students. It is generally included in the price of tuition and something every student should take advantage of, whether they are really struggling in their coursework or just need to work out one problem or idea. Some colleges only have one generalized tutoring center, but many also have a center dedicated solely for students to improve their writing. This raises the question, what exactly are writing centers? And how long have they been around?
By Kyle Foster8 years ago in Education
The Bedtime Story. Top Story - August 2018.
I’ll love you forever,I’ll like you for alwaysAs long as I’m livingMy baby you’ll be. These four lines are repeated throughout the children’s story Love You Forever by Robert Munsch, illustrating that unconditional love is due between children and parents in American culture. It does so by presenting the reader with illustrations of a child throughout relatable stages of youth and adulthood. As he grows, he becomes more of a troublemaker, but the repeated, almost musical refrain in the epithet above ends each page to remind the reader and the child in the story that they will be loved and forgiven for mistakes they make as they get older. The other side of this is that the mother grows as well and eventually gets old enough to where the child is an adult, holding her, and their roles are reversed. Finally, the boy in the story is an adult and holds his own infant daughter, ending the book with them both singing the same refrain.
By Jasante Howard8 years ago in Education
Congrats, Grad!
I really did not think I would miss college this much, and it has only been four months. Granted, all of the changes in my life that happened after already pretty significant changes (including the most uneventful birthday in the history of my 22 years on this planet, is 22 when birthdays become arbitrary?), took another big toll on my mental health, but those are stories for another time. Today is August 14, 2018, and is the second day of Week of Welcome and the third official day of Band Camp. I was in the band for eight years, maybe that has something to do with this huge hole in my chest. I get up in the morning, go to one of my jobs (soon to be just one and not two) and figure out how I am going to save up money, work hard, work OUT, eat healthy, have a social life, get enough sleep, hang out with my dog, and make friends in a new town hundreds of miles away from my variety of families.
By Kaylee Lawrence8 years ago in Education
My First Experience in Summer Camp
Have you ever had such a good time doing something while you keep doing what you love that you almost forget how you got to that one place? That's how it was for me, and it's all thanks to my high school drama teacher at the time, Daniel. He definitely pointed me in the direction of the summer camp that I would go to except at the time, I knew I'd be 17 years old when it started since he told me about it when I was 16.
By Don Anderson II8 years ago in Education
School Ruined My Love for Writing That I Didn't Know I Had
I’m going to school for creative writing. Poetry, actually. Why? Don’t ask me that. Growing up I was always in a reading program. Why? Well, my parents are Hispanic and I guess the school just assumed that they only spoke Spanish, therefore making me illiterate. That’s my only guess. Could be other reasons, but who really knows. After constantly being taken out of class to be timed on how fast I can read the dumbest short story, anything that involved reading or writing kind of freaked me the-fuck-out.
By Cianna Cruz8 years ago in Education
Conquer Kindergarten, Part II: Math. Top Story - August 2018.
In my previous article I described different ways parents can prepare their child for Kindergarten when it comes to literacy. Obviously, math is another skill students will work on throughout their entire educational career, and it begins in Kindergarten. As a Kindergarten teacher, I noticed many students were somewhat unprepared when it came to some math topics. There are many things a parent can do with a preschool aged child to give him or her a good base when it comes to math. Here are my suggestions on how to prepare a student to be a successful math student early on.
By Haley Peterson8 years ago in Education