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Self-Awareness: A Crucial Skill for Finding Work You Love

After my sophomore year of college ended, I entered what I thought was going to be a maze of wires, servers, and ethernet ports. I had landed an internship in the computer networking department of a big financial corporation, and as boring as that sounds, I was pumped to get to work and to keep learning more. […]

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The Science Behind Getting Better Sleep

I’ve always been a morning person. While some people view the idea of getting up at the crack of dawn as more horrifying than an angry honey badger covered with glued-on steak knives, I’ve been willingly doing it since high school. Even after my mornings stopped being filled with scheduled obligations – classes, summer jobs […]

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Skill Building, Project Planning, and DIY

Every time I walk into Home Depot I get this inexplicable urge to buy every tool in sight. Do I need them? Nope. Do I live in a rental house that I have barely any leeway to change or upgrade? Yep. Do I do most of my work on a computer, surely shaming the warriors and […]

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9 Tips for Becoming a Great Public Speaker

When I was in 6th grade, I was picked to read a poem I had written aloud at the front of my English classes. My poem was about a kid that got sent to the principal’s office, and I remember myself wishing that I’d get sent to the principal’s office myself so I wouldn’t have to read […]

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Our Habits, Routines, and Motivation Strategies

Running College Info Geek has become a pretty complex job. Aside from constantly fielding calls from governments around the world who mistake us for superheroes (it’s an easy mistake to make, I know), there are a lot of tasks we each juggle during any given week. For my part, I’ve got videos to script, film, […]

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Stress Strategy: How to Use Stress to Your Advantage

Did you know that broccoli is actually toxic? It’s true; every time you eat one of those delicious little trees, you’re subjecting your body to a small amount of toxicity. Oddly enough, though, that’s a It’s one of the reasons that broccoli is a “healthy” food. You see, our bodies and minds have adapted to the harsh […]

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5 Questions: Most Valuable Life Skills, Class Selection Strategy, & Switching Majors

It’s high… time we answered some of your questions again! (And, technically, it’s also high noon somewhere.) In today’s 5 Questions episode, we’ll be analyzing several different perplexing conundrums, including challenging ourselves to use more than five 3-syllable words in a row. Just kidding – though, if you’re keeping score, I just got seven. All of […]

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The Happiness Equation (Ep. 117)

On October 20, 2015, my YouTube channel hit 100,000 subscribers. I was a milestone I’d been dreaming about for a really long time, and I was so excited to finally cross it. In my mind, it was the very definition of the YouTube “big leagues.” The moment came: I hit the refresh button and saw […]

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How to Stand Out If You Have a Low GPA

Nightmare scenario: you’re looking at your transcripts and your GPA is not where you want it to be. Internship-hunting season is coming up. What do you do? Pray to the Many-Faced God? Hitchhike your way to the Argentinian countryside, become a goat herder, and never talk to your parents again? Switch places with genetically altered guy so you […]

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