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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 […]
Last winter I found myself staring up at a gigantic, abandoned brick building with three friends. The place was nestled in an industrial district, quite a few blocks from the “cool” part of the city. The windows were boarded up. Overall, it had seen better days. Two of them – Ryan and Michael – were running […]
We’re answering your questions today! In this reader questions episode, we’ll go over how to spend a break productively, whether you should dorm with a friend or a stranger, how to resist the siren’s song of multitasking, how to internalize the internet’s infinite self-help advice, and how to deal with intimidating professors. Most of these […]
Today’s episode is a conversation with one of my YouTube friends: Simon Clark! You might remember Simon from Episode 77, which was a reply of a livestream where we (along with our friend Jamie) answered questions about becoming an adult. I wanted to talk with Simon again on the podcast for a couple of reasons. […]
We’re answering your questions today! In this reader questions episode, we’ll go over how to make studying fun (including some detail on “interest links”, which I talked about in my video on how to read faster), unlearning bad techniques and habits, the value of honors programs, break/rest structures, and building a gym habit. All of […]
Can music help you study more effectively, or is it just a distraction? Well, as the journalist H.L. Mencken once said: “For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” I’ve been curious about this question for quite a long time, and I’ve always secretly hoped the answer came down […]
I absolutely love using shaky, barely-justifiable metaphors in my writing. I also love pilfering terms from one field and slapping them onto another. It’s fun, and the parallels don’t have to work perfectly as long as the general idea gets across. One such term I constantly subject to this literary abuse is entropy. In thermodynamics, entropy is […]
Earlier this year, I made a video that set out to answer a question almost every student faces: “Should I change answers I’m unsure about on exams, or stick with my initial answer?” For as long as I can remember, the prevailing wisdom has always been to stick with your initial answer. However, as the […]
Today we’re going to talk about coping with rejection, learning from it, and using it to improve in the future. As you go through life, you’ll face rejection of all kinds: people you find attractive will turn you down, job interviews won’t pan out, and scholarship committees won’t select your application. In this episode, I’ll […]
Questions have piled up in my inbox and now I’m answering some of them. One of the more interesting questions I received recently was, “Can you explain the process you go through to create podcast episodes (including getting guests?)” I think the process of creating the episodes themselves is pretty interesting, but even more interesting […]