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I was sitting in an NYC hotel room four years ago when my friend Sean told me I needed a plan for jumping ship. Running a college website was a gig with an expiration date, he said. Eventually, I’d graduate, move on to the next stage of my life, and steadily lose touch with the […]
My first experience with journaling was in first grade. Our teacher made us keep a journal each day as a way to practice our writing skills. Not that we understood it that way at the time–it was just another assignment that no one particularly wanted to do. I’ve no idea if that journal survived through […]
Finals are coming up in a few weeks! Ever since I started making videos back in August 2014, I’ve tried to put a much heavier focus on academic topics than I did in the past. As a result, there are now a ton of videos, podcast episodes, and articles on College Info Geek that deal with exams […]
Let’s talk about the sleep schedule for a second. In a perfect world (as far as your body’s concerned), you’d go to bed when you feel tired, and you’d wake up naturally without needing an alarm. You’d let your sleep schedule be dictated by your body’s two sleep regulation systems: sleep-wake homeostasis, which acts like a sort […]
In the Japanese language, there’s a word we have no equivalent for in English – which literally means the act of buying books and letting them pile up, unread. Let me tell you, I’ve got my game on lock. Every time I set foot in a bookstore, I can’t stop myself from buying a new book – […]
Ever dreamed of walking into a bookstore and seeing your own work up on a shelf? There are two ways of going about accomplishing that dream. The easiest one is simply walking in and putting something you made right up on a shelf, and then walking out. Honestly, I’d do this with my mixtape, but […]
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 […]
Ever wondered how freelance writers get accepted to write for huge sites – and get paid for it? On today’s episode my guest is Aja Frost, an English major who does exactly that in her spare time between classes. Aja began writing for fun shortly after starting her freshman year at Cal Poly San Luis […]
This week, my friend Martin and I are discussing the books that did the most to change our lives. Each of us tried to pick four books (though Martin ended up with five, which is fair because I’ve read the last one). Some were influential in many ways; other might have had just one simple […]
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 […]