What does it mean to be a top 1% student? Statistically speaking, being in the top 1% of your class means earning a higher grade point average than the remaining 99%. Culturally, a top student typically refers to someone who is an academic and extra-curricular all-star. Either way you choose Continue Reading
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Academic Success 101: Strategies to Ace Your College Courses
If you are a student looking to achieve academic success in your college courses, this blog post is for you! Academics at the post-secondary level are challenging. The content is nuanced, courses are fast-paced, and the volume of work is absurd. Academic success often comes at extreme costs for most Continue Reading
Top 10 Self-Development Books for University Undergraduates
It’s very tempting to go through higher education (college or university) and think you are mentally growing just because you are learning a lot in your school courses. In truth, my experience has been that university takes an emotional, mental, and sometimes quite a physical toll unlike anything else I’ve Continue Reading
How to Make the Most Out of Summer | Summer Prep
When the final bell of the school year rings around mid-June, I always feel a newfound vivacity sprouting from deep within my soul. FINALLY. I could go do what I want to do now. Freedom at last. It’s not that I hate school. It’s that summer finally offers me an Continue Reading
How to Wake Up Early (Without Feeling Tired)
So, what’s really the secret to waking up early? If I can be 100% transparent right now and save you whatever time it takes to read this article, the answer would simply be: to go to bed early. But, it’s not really that easy to tell anyone, including yourself, to Continue Reading
21 Simple Ways to Be Healthier in 2021
A person’s life isn’t what happens to them on the outside; it’s not the tragedies, misfortunes, illnesses, or injustices they encounter. Rather, it is their response to all of the above. In 2020, we all learned that there a whole lot of things that we don’t (and can’t) control. But Continue Reading
How to *Actually* Achieve Your New Year’s Resolutions
When it comes to upholding New Year’s resolutions, most of us disappoint ourselves. We run out of motivation, we let negative self-talk get to us, or we procrastinate and ignore the decisions we made. In any kind of goal-setting, most people are fueled and ready to rock at the beginning, Continue Reading
25 Tips You Need to Know Before the New Year
Hello, hello, 2021. Thank you for trotting towards us with utmost lag and deceleration. We all appreciate your mighty efforts. Good bye, 2020. Thank you for branding our collective bodies and hearts with the lifelong physical reminder of your once horrid existence. You will forever be etched in our history Continue Reading
How to Get Your Life Together
The struggle is real. But why have we made it a struggle? Why is almost everyone in the modern world in an internal war trying to get every aspect of their life together? It scares me because the search volume for this phrase is greater than any other topic I’ve Continue Reading
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Students
Being an effective student doesn’t happen overnight, nor does it happen unintentionally. All effective students have a strategy, meaning actions that they do consistently and intentionally. What, then, are these habits that produce highly effective students? Well, before we begin, it’s important to define a few things to clear up Continue Reading