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 Break Your Phone Addiction
The last year or so has forced many of us to resort to social media as a means of social interaction. I, for one, became radically reliant on it to stay connected with family and friends that I was banned from seeing in person. Before then, social media wasn’t a Continue Reading
Top 50 Media Outlets for Personal Development
The search for high-quality, entertaining content is an arduous one. The information we consume is important and must be chosen carefully and wisely because it essentially shapes who we are. What you choose to surround yourself with, physically and mentally, defines you. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to select 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
Top 5 Ways to Motivate Yourself to Study
I really admire people who are consistent in their emotional state. You know those people who are just stable and have one or two emotions that they exude at all times? I specifically admire those people when these emotions are “energetic and motivated”. That said, even the most driven, hard-working, Continue Reading
How to Study for Finals: The Ultimate Guide to Acing Your Exams
To many students, studying for exams seems to be such a complicated and overwhelming process. Because of that, some go about it the wrong way and others just don’t bother at all. The two biggest problems I’ve noticed are: 1) not knowing how to study and 2) just not being 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