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
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
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
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
Secrets Revealed: How to Get & Maintain a 4.0 GPA
When it comes to grades, most students think you either have it in you or you don’t. You’re either a top student or you’re not. But, that’s far from the truth. It’s not a genetic disposition. It’s simply a process that must be cracked down and repeated, day in and Continue Reading