Mondays are ugly beasts, and, I hate to break it to you, but you’ve been giving them the twinkies.

You spend all of your money on Friday just to get a headache and try to woo Saturday with your mettle by watching all 6 Star Wars. Unfortunately, the weekends are out of your league. To make matters worse, Sunday is such a close friend of Monday that you have to make yourself go to church all day so you have the faintest glimmer of hope when you wake up with Monday’s granny panties draped over …

Book quizzes are common occurrences in any discipline which requires a fair amount of reading. Literature classes obviously require these most often, but non-fiction disciplines such as history and political science often have book quizzes, as well.

A non-fiction book quiz is quite different from a fiction book quiz. Since the subject matter actually happened, there is much less room for interpretation. Also, non-fiction works are generally harder to follow since the story tends to get bogged down by details. Luckily, it is these very details which will save you on …

Smart students hate studying. Having grown up in an education system that permitted them to treat school like a day job, the overtime that comes at college is often a surprise.

Every article I have ever read approaches this subject from the point of view that you are already in the process of studying for a big test. This is like comparing riding a bike for the first time with flying a jet; with the latter, you WILL crash and burn. Before attempting to do something challenging, you have to start small …

I can’t tell you how to make a great grade with only one night of study, but I can help you make it higher. I am assuming that if you are reading this it is because you have a test in one or two days, so if this isn’t the case go read about some ways to improve study skills for your next test, instead.

The process of cramming is counter-intuitive for your brain because your brain enjoys learning by experience over time. By trying to force everything in at once, you retain …

Albert Einstein, when asked what the most powerful force in the universe is, supposedly replied, “compound interest.” This apocryphal statement is even more true for young students. Investing when you are young will allow you to retire at what most would consider young, thus making the hoops you have jumped through in school more meaningful as the decades roll by progressively more rapidly.

The reason compound interest is so powerful is that time does all of the work for you. Some of you may not have heard the following example, so I will share a …

My freshman year was my most difficult year in college for several reasons. The primary reasons were due to my ignorance. Though today I cannot say much more about what I plan to do with my future, in 2005 I was even more confused. To exacerbate matters, I actually thought that I DID know what I was going to do. This led me to take on too many obligations some weeks, and to completely overlook opportunities other weeks.

It is my hope that I can elucidate how freshman year may be hard for those not …

I’m going to do bi-weekly posts on my current focus. In these, the waning hours of my undergraduate education, my focus will go back to the roots of this website: why school has been, is, or will continue to be hard. This is good news for readers, because I realize I have gotten off track in the past year.

For those in my class, feel free to peruse my other articles, but be sure to return to this link to scrutinize only the posts for this assignment.