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High School / College

Believe in Yourself and Other Advice from College Students to College Students

What would college students tell future college students to help them with the transition to college? I had my ideas as to what they would say when I set up the interviews of several of my former students over the past few weeks. What I didn’t expect was that...

College / Career

Changing a Major Shouldn’t Be Major

Bless the students (and the parents of them) who leave high school, enter college, study and learn, and graduate with one specific goal in mind. Maybe they have always wanted to be a nurse or wanted to study a foreign language so they can live and work in another...

High School / College

How to Be an Academic Superstar

Last fall, I taught a course called Academic Strategies. It is a one-credit-hour course at my university that covers topics such as note-taking, studying, and test taking. You would think that college students would run from such an elective course for something,...

COVID-19 / College

New Hopes, New Goals, New Year

“How did your fall semester go?” is a question I may have asked dozens of time over the past month to both current and former students. I also asked my own two college kids, who like to respond in one word answers such as “Good.” It may seem a...

COVID-19 / College

‘Tis the Season to Rest, Reflect, and Reset

I write this at the end of the l-o-n-g-e-s-t semester I have ever experienced. I am sure both my college-aged kids and my own students feel the same way. Somehow, some way, we are almost at the end. Thank. Heavens. Now that we have only a couple of weeks left before...

COVID-19 / College

Don’t Zoom and Drive and Other Tales from a COVID Semester

“I started yelling at him in front of the whole class. Well, not the whole class because only half of them were sitting in front of me and the other half were in Zoom. And I didn’t really yell because I was wearing a mask,” said a colleague of mine...