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One of my personal goals for 2025 was to use my library card more as a means of trimming discretionary expenses on books. I am pleased to say that this has been going well for me as I’ve consumed more books in 2025 than I have in most years. To be fair: many of these […]
“Begin at the beginning,” the King said gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” *—Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Communicative writing is simple, clear, elegant, and engaging, typically prioritized in that order. Unfortunately, entertainment writing — from Shakespeare to Rowling — is the basis of how students are taught […]
Toady we are going to revisit the very basics of sentence structure to discover a wierd pscyhological trick that can corrupt your writing. I’m aiming for a more foundational starting point than usual since “If students don’t yet know how to write a good sentence, they’ll never write good paragraphs, let alone good essays” (Wexler, […]
Today we are going to set up our LinkedIn account that’s going to be our public-facing social media as we’re applying to colleges, then looking for internships, and hopefully starting a career or moving on to grad school. As we get started on this project, the important thing to remember about LinkedIn is that its […]
Going into the dead of winter is the perfect time to be making plans for summer, and if that’s the summer going into your Junior or Senior year of high school then you may want to consider a college-oriented enrichment program. These programs vary wildly in the quality and relevance of experiences they offer, so […]
TLDR Heartfelt Warm-Up First, get a pen and a piece of paper. Now: Let’s not talk about college for a moment. I want you to think of a social event, a party, something big enough where you must go with friends. So visualize something you’re aiming to go to, whether it’s like Prom or Coachella, […]
“I once did hold it, as our statists do, / A baseness to write fair, and labored much / How to forget that learning; but, sir, now / It did me yeoman’s service.” –Hamlet (Act 5, scene 2), on being able to write under pressure. You have said that you’re not confident in your writing […]
“The trick is to keep breathing.” –Shirley Manson That is a box-breathing diagram and it works very well for me, I’ve had it for at least a decade. Additionally, I can suggest these supplementals: Hopefully you’ve now got a few non-doomscrolling techniques for slowing down bad stimuli that might be disrupting what your brain knows […]
The job of college admissions is to accept enough applications from prospective students that the university will have an entire class cohort each and every year. Nothing frustrates admissions folks quite so much as losing a particularly well-qualified student to a competing university. Universities use “Early Decision” admittance to surface their best prospects and manage […]
TLDR Your raw materials The advice on how to plan a high school class schedule that maximizes college readiness is very consistent (and easily cross-referenced). You should plan to take 4 years each of these college-preparatory courses: You may not need all of this for where you end up going to college, but taking this […]