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Summer Enrichment Programs

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 […]

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Writing: Intentional Practice

“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 […]

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Self-Soothing Cheat Sheet

“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 […]

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Perception Control & Boundary-Setting

We’re going to start some work on actively controlling how other people (in college admissions offices) initially see us and set some boundaries on how they can contact us (so they’re less able to stress us out). Set Your Current Social Media Accounts to be Private (You may have done this already.) What to do: […]

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Drama Producing Truth

Part 1: Pattern, Sumbolon There is a common technique in dramatic storytelling of building the action of the story over a truth that has been hidden and fragmented. Over the course of the story, characters will encounters pieces of that hidden truth but it is only when they share their incomplete knowledge with each other […]