A Guide To Living Your Best Academic Life

The most dreaded part about college is finals week. Finals week is like a student's Super Bowl. It is the time period in which students apply their semester's worth of preparation and showcase everything that they have learned in final papers, projects, or exams. Finals week can be an extremely busy time, making it easy for you to get lost and fall behind of your responsibilities. Based on my personal experience with finals week, I have developed the following tips to help you power through finals week: Get sufficient nourishment and sleep. Develop a schedule. Focus on one course at a time. Speak and think positively. Get Sufficient Nourishment and Sleep Credit: Pexels Credit: Pexels The key to your success in finals week is getting sufficient nourishment and sleep. During finals week, it is easy to forget to eat when you are trying to study for multiple final exams. You are probably pulling all-nighters during this week as well. Without nourishment ...

During this global health crisis, we are required to practice social distancing by staying home. Home represents a place of comfort, where we relax and break away from the stresses of the outside world. However, for students, home has now become our new place of education, forcing us to bring academic stress home on a full-time basis. Conducting your academic studies from home can make it difficult for you to separate your comforting home life from your demanding academic life. As a result, the comfort of your home may distract you from fulfilling academic requirements, finding yourself struggling to build the drive and energy to complete your academic assignments. Instead of completing homework, you may want to stay in bed, as if it were summer vacation. To help you maintain the energy and drive to conduct your academic studies, I have the following three tips: Eat and Drink Energizing Foods.  Go to Bed Early.  Remain Active. Eat and Drink Energizing Foods Credi...

The one word that brings significant fear to a college student is "presentation." As a college student, you will be delivering many presentations for your classes. If you have stage fright like me, delivering presentations can be overwhelming. Credit: Pexels I have done many presentations during my three years (and counting) in college. However, every time I present, I still experience significant nervousness and fear. Despite experiencing this constant fear, I have learned some techniques that not only help me to get through presentations but also to deliver an effective message. The following tips will enable you to deliver the best presentation, even in the midst of fear: Develop an Outline of the Topics That Will Be Covered. Use Notecards. Keep the PowerPoint Or Multimedia Presentation Simple. Practice, Practice, Practice. Maintain Your Calm. Develop an Outline of the Topics That Will Be Covered Credit: Pexels Developing an outline is an effective w...

As you all know, the world is currently undergoing a major health crisis. This pandemic is negatively affecting various aspects of society, including the supply chain, small businesses, and, more importantly, people. Our academic life as students has even been impacted by the dangers of this pandemic. Credit: Pexels Due to this crisis, we as students have been ordered to engage in remote learning by completing our academic work at home via online services. Transitioning to remote learning can be a stressful and overwhelming task. If you're like me, you may prefer a face-to-face class environment and need some time to adapt to this new class structure.  Amidst this negativity, we need to spread positivity now more than ever. My way of spreading positivity is helping you all have a successful transition into remote learning with the following tips: Continue to Follow Your Class Schedule. Dress Up. Have Communication with Professors. Avoid Distractions. Remain Active. ...