Talking to a professor–out of genuine curiosity, a genuine interest in learning, a genuine desire to improve–is one of the smartest things a college student can do. While some professors are genuinely unapproachable, many are happy to talk to students. Here are five points to consider when you’re talking to a professor. 1. Be mannerly. Before…

A good article that I found recently is about memory, an important key for learning, working, many parts in our lives. The article by Ashish Ranpura tries to answer serveral burning questions – what are the different type of memories, how memory are made of, and can memory be improved. How we remember stuff -…

As a college professor, I’ve long been giving my students (what I hope is) useful advice. Here’s one of the best pieces of advice I know for doing well in college: Rule 7 The only rule is work. If you work, it will lead to something. It’s the people who do all of the work all the…

When you need to research and write papers, highly likely you will need to extract information from some hard-to-read books. After starting to read the first couple of sentences, you may stop and decide to skim through it quickly. After a while, you increase your skimming speed, but you still can’t get its contents. Virginia…

An user asked a good question in AskMetaFilter – How to be successful, productive and more organize in college. Some general tips are good suggestions from readers – such as: … Thoughts on scholastic success (some of these are mentioned above, but when you see them repeatedly, sometimes their value sticks better): Go to office hours. Preferably…

There is a pretty good how-to on using Backpack as a note taking tool for school. The good thing for using Backpack as note taking solution is that it can create a set of pages, tag them up with topics, and link them together easily. … While Backpack wasn’t necessarily designed to be the ultimate…