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12/10/2018
📑 GPS (Growth and Professional Success) Volume 12, Issue 15 Newsletter 📑 -
📑 GPS (Growth and Professional Success) Volume 12, Issue 15 Newsletter 📑 The 7 Dumbest Things Students Do When Cramming for ExamsEach year before the holidays, college students find themselves staring down the barrel of exam week. Fortunately, they're totally serious about learning the information and they aren't getting up from this desk until they do! Unfortunately, de...
12/03/2018
📑 GPS (Growth and Professional Success) Volume 12, Issue 14 Newsletter 📑 -
📑 GPS (Growth and Professional Success) Volume 12, Issue 14 Newsletter 📑 How to Create a Study Schedule for Your Final ExamsAs I write this, finals are right around the corner for most students… and here right now for others. So today, we’re going to talk about how to create an effective study/revision schedule for finals. What I want to do specifically with this vid...
11/27/2018
📑 GPS (Growth and Professional Success) Volume 12, Issue 13 Newsletter 📑 -
📑 GPS (Growth and Professional Success) Volume 12, Issue 13 Newsletter 📑 How to Avoid End-of-Semester BurnoutAs the semester gets whittled away, so too might your patience and sanity. Under the weight of papers, projects and finals, it's easy to feel like you're at the end of your rope. We've got a couple tips and tricks you can employ to help maintain your composure for...
11/19/2018
📑 GPS (Growth and Professional Success) Volume 12, Issue 12 Newsletter 📑 -
📑 GPS (Growth and Professional Success) Volume 12, Issue 12 Newsletter 📑 Ways to be Productive Over Thanksgiving BreakWith Thanksgiving break approaching quickly, most of us probably feel a huge sense of relief to finally get some time off from the pressure and demands from school. With that being said, it’s very easy for us to fall into a habit of doing nothing during...
11/05/2018
📑 GPS (Growth and Professional Success) Volume 12, Issue 10 Newsletter 📑 -
📑 GPS (Growth and Professional Success) Volume 12, Issue 10 Newsletter 📑 8 Tips That Will Make Writing College Papers Less Terrifying - As Told by The OfficeI have a love/hate relationship with choosing and registering for next semester’s classes. At the point of registration, I am more or less done with my current classes, so the prospect of fresh new classes is excit...
10/29/2018
📑 GPS (Growth and Professional Success) Volume 12, Issue 9 Newsletter 📑 -
📑 GPS (Growth and Professional Success) Volume 12, Issue 9 Newsletter 📑 8 Tips That Will Make Writing College Papers Less TerrifyingNo matter where you are along the writing spectrum, all writers struggle with many of the same obstacles. From student to professor, novice to expert, young or old, effective and interesting essay writing always presents its fair share of c...
10/21/2018
📑 GPS (Growth and Professional Success) Volume 12, Issue 8 Newsletter 📑 -
📑 GPS (Growth and Professional Success) Volume 12, Issue 8 Newsletter 📑 Your advisor is your academic planner: Ask them these 6 thingsAlthough many college freshmen don’t think too much about seeing an academic advisor, due to the fact that they have so many other things to adjust to, it’s one of the most important things that they should do within their first few m...
10/14/2018
📑 GPS (Growth and Professional Success) Volume 12, Issue 7 Newsletter 📑 -
📑 GPS (Growth and Professional Success) Volume 12, Issue 7 Newsletter 📑 Be a Tech Savvy StudentHow much technology do you use for your academic studies? Organizing schedules, taking notes and tracking projects… there is a plethora of apps that we can use to better organize campus life. Here are three tips to effectively utilizing technology to support your academic pu...
10/09/2018
📑 GPS (Growth and Professional Success) Volume 12, Issue 6 Newsletter 📑 -
📑 GPS (Growth and Professional Success) Volume 12, Issue 6 Newsletter 📑 8 Tips for Effective Time ManagementTime is precious, particularly when it comes to running a small business. Yet there are never more than 24 hours in a day. Some entrepreneurs respond to this fact of life with focus and purpose. Others freak out. Are you in the latter group? You don’t have to be...
10/01/2018
📑 GPS (Growth and Professional Success) Volume 12, Issue 5 Newsletter 📑 -
📑 GPS (Growth and Professional Success) Volume 12, Issue 5 Newsletter 📑 How to Relax and Ace Your College MidtermsSlackers, listen up. You might think that studying for a midterm is just like studying for anything else—you might even opt to skip the studying altogether and just wing it—but these exams can cover half a semester's worth of material, and they can be ju...
09/23/2018
📑 GPS (Growth and Professional Success) Volume 12, Issue 4 Newsletter 📑 -
📑 GPS (Growth and Professional Success) Volume 12, Issue 4 Newsletter 📑 4 Steps to Reading a Textbook Quickly and EffectivelyEffective textbook reading is a key study skill for student success. Nearly every class makes you read them. “Makes” is the right word here. “Requires,” “forces,” or “insists” will also work. Few people read textbooks unless they h...
09/17/2018
GPS (Growth and Professional Success) Volume 12, Issue 3 Newsletter 📑 -
GPS (Growth and Professional Success) Volume 12, Issue 3 Newsletter 📑 Why Internship Experience Is More Important Than EverCollege students need to balance work, friends, family, and assignments. It can be easy to overlook the critical importance of getting great internship experience. However, in today’s competitive economy, it is crucial that students make an inte...