If you’re anything like me, you’re fortunate enough to know what you’re good at. You also like to stay there, forever honing your proficiency in one or two areas to the point where you are an undeniable expert in these fields but helpless and hopeless everywhere else. As a pitiful example, you might be able […]
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Kintsugi: All the Broken Pieces
The majority of us tend to prefer sweeping our past mistakes and the shards of shattered dreams under the rug or else into the metaphorical dustbin where they remain out of sight and out of mind. A failed class, an embarrassingly bad job interview, or too many personal projects started and abandoned are commonly […]
So Extra: The Rundown on Extra-curriculars
Outside of the realm of academics, there are a number of ways to engage with your school community. At the start of each school year, clubs and extracurricular activities begin drawing in new recruits. Sports, the school newspaper, musical theatre, and language and science clubs to name a few all vie for students’ attention and […]
A Guide to Organization for the Perpetually Disorganized
It has often been said that the key to being a top student is organization. Most of the time, this statement rings true. The best students often hold themselves to rigorous schedules, sometimes detailed down to the half an hour with the day’s scholarly activities, from revising notes to completing a certain portion of an […]
The Restart Button: How to Fail
You, reader, are going to fail. Failure is hardly an uncommon phenomenon. It ranges from minor inconveniences to devastating disasters and makes its appearance in every aspect of life. More than anything, for most, it is a terrible feeling and so much so that it frequently becomes a fear unto itself. But what if failure […]
The Patrons of the Arts
A month ago, I sat down to dinner with some family friends. It had been a while since we’d last met and they made pleasant conversation, making offhand comments about how much I’d grown and drawing answers out of my parents regarding my and my sister’s educations. One of them finally turned to us and […]
