From bestselling authors Shawn Achor and Michelle Gielan in a recent Harvard Business Review piece, “Resilience Is About How You Recharge, Not How You Endure“: “A resilient child is a well-rested one. When an exhausted student goes to school, he risks hurting everyone on the road with his impaired driving; he doesn’t have the cognitive resources […]
Read More >Tips on how to stop hovering
Some ideas spread far and wide quickly, then seem to fizzle just as fast. In 2009, one book ignited the barefoot running craze. In just a few months, runners everywhere were going natural or tiptoeing along in form fitting, paper thin shoes that looked like a cross between scuba gear and rubber gloves for your […]
Read More >For counselors: What’s new with the Common App?
The folks at the Common App held a free webinar for counselors yesterday: “What’s New With The Common App: Enhancements.” If you didn’t get a chance to attend, our counselor Tom Barry shared the following summary for our Collegewise counselors. You won’t need to find your way around a brand new Common App with your […]
Read More >Mental list vs. physical list
Crossing an item off a to-do list feels great. You get to physically delete it and enjoy the mental freedom of knowing it’s done. But in today’s world of incoming media, distractions, and constant multi-tasking, adding an item to your to-do list—and getting it out of your head—can bring almost as much relief as crossing it […]
Read More >Expressions of appreciation
Last October, I invited counselors, teachers, students, and parents to take a page from what had become a viral, press-garnering video of Oak Park High School’s Positivity Project, where each teacher identified one student who inspired them and made them want to come to work every day. Cathy, a counselor at Hastings High School in Hastings, […]
Read More >Manage your time like the great athletes
“Interval training” is a model where instead of one long but moderate effort, an athlete will exert many brief, high-intensity efforts during a training session, each followed by a short rest. Pioneered in the 1930s by German running coach Woldemar Gerschler, who led multiple runners to Olympic medals, interval training has since been the dominant […]
Read More >Enjoy the off-season
At Collegewise, our students work on applications and essays during the summer before their senior year. We’ve found that it’s a lot less stressful for students than trying to fit that work in around their academic and activity commitments during the fall. Those applying to rolling admissions schools can actually start their senior year with […]
Read More >Talk it out
There are times that I’m reminded to follow a piece of my own advice I’ve shared here. Yesterday was one of those times. As I shared last week, I’m rewriting the “Careers” page of the Collegewise website, starting from scratch. I want the copy to convey the right messages, to sound like us, and to […]
Read More >On your permanent record
As first reported in The Harvard Crimson and later covered in national news, at least ten incoming Harvard freshmen had their offers of admission revoked this week after they posted offensive memes and messages in a private Facebook group chat. Not surprisingly, it’s generated a lot of discussion amongst counselors, ranging from expressions of relief […]
Read More >Learn more by talking to yourself
Just in time for finals, here’s a tip from Harvard Business Review: research shows that people who explain ideas to themselves out loud learn almost three times more than those who don’t. Skeptical? Study skills author Scott Young shares how the technique worked for a Nobel Prize winner.
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