by Ruth Bomar | Jul 9, 2018 | Blog
Korbin was on his way to his history class. The week before he had turned in a paper on a topic he liked and understood. He had even turned it in on time. On this day, the professor returned the paper with a C and Korbin was very disappointed. Later that week, when we...
by Ruth Bomar | Jul 5, 2018 | Blog
Make a plan and work the plan. Summer semester can be both intimidating and discouraging especially when you would rather be on the beach. That’s what Sylvia (pseudo-name) felt when she and I started academic coaching six weeks ago. Sylvia, a junior at a major...
by Ruth Bomar | May 3, 2018 | Academic Coaching, ADHD Coaching, Success
Summer is almost here and visions of a road trip to the beach dance in your head. Reality-check. You are enrolled in a summer semester. Who’s idea was it anyway? Maybe you didn’t do well on a calculus course and you decided to retake it to improve your...
by Ruth Bomar | May 3, 2018 | Blog, Finals
This is what we know about the time of day and brain power. First, our thinking power varies throughout the day. We are quicker, slower, more creative and less creative in some parts of the day than others. Second, these ups and downs in our mental...
by Ruth Bomar | May 2, 2018 | Finals
Preparing for finals means you must face the ups and downs of your day. Most of us have heard about an internal clock in each of us called circadian rhythms. (from the Latin circa which means around and diem which means day. Think carpe diem – translated Seize...
