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From Ruth’s Desk: Insights & Strategies for Life with ADHD
Helpful articles, tips, and stories to support your academic and professional journey.
Resilience
We love a good story and if it is about people who find success in spite of tremendous odds, we applaud even more and shed a tear. Researchers have been investigating this human trait they have named resiliency for several decades. One seminal work of resilience was...
Four routines to improve your grades this semester
Research tells us that brain connections increase as we interact with our environment. That makes sense. Our environment influences us. The more involved we are with events, activities and people around us the more we learn and the more intelligent we become. Here is...
My journey to my PhD: studying is stressful.
Stress can detract from effective comprehension and sabotage memory. Today's video blog on My Journey to my PhD, I look at the role of organization in stress management. Watch me video and study like a pro. Click on this title: Stress in studying.
How to study like a pro
As a doctoral student, I am a professional student. I study "ad nauseum." That is whenever someone texts me and asks me what I'm doing the answer is usually "Studying." So here I am making a video blog about how I study. I hope you can gather some tips from my...
Routines
Who wants to read a blog entry about routines? Routines sound so well, you know, so routine. Please hear me out. A routine can really come in handy when the semester gets hectic (you know this will happen) and stress levels increase. Here's what I mean. A routine is a...
I Love January: the Best Time for Goal-setting.
This is a note I received in December. It warmed my heart to see my student reach her goal. Graduation is the goal of every college student. But how do you get from freshman orientation to your mortar board and tassel? I'll tell you. Set goals. Goal...
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
Charles Duhigg analyzes what comprises a habit. Something as simple as eating a cookie every afternoon at 3:30. He looks at cues and rewards; being part of a group and beliefs; use of will-power and making self-control automatic. In understanding how habits are built...
Finals and Mental Stamina
Studying for finals requires stamina. Here are some steps to follow to increase your mental stamina. Make the decision that you will study. Don't think about anything else but your topic for studying. If your mind starts to wander, study standing up. Study doing...
Studying for Finals-be an active learner
Studying for finals is more than just reading and re-reading your notes. Try these suggestions to engage with your information and become an active learner. Stop and ask yourself what did I just read? Talk aloud to yourself. Paraphrase the information in your own...
Studying for finals
How do you show off all you've learned during the semester? Here some step by step advice. Revisit the syllabus. Read the course objectives. This is what your professor wanted you to know by the end of the semester. That's now. So ask yourself do you understand the...
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