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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.
How to Talk with Your College Kid
Talking with your college son or daughter can be tricky. The roles you used to play are changed. You used to be the adult who had the final say so about major decisions but now you're more like an observer who pays the bills and hopes it all works out. But we both...
What Should You Do if You Earn a “C”?
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...
How to Get an “A” this Summer Semester
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...
Summer Semester Survival Secrets
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 GPA. Perhaps...
How to take the perfect BREAK during Finals week.
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...
How to take the perfect NAP during finals week.
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 the...
Procrastination or “Finding the Start Button”
The procrastination monster: every college student's challenge. You know what to study. Chapters. Power points. Lecture notes. Quizzes. You know how to study. Repetition. Check of knowledge. Explain the concept in your own words. Teach it to someone else. But where is...
Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science behind Why Everything You Know about Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
Summary written by: Ruth Angulo Bomar, Ph.D. "Sometimes what produces success is raw talent, sometimes it's the nice things our moms told us to do, and other times it's the exact opposite. Which old sayings are true and which are myths?" -Barking...
Inner Critic – Part Three
Over the summer, I enrolled in a Dissertation Coaching class which is part of my ICF coaching certification process. I am writing a blog series on issues that I faced as a doctoral student and the wonderful things I am gaining in my dissertation coaching class....
The Learning Brain – Part Three
Recently, I spoke at a wonderful Saturday-morning-gathering of learners, parents and educators. My topic was the three networks of the learning brain. In this three-part blog post series, I share with you, my blog readers, my notes from that presentation. When...
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