From the book, Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life by Winifred Gallagher:
Asian students actually achieve much more than their IQs would seem to predict, because they work so hard in school. Thanks to their culture’s stress on academic achievement
How We Learn
IQ: What Does It All Mean?
Home Life
bird by bird
I been collecting questions and making flashcards out of them over the last few months, but now I want to take them down, bird by bird, before I’m “immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead.”*
They’re all valid Read More →
Home Life
Grade Inflation
Enjoying a perfect summer Saturday afternoon with an iced coffee and new book that just arrived in the mail:
College Admission: From Application to Acceptance, Step by Step
It’s an excellent resource by Robin Mamlet, a former dean of admission Read More →
Writing
The Dreaded “Option E”
I was so relieved to find out that I’m not the only who lives in fear of Option E:
Option E (aka the dreaded “No error” option) is the bane of most students’ existence on this section. They
