If you’re taking the SAT tomorrow, don’t forget these wise words:
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
– Winston Churchill
Illustrations by Jennifer Orkin Lewis Read More →
If you’re taking the SAT tomorrow, don’t forget these wise words:
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
– Winston Churchill
Illustrations by Jennifer Orkin Lewis Read More →

I love a good quote.
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” –Aristotle
“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge. ”

If you’re anything like me…..
….E V E R Y T H I N G takes way longer than you think it will.
With regard to the SAT (or I should say, with regard to learning anything, and Read More →

From Inside Higher Ed about a new book called Uneducated Guesses:
Then Wainer examined four colleges that let students submit SAT or ACT scores, and for which first-year grades were also available: Barnard and Colby Colleges, Carnegie Mellon University

I’m reading a book about memory, called Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer, and I’ve come upon a section about the work of Dr. Ericsson:
“What separates experts from the rest