Education

Quit what you`re doing. Yes, I said quit! We all have the tendency to be lazy, procrastinate, and make excuses, but these adjectives do not get us very far when studying for a mid-term or final.

As a young child, before the Hannah Montana era, I can distinctly remember planning to be a pop star teacher when I grew up. I thought, teacher by day, popstar by night.

Social change is necessary to be able to properly evolve as a society that represents equality, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. There are many aspects of life that are negatively impacting positive social change.

I was always the little girl who played with motors and magnets on the kitchen floor. I grew to love art, legos, and The Way Things Work by David Macaulay; I pieced together model roller coasters and exhausted a multitude of science kits.

Was I on fire too? Of course not, but I felt a wave of this somewhat burning sensation flood my blood vessels, slowly streaming its way to my skin while collecting parts of my flesh that were perhaps still reactive.

My eyes have begun to droop, my heading nodding closer and closer to the table, my hands have stalled out, hovering over my keyboard, the words on my screen are blurry and indifferentiable from each other.

It is easy to sit back in envy of the students in college who never miss an assignment and completely ruin the curve for every exam. Those people have to be geniuses. Those students must not have a social life.

When most people hear the words academics they think about Math or English, but to me, it means my life. Not only does it mean my life, but my passion to keep on living.

These days, being a good student is trickier than ever before. With your cell phone always buzzing with the latest gossip and our professors always piling work onto your plate, it can feel impossible to keep up.

There are different types of writing in high school and college alike, differing in levels of difficulty. However, I personally studied under Veritas Press in high school and was required to write different types of academic papers.

In the seventeenth century, modern education was introduced by Lord Macaulay to educate Indians by getting them anglicized both culturally and intellectually.

`Do you have any tips for how to study?` As a tutor at Northern Virginia Community College, this is the question I receive from almost every student I tutor.

The most difficult academic hardship I have ever overcame happened to me my senior year of high school. School has always been enjoyable for me, I was always eager to learn. Placed in accelerated programs at a young age, I thoroughly enjoyed all o...

The Greek philosopher Aristotle would say that education is an activity of the State and has the function to lead one into happiness. From this understanding, he concludes that education leads a State into a social and high organized institution.

It is one of the greatest cliches of modern thinking to say that education is `the cure for poverty` or some other such grandiose claim. Though it is true that nations with higher levels of educational attainment have lower levels of poverty...

The compulsion to create stories is an omnipresent passion inside a writer. Each story, short or long, deep or simple, represents a piece of the inner mind and emotion of its author.

With education at the forefront of my mind, it gets difficult juggling life around that. The school takes a mental toll and many times I want a break and put off the assignments until I feel motivated enough to get them completed.