Review: Personal Development for Smart People by S...

How many of you have heard of Steve Pavlina? He is well known for his personal development blog in addition to his personal experiments on things such as raw foodism and polyphasic sleep (see his blog if you want to know more), Steve is certainly an interesting guy. Lately, he has been working on his first book, Personal Development for Smart People, which I have been looking forward to for a while now, after he...

10 Ways to Cram Successfully

Sound familiar?–It’s Sunday night. You’ve had a long, fun weekend of…things. Then, oh no! You’ve got a test tomorrow morning. It’s the end of the world, and you should just give up, bribe your professor, and then maybe flee the country, right? Nope. With these 10 tools, you might just be able to rock that test tomorrow. A disclaimer: Studying only the night before a test really isn’t...

Derek Sivers on Academic Success

Derek Sivers is the musician and entrepreneur behind CD Baby. CD Baby is a little online record store that sells albums by independent musicians. [In•de•pen•dent: (adj.) Not having sold one's life, career, and creative works over to a corporation.] This year he resigned as an employee, but remains owner (a la Tim Ferriss). Derek returned to his alma mater to deliver a speech to incoming first-year students titled...

What Teachers Make

I found this speech (originally a poem) by Taylor Mali and it just had to be shared! It is a brilliant reminder of why our teachers decided to teach… SlideShare Presentation  View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: education what teachers make) Youtube Video   N.B. There is some mild language used on one occasion. Just felt it should be pointed...

Staying Sane in College

Bio: Ali Hale is a graduate student in London, and runs Alpha Student, packed with tips, advice and ideas to help you get the most out of your time at university. You can grab the RSS feed here. When you’re juggling the demands of study with the need to scrape together enough dollars to eat something other than ramen noodles, life can get stressful. Here’s some ways to stop the pressure from building up ‘till you...