While surfing around the articles available online (looking for inspiration) I found this. I usually do not repost these articles, but I found this one interesting. Hope you enjoy!
Author: Brian Vaszily
If you are over the age of thirty and thinking about returning to college, you should know that you are not alone. Far from it!
Not [...]
I’m so excited! I have just installed one of the best tools a Non Traditional Student could ever have – ENDNOTE – Bibliographies made easy. This program is a must have for any serious research writing. If you are a Non Traditional Student just getting started back in college, I whole heartedly recommend this program. [...]
Non Traditional College Students are a unique bunch. There are more and more of us at colleges all around the USA. What I find troubling is that the great resource sites on the Internet are not reaching the majority of the Non Trads out there. I am tuned into this niche on the WWW and [...]
While reviewing some of my materials from my College Skills Class, I ran into a great description of how we FORGET information. This ties right into my post about Highlighting Notes and Textbooks. Review of studied materials is essential to actually learning it. The following five theories of forgetting are offered by psychologists to explain [...]
Surfed into a great article on the Psychology Today site. Written in the blog of “the Image Professor” by LisaMarie Luccioni. The Top Ten Ways to Impress Your College Professor “Don’t bring an apple; bring your best academic self”. This article is full of common sense items that I think most Non Traditional Students already [...]
Being the history geek that I am, my English Composition class is going to fulfill my needs in many ways. Aside from being 3 credits towards my baccalaureate core at Oregon State, I’m soaking up some wonderful historical tidbits from every lecture. My ENG 201 class, Early Shakespeare – 1587 – 1595 Shakespeare’s early years, [...]
My fall term begins on Monday the 28th. My wife decided that I deserved at least one last fling before hitting the books again. We are both very interested in photography (I blog about that too…here) so a couple of days of photo travel in Oregon were planned. Just like in 4th grade….”what I did [...]
Perhaps the economy is the blame, but I spent all morning in line at my community college bookstore. This was the first day that books were on sale and everyone was out to get the used (cheaper) books. I didn’t think for a minute that there would be a crazy long line. I spent too [...]
Now that most of us are into our first few days of college as non traditional students, it is time to start working on the study skills portion of this blog. I still have a small bit of summer break left (my classes do not start til 9/28) and I am getting prepared for Fall [...]
Just could not resist posting this one I found on you tube called The adult student
The site called “stumble it” is kind of a time leech, but I have found some great “blog fodder” there over the past few days….focus….focus….pull weeds….focus…
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