by Nicole Bianchi | Oct 6, 2014 | Foreign Language, Productivity, Study Tips, Time Management
It’s easy to set goals. Sometimes it’s even easy taking those initial steps towards achieving them. Maybe we want to learn to play an instrument so we buy a guitar and sign up for lessons. The first few days are fun, but somehow life gets in the way, and...
by Nicole Bianchi | Mar 27, 2013 | Creativity, Productivity, Time Management
Even if you’ve never seen an episode of Star Trek, you’re probably familiar with one of the show’s most famous characters: Mister Spock. He’s the half-human, half-Vulcan first officer of the starship Enterprise. The highly-intelligent Vulcans...
by Nicole Bianchi | Mar 21, 2013 | Study Tips, Time Management, Videos
It’s the night before a final exam. I’m poring over the class study guide and wishing I had the ability to download all of the course material into my brain, Matrix-style. In the film, the main character Neo is hooked up to a giant computer. Download the...
by Nicole Bianchi | Mar 5, 2013 | Time Management
My Series of Unfortunate Events: I’ve always struggled with procrastination. In high school when a teacher assigned an essay, I often put the assignment off until the last possible moment. This led to frantic writing sessions several days or even the night...