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May 21, 2025 Three Tips for Your Supplemental Essays
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May 14, 2025 Study Smarter, Not Harder: Strategies to Avoid Burnout
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May 12, 2025 Personal STATEMENT Tips for COLLEGE Applicants
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May 5, 2025 Scientific figures in the news
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April 14, 2025 How to make a statement personal
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March 19, 2025 Say it aloud: the power of recitation as a learning tool
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March 5, 2025 5 books to read outside of your English class
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February 28, 2025 Choosing between the dSAT and ACT: a parent’s guide
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February 22, 2025 How to introduce yourself in Japanese
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February 17, 2025 The science behind sleep: what to do the night before an exam
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February 16, 2025 Why you should set a schedule for the day before and morning of an important exam
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February 5, 2025 How to revise your essay
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January 31, 2025 Strengthen your outline: the clothesline method
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January 20, 2025 Tips for mathematics competitions
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January 13, 2025 No such thing as a stupid question
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January 10, 2025 Creative nonfiction and the personal essay
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January 6, 2025 Struggling to choose between colleges? Here’s one way to decide which school is your best fit
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January 3, 2025 A checklist for a strong history thesis statement
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January 1, 2025 Living the Harry Potter lifestyle: boarding schools
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December 27, 2024 The role of speculation in nonfiction writing
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December 18, 2024 How to get things done when you’re busy and overwhelmed
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December 16, 2024 Free your writer’s block in 5 easy minutes
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December 11, 2024 The art of cramming
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December 6, 2024 The fourth draft of the admissions essay
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November 29, 2024 Tips for learning Japanese
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November 25, 2024 How do robots work?
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November 18, 2024 Confessions from a former college admissions committee member
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November 13, 2024 From a B student in math to a Harvard biostatistics student: my journey
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November 4, 2024 One problem, solved five different ways
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October 27, 2024 It’s due tomorrow! Writing a great essay on a tight deadline
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October 9, 2024 Three freewriting exercises to get your ideas flowing
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October 7, 2024 How to break down a new application
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October 4, 2024 Do you know the correct way to read a graph?
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September 28, 2024 When and how you should start preparing for college admissions
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September 20, 2024 So many tenses! How to organize romance languages
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September 13, 2024 Beating standardized test anxiety 
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September 11, 2024 AP Statistics exam scripts
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September 9, 2024 Thesis statements demystified: part one
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August 30, 2024 How to write a strong first sentence in personal essays
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August 22, 2024 Why SAT math is not like regular math
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July 31, 2024 Rethinking procrastination 
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July 22, 2024 Tips for Latin learners from a PhD in Classics
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July 2, 2024 Keeping units in mind
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June 21, 2024 Making the most of your math textbook
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June 10, 2024 How to start researching a college
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June 7, 2024 Solving problems in AP Calculus and life
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May 31, 2024 Curiosity and fun: how to really learn a language
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May 6, 2024 Commonly confused homophones (and how to remember which is which) 
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April 24, 2024 Navigating the seas of proof-based mathematics: a guide to transitioning to higher levels
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April 22, 2024 What to do when you get stuck
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April 3, 2024 8 last-minute tips to improve your college application
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March 20, 2024 How to write about a work of art when you don’t know how to begin
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March 18, 2024 How to prepare for college interviews: what works and what doesn’t
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March 6, 2024 Why you should consider taking a gap year
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March 1, 2024 Baking bread with math
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February 23, 2024 6 tips for overcoming writer’s block
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February 5, 2024 Selecting quotes for deeper literary analysis
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January 26, 2024 An intro to neural networks
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January 19, 2024 Managing test anxiety
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December 15, 2023 How to ace the SAT math sections—by doing less math
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October 27, 2023 Approaching Shakespeare
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October 13, 2023 Evolution is mostly random
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October 9, 2023 The single most useful tactic I learned for standardized test prep
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October 6, 2023 How to figure out the kind of mentor you need
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September 29, 2023 What fiction teaches us about writing application essays
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September 27, 2023 The writer’s palette: color-coding as a revision strategy
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September 25, 2023 3 tips for a successful college interview
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September 15, 2023 Avoiding clichés in your Common App essay
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August 30, 2023 My top tip for improving performance on the ACT
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August 9, 2023 5 tips for managing writing anxiety
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July 31, 2023 Solving systems of equations by graphing (even after Algebra 1)
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July 17, 2023 Centrifugal force explained
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July 5, 2023 Tips for getting started on your Common App essay
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June 30, 2023 Attempting to become a theoretical physicist: initial steps
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June 5, 2023 The value of seeing: why everyone should make art
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May 29, 2023 How to revise your writing in 3 easy steps
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May 22, 2023 Making mistakes in math class
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May 19, 2023 Freewriting: the cure for writer’s block
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May 10, 2023 Does reading poetry make you feel grumpy? Lean into it.
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May 1, 2023 Understanding Demonstrated Interest
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March 27, 2023 IQE: Introduce, Quote, and Explain
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March 17, 2023 4 tips for better papers
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February 15, 2023 Breaking into research: a guide for undergraduates and high schoolers
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February 10, 2023 How to be a good mentee
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February 3, 2023 How to make the most of your college visits
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January 27, 2023 5 Tips for writing lab reports
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January 23, 2023 How to tackle 10 tough admissions interview questions
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January 11, 2023 How to make the college admissions process less stressful and more rewarding
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January 6, 2023 Writing advice: know your audience!
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January 4, 2023 How to apply to Brown University
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December 26, 2022 The power of Python
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December 21, 2022 How to write the Common App essay
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December 19, 2022 Why does chemistry seem so difficult?
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December 16, 2022 Avoiding the “Tragedy of the Commons" or the key to a killer Common App essay
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December 12, 2022 How to start writing about a piece of art
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December 7, 2022 Quantum Mechanics in 5 minutes
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December 5, 2022 How to approximate the value of pi
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November 30, 2022 Befriend your admissions anxiety
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November 25, 2022 Why learn to write? 
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November 23, 2022 How to participate in class without saying a word
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November 21, 2022 A college application guide for rising seniors
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November 18, 2022 Decoding and comprehension: the two components of learning how to read
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November 7, 2022 Stuck on your common app essay? Forget the prompts!
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November 3, 2022 How to write Stanford's Roommate Letter
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November 2, 2022 An introduction: Montessori in Clyde River, Nunavut (way, way up North)
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October 31, 2022 The three pillars of time management
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October 24, 2022 How to boost exam scores with the bucket method
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October 17, 2022 Tips for persuasive personal writing
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October 14, 2022 Reading Comprehension on the SAT Reading Section
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October 5, 2022 How to answer the Georgetown supplement
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September 26, 2022 The puzzle pieces of an argument
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September 23, 2022 How to tackle the Bowdoin supplement 
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September 19, 2022 How to answer Columbia's lists
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September 16, 2022 How to answer Yale's supplemental essays
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September 9, 2022 How to answer the University of Virginia's supplemental essays
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September 8, 2022 How to write the community service essay
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September 5, 2022 The “Why College X” Supplement
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September 2, 2022 How to write an essay about leadership
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August 31, 2022 JOY! Not just a character in Inside Out, but a supplement essay too!
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August 29, 2022 Who… are…you? How to write the identity supplement.
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August 24, 2022 How to write a college supplement about community
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August 19, 2022 The combo essay: not a lunch order!
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August 17, 2022 How to answer a challenge question for college supplements
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August 15, 2022 How to tackle the academic interest supplement
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August 10, 2022 How to prove the Pythagorean Theorem
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August 8, 2022 10 steps to completing your college essay before school starts
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August 3, 2022 Go from surviving to thriving during exam prep
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August 1, 2022 Where to begin on the personal essay
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July 22, 2022 How to get a top research internship in high school
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July 4, 2022 How to solve (almost) any math problem
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June 24, 2022 How to be a prodigy (in two very difficult steps)
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June 20, 2022 Application essays: the power of story
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June 17, 2022 The key to cracking standardized tests
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June 13, 2022 3 tips on how to find your first research mentor
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May 20, 2022 3 tips for more effective studying
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May 18, 2022 How to study for Chinese dictation quizzes
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May 11, 2022 How to ethically use WolframAlpha, Mathway, and Photomath
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May 9, 2022 Be a STAR: strategy for college interviews, job interviews, and more
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April 27, 2022 The dreaded “P” word
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April 22, 2022 Suitcases and schedule scrapes: “packing” more punch into limited study time
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April 15, 2022 Good writers start as good readers
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March 25, 2022 Where ideas come from
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March 4, 2022 To ask or not to ask? That should NEVER be the question
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February 9, 2022 How to use an outline to your advantage when you’re writing
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February 4, 2022 Introduction to Functions
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January 19, 2022 How to choose the best college for you
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December 22, 2021 Computer science buzzwords explained
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December 17, 2021 How to communicate better: unlocking language’s hidden meanings
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December 10, 2021 5 easy steps to good writing
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December 1, 2021 Why I love teaching English
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December 1, 2021 Why I love teaching Spanish
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December 1, 2021 Why everyone can love math
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December 1, 2021 What I love about psychology
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December 1, 2021 What I love about history
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December 1, 2021 A comprehensive college admissions timeline
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November 30, 2021 What I love about physics
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November 19, 2021 How to streamline a draft
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November 17, 2021 How to plan and organize historical research
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November 12, 2021 Tips for studying biology
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November 1, 2021 Working out your brain
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October 27, 2021 The PSAT: what it is and isn’t for your college application process
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October 25, 2021 To ACT or to SAT? That is the question. 
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October 13, 2021 Dreaming and designing: a short guide to your many lives
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September 20, 2021 A language study routine that actually works
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August 20, 2021 Reading is hard. But it doesn’t have to be.
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August 9, 2021 What to do for college applications as a rising senior (in August)
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August 2, 2021 Your college admissions reading list
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July 30, 2021 Breaking down the common app personal statement
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July 26, 2021 What makes a good descriptor?
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July 23, 2021 Why and how I learned seven languages (and am learning two more!)
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July 19, 2021 An international student’s guide to US college applications
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July 17, 2021 Degree or no degree, everyone should be a computer scientist
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July 9, 2021 What to do over the summer as a rising senior in high school
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July 7, 2021 Five steps to flawlessly edit your writing
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July 2, 2021 To succeed as a historian, question what you think you know
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June 30, 2021 How to organize a paragraph: the MEAL plan
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June 25, 2021 Academic Success vs. Personal Wellbeing
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May 31, 2021 How to remember what you read
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May 2, 2021 What is demonstrated interest? How do I show it? Why should I care?
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April 7, 2021 Tackling the AP English Language and Composition essays: part 1
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April 2, 2021 TOEFL Reading: inference questions
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March 31, 2021 College Alumni Interview do’s (and a few don’ts)
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March 30, 2021 How to get to know a college when COVID means you can’t visit
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March 12, 2021 How to balance redox reactions in acidic and basic solutions
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March 10, 2021 Top grammar errors to avoid
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March 5, 2021 The pigeonhole principle: a counting concept with countless applications
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January 27, 2021 How to use root words to learn vocabulary
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January 11, 2021 Using pKa to predict protonation state
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December 23, 2020 How to choose the right college essay topic
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December 18, 2020 How to revise your work
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December 16, 2020 Up close and personal: how to prepare for a close reading paper
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November 19, 2020 The Intermediate Value Theorem explained by everyday life
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November 17, 2020 What I learned about the writing process from bread baking
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November 11, 2020 How to approach initial value word problems
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November 2, 2020 S’more fun: simplifying limiting reactants using chocolate
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October 15, 2020 Why reading is the best way to improve your SAT score
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October 9, 2020 How to make sure you don’t fall behind during distance learning
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October 8, 2020 How to study for standardized tests like the SAT, ACT, and SSAT
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October 7, 2020 How to think like an AP Rater/Reader on the AP English Language exam
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October 5, 2020 How to revise anything
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September 29, 2020 5 Tips to make you a more successful writer!
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August 31, 2020 Remote vs. online learning
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August 7, 2020 Explaining eight common Chinese idioms (“chéngyǔ”)
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July 31, 2020 Six ways to brainstorm more effectively
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July 30, 2020 Editing for parallelism: one writing lesson from the proverb
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June 17, 2020 A beginner’s guide to analyzing historical documents
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June 3, 2020 Introductory statistics: are my data normal?
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May 23, 2020 Boosting your SAT score the second (or third) time around
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April 8, 2020 Tone and mood
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March 23, 2020 Studying at home: how to keep up with work while learning online
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March 11, 2020 How to fit you into your personal statement
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March 9, 2020 How to tackle sentence and paragraph sequence questions on the SAT
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February 26, 2020 Where do Taylor series come from and why do we learn about them?
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February 19, 2020 What is implicit differentiation and how does it work?
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February 12, 2020 But what is “dx” really? Calculus terms explained
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February 3, 2020 Two common grammatical mistakes to avoid in polished writing
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January 24, 2020 The music of Mandarin: learning the five tones of the language
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January 17, 2020 Authentic and vulnerable reflection in your college personal statement
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January 15, 2020 Confronting commas on the SAT writing and language section
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January 6, 2020 Becoming a good test taker
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January 3, 2020 Homonyms
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January 1, 2020 Grammar: one to 1
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December 27, 2019 Setting S.M.A.R.T goals
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December 25, 2019 What’s that sound? Diphthong (diptongo), hiatus (hiato), and understanding Spanish syllables
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December 9, 2019 Tackling unfamiliar problems on the SAT math sections
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November 25, 2019 Betwixt and between: difficult grammar rules explained
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November 11, 2019 Checking your answers in physics
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October 16, 2019 Top 5 pitfalls to avoid when writing the supplemental “Why college X?” essay
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October 9, 2019 4 ways to beat writing anxiety on the personal statement
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September 25, 2019 An application of calculus: finding optimal road networks
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September 18, 2019 Understanding elasticity of demand in economics
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September 2, 2019 High school chemistry: What is it? Can I be good at it?
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August 28, 2019 What physics equation sheets can do for you, and what they  can’t
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August 7, 2019 Mastering the SAT reading section
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July 29, 2019 Tips for studying effectively for the SAT and ACT
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July 17, 2019 5 tips to improve your writing
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June 7, 2019 SAT Reading: Which comes first? The passage or the question?
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May 29, 2019 What to wear on test day (seriously)
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May 16, 2019 How to spend the summer before your senior year of high school
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April 24, 2019 It’s all greek to me—how to build vocabulary from the ground up
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February 13, 2019 The #1 strategy when approaching the ACT Science section
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January 30, 2019 How to Write A Résumé In High School
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January 25, 2019 How to write a successful personal statement
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January 11, 2019 The key to mastering mathematics? Quit memorizing.
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December 28, 2018 What is a thesis statement?
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December 26, 2018 A guide to limiting reactant problems... using sandwiches
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December 21, 2018 College interviews: dos, don'ts, and common questions
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December 12, 2018 Electron configurations: a must know hack
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December 4, 2018 Formal charge: what they didn’t tell you in your chemistry class
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November 14, 2018 Tips for writing an exam essay in 80 minutes
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October 10, 2018 Writing a thesis and topic sentences in your personal statement
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October 8, 2018 The importance of keeping it simple: clear and concise writing
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August 24, 2018 Taking essays to the next level: how to write in your own voice
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August 20, 2018 3 ways to better analyze poetry
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August 15, 2018 7 essential tips for ANY standardized test
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May 18, 2018 The top strategy for the math section of the SAT and ACT
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May 11, 2018 An introduction to supply and demand
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April 25, 2018 How to have success as a student athlete: tips from an insider
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April 16, 2018 How to make introductory physics exciting (when you're bored out of your mind)
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April 11, 2018 A quick list of ACT literary devices
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April 4, 2018 Tips for getting a perfect score on a standardized math test
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March 28, 2018 To write a memorable college essay, tell a story
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January 26, 2018 Introduction to physics: the language of the universe
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January 10, 2018 How to write a killer essay in 3 easy steps
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January 5, 2018 My strategy for a perfect score: ACT Reading and MCAT CARS
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January 3, 2018 New Year’s Resolution: Get More Sleep
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December 22, 2017 What to talk about in your college admissions alumni interview
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December 20, 2017 Why you should opt-in to the (optional) alumni interview
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November 8, 2017 Solving the “I’m not good at math” problem
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October 25, 2017 How to draft a college personal statement in 4 easy steps
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September 20, 2017 The top 3 reasons you should study Latin
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September 15, 2017 6 ways to manage your time during your senior year
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August 28, 2017 How to solve kinematics problems: a guide to vectors
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August 18, 2017 How to select and contact your college application recommenders
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August 16, 2017 The key to selecting the right answer on the SAT & ACT: part 2
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August 2, 2017 How do I use punctuation on the ACT and SAT exams?
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July 21, 2017 Speech is silver, silence is golden: how pausing transforms communication
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June 26, 2017 ACT testing tip: how to identify main and subordinate clauses
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June 16, 2017 What is the phospholipid bilayer and what determines its fluidity?
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June 7, 2017 A guide to your teacher's feedback: common abbreviations defined
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June 5, 2017 How to address weak areas of your college application
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June 2, 2017 An introduction to blood types: genotype, phenotype, inheritance, transfusion, and more!
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May 22, 2017 Why does English borrow so many words from other languages?
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May 19, 2017 How to sketch any graph by eye
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May 8, 2017 What is moment and how do you calculate it?
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May 1, 2017 5 key differences between American and British spelling conventions
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April 25, 2017 How to write an excellent history paper
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April 21, 2017 Four mathematicians you should know
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March 8, 2017 How to solve kinematics problems, part 2
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February 27, 2017 Don't actually 'break a leg': common English idioms explained
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February 23, 2017 Breaking down nephron functioning into six easy steps!
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February 8, 2017 What is kinematics? Physics answers made simple
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February 6, 2017 Cracking an AP Bio biotechnology question
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January 18, 2017 Tips and mnemonics for memorizing amino acid structures
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January 9, 2017 How to Help Your Child with Math Homework: 5 Easy Questions You Can Ask
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January 6, 2017 Revolving curves to make solids
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December 30, 2016 The five most essential tips for AP Chemistry review
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December 24, 2016 What is the subjunctive tense in English?
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December 12, 2016 A list of common homophones and their differences
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November 26, 2016 How to decode word problems on the SAT
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November 18, 2016 Essential components to the personal statement: how to tell your story
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November 7, 2016 One for all and all for none? Grammatical rules for one, neither, and each!
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November 2, 2016 How to solve a 6 grid-in question on the AP Biology exam
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October 26, 2016 4 tricks for solving any physics problem
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October 21, 2016 Do colleges consider campus visits in their admissions decision?
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October 17, 2016 The most common English prefixes and their meanings
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September 21, 2016 Real AP Biology exam solutions
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September 9, 2016 Semi-colons, colons, and commas: how and when to use them
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August 31, 2016 5 books so good you won’t notice they’re helping you study for the SAT
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August 29, 2016 Three reasons why you should pledge to study without technology
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August 24, 2016 Three essential things to remember when citing parenthetically
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August 19, 2016 Solving a mystery: a new way to think about writing a research paper
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July 27, 2016 Punctuate your point, correctly: how to punctuate dialogue
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July 8, 2016 How to solve an AP Chemistry question that stumped most test-takers
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June 15, 2016 How video games enhance learning
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June 13, 2016 You could care less about grammar, but maybe you could care more
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May 23, 2016 The new SAT Reading section in focus: “Evidence Questions”
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May 4, 2016 Tips on How to Spend the Summer Before College to have a Successful First Year
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April 29, 2016 How to close read a passage of text
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April 27, 2016 Physics: learn, don’t memorize!
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April 25, 2016 Time management tips for a typical student’s daily schedule
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April 1, 2016 Brain hacks for studying: memorization and the Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve
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March 25, 2016 Odor perception on the AP Biology exam
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March 18, 2016 How to use logarithms to simplify Arrhenius temperature dependence
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March 7, 2016 How to study for AP Biology
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January 13, 2016 Four types of questions and when to ask them
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January 1, 2016 Choosing between AP and IB: an in-depth guide
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December 21, 2015 The SAT essay dissected: a step-by step guide
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October 22, 2015 Five ways to reduce procrastination while studying or writing papers
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October 12, 2015 What’s the International Phonetic Alphabet and why is it great?
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September 14, 2015 What books can I read to help me write my college personal statement?
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August 31, 2015 A review of Duolingo: is it really worth your time?
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August 21, 2015 Applying to the Best Prep Schools
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August 12, 2015 Converting Polar to Cartesian Equations in Five Easy Steps
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July 27, 2015 The ambiguous case of the law of sines explained
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July 17, 2015 What is the chemical bond?
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May 14, 2015 Inertia experiments and rolling motion part II
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May 8, 2015 Inertia experiments & rolling motion, part 1
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April 29, 2015 How to study for biology: 10 failsafe tips
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April 24, 2015 What are heuristics? Representative vs. availability heuristics
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March 13, 2015 A secret weapon for learning vocab
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March 13, 2015 How do I write a good thesis?
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March 2, 2015 The math tutor: simplifying probability
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January 16, 2015 3 anecdotes from the lives of great mathematicians
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January 10, 2015 The Language Tutor: Dispelling myths, stereotypes, and misconceptions
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January 5, 2015 3 tricks for physics standardized tests
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November 10, 2014 Writing tutor: transitioning from one paragraph to the next
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September 5, 2014 How to read and interpret economic graphs
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August 1, 2014 Should you take summer science courses?
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June 9, 2014 How to tell if a bond is inter- or intra-
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May 21, 2014 Biology Tutor: Breaking down cellular respiration and the Krebs Cycle
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April 21, 2014 How to remember the steps of photosynthesis
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