eNotes' editorial intern shares his tips of how to make the most of your high school summer. Or any summer, for that matter! I'm a huge Harry Potter fan. My grandma bought me the first book when I was 11, and from then on I read every book within the same week it was released.…
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Survivor: Finals Edition
Our top 10 study tips to help you survive dreaded finals week. You're going out on a date tonight. It's with someone you really like. You've been looking forward to this for several months. But there's a catch! You have to meet your date's parents first. You really would just rather avoid this ordeal and…
Your Major Isn’t All that Major
Yippee! You’re going to COLLEGE! You’re probably getting hours and hours of sleep because you don’t spend any time at all mulling over all the new, unknown, big, scary things that come bundled up in that word ‘college.’ No, you haven’t started thinking about your future or your career or what all that means for…
Tips from the eNotes Intern: Getting Over the Post-Winter Break Blues
Here at eNotes, our intern evidently doesn't pull any punches. Following are the straight up facts about the post-winter break blues (aka 'WAA') and how to overcome them with this six step program, straight from your fellow student's mouth: WINTER BREAK IS OVER. Ouch. That sort of hurt, didn’t it? I do apologize, I just…
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I have a child in junior high and a child in high school. Every day, both of them must wear their school-issued identification card on a lanyard around their necks at all times. The doors to their schools are locked at 8:30 a.m. After being checked out on a video camera and buzzed in, parents…
Why College Students Today Can’t Write
Today's post is brought to you by Braintrack.com, an online resource for university, college, and career searches. You can check out their blog here! College professors have been bemoaning the lack of solid writing skills in their students for decades (see this article from 1974 for proof), but statistics gathered over the past few years suggest that student…
Does “AP” stand for “Absolutely Pointless”?
My 12-year-old son began his first semester in junior high this year. In July, all of us parents were rounded up for a three-hour information seminar. We visited each of the "Pre-AP" teachers' rooms, a total of seven different potential course offerings. In every session, the message was the same: you enrolled your kid in…