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New Friends and New Perspectives
Time is one of those things that always catches me off guard. How quickly a day goes by, a week, a month, or a year. It’s hard to believe that half of the semester has passed and that it’ll be over before we know it!
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Managing Stress
Business School brings people from different walks of life. Some leave high-paying investment banking jobs while others resign from dangerous, exciting engineering professions. Yet others leave the honorable teaching profession to come back to school themselves...
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Disappearing Trains of Thought
Raise your hand if you have ever gotten only part of the chorus of a song stuck in your head. Something around the range of five to ten seconds long sounds about right. I am on the verge of exasperation when I can't remember the rest of the lyrics that go with it, so I am stuck humming the same four chords for minutes on end. Then when I try to look up the song on Youtube or Spotify, I can never find the song's name to listen to the remainder of it. The way our brains prioritize some musical selections and not others is beyond my scope of knowledge. I expect it has something to do with the catchiness of the arrangement since I have the same habit of remembering bits and pieces of television commercials as well. While recalling a larger portion of the chorus of a song is beneficial for karaoke nights, it brings to light a vital question for students. If there was a way to memorize better, we should employ that method in the way we study.