Aggie Voice
Reinventing the System
Grad school doesn't leave much room for frivolous time and when finals loom near, that tolerance tightens further. As students, we're under constant obligation to put forth our hundred percent. An elevated GPA means long hours spent hunched over studies, sometimes at the expense of personal needs, but does this ultimately help us?...
Aggie Voice
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.
Aggie Voice
1000+ miles under $ 150!; Tips for a perfect Spring Break Gateway…
My first blog was more centered around the Fall semester and the idea of finding the ‘family away from home'. Until the Spring Break arrives sometime in mid-March, most of us have survived through the gruelling mid-semester exams, the never-ending armada of homework. During the same exam time, I and my friends, and I suppose everyone is frantically making spring break plans. Sifting through various top destinations which will soon flood their social media accounts and then sadly realizing one can only spend so much. Furthermore, as grad students, most of us have only the Spring Break Friday as an official holiday which makes Thursday – Sunday, the most ideal time period for the break.
Aggie Voice
Want to be a POWER-ful writer? Well…here’s how!
Dr. Peter Elbow, an author and well-known theorist of the writing process, said “The precondition for writing well is… the ability to write badly and to write when you are not in the mood”. I think most graduate students would agree – at some point in time we’ve all written badly and definitely not been in the mood to write. So according to Dr. Elbow, we should all be able to write well, right?!?! Well, I’ve got a Texas A&M University resource which will make your writing POWER-ful and help boost your motivation, love, and productivity for writing!...