Posted on: 12 Jul 2023
By this point, you’re likely a pro at being assessed–standardized tests, school exams, musical tryouts, art projects. Such assessments measure your level of skill or knowledge on that particular day (or at that particular moment). They hinge on how much you’ve managed to master or memorize. However, none of the aforementioned assessments can tell you […]
Posted on: 24 Mar 2023
The difference between a major and minor can be captured with a comparison to a task that you hopefully engage in on a semi-frequent basis: laundry. To wash your clothes, you absolutely need some type of detergent or cleaning agent–choose not to add, and you might find yourself surrounded by a Pigpen-esque dirt cloud. On […]
Posted on: 22 Mar 2023
Baking brownies from scratch requires a certain level of precision. For the best result, ingredients should be at room temperature, cocoa powder should be weighed and sifted, and good quality chocolate is non-negotiable. In addition, your end result will inform the order of operations: shiny-top brownies require you to fully dissolve your sugar in the […]
Posted on: 17 Mar 2023
Auditing is synonymous with investigating or evaluating, and the word likely conjures images of an IRS employee sorting a mountain of tax documents, analyzing your information line by line to find discrepancies. Normally, this is a scenario one wants to avoid at all costs. However, in college, auditing a class can be a useful tool […]
Posted on: 06 Feb 2023
Think about learning to read. First, you master the alphabet, learning to differentiate between uppercase and lowercase letters. Next, you learn what each letter sounds like, how to blend the sounds together, and how to decode words. So, when you run across the word “sesquipedalian” for the first time as an adult, these early skills […]