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A tutoring session should not feel like school after school. If a student has already spent six or seven hours sitting in classrooms, the last thing many students want is another adult talking at them for an hour while they quietly nod and wonder when the session will end. Effective tutoring is different. A good tutoring session is personal. It is active. It responds to what the student needs that day while still moving toward larger academic goals. Most importantly, the stud

Starting something new is exciting. It can also be intimidating. Think about the experience of entering a new classroom, beginning college, returning to school after many years, taking an online course for the first time, or encountering a subject that seems completely unfamiliar. A new student may be thinking: Will I be able to do this? What does this professor expect from me? What if everyone else knows more than I do? What happens if I make a mistake? Do I belong here? Bef

You open your phone for five minutes. Someone is traveling through Italy. Someone else just received a promotion. A friend posts pictures of a seemingly perfect family. An influencer has the perfect body, home, morning routine, relationship, and career. Twenty minutes later, you put down your phone. Nothing in your actual life has changed. And yet, somehow, you feel different about it. This is one of the most important questions we should be asking in the age of social media: