November 13, 2009
Study Break Time!
Hello fellow students, another Friday, another study break! This site has been a guilty pleasure for years! To the point where I’ve cut this site off through leechblock, save for the weekends. Newgrounds is a website where you can find thousands of great little flash games absolutely free!
Here are a few of my personal favorites:
Dad game: A hilarious game about a lovable little character that turns mentally insane and goes on a killing rampage, enjoy!
Portal Defenders: GREAT game from the guys who came up with the Newgrounds site. Old school button masher that will make you laugh and isn’t too long so you don’t become addicted.
Air Defense 3: Probably the greatest ‘defense’ game of all time, you blow a ton of stuff up and get great upgrades. After about 10 minutes it really starts to become epic.
Check out the other games they have as well and DON’T become addicted. But if you do become addicted, you should probably check out a free chapter of 30 Minutes A Day To A 4.0 GPA so you can manage your addictions and school at the same time. You can get a free chapter by checking out my study tips page.
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November 6, 2009
Study Break Time!
So I was sitting down with a student last week and he’d been having some difficulty with achieving his version of academic success. This guy was stressed, and I mean really stressed. He said he’d been having stomach pains and had been grinding his teeth due to the stress he’d been having trying to get his last course up to an A average. So, as I always do I started doing a study audit, going through all the stuff he’d been doing and this guy was doing everything I’d been teaching him. He had an excellent study schedule, had accountability backups, kept his social space and study space separate etc. I came to the realization that this guy’s problem wasn’t studying enough it was studying too much. So I started asking him, “when was the last time you put everything away and just did nothing all day.” He had a unimpressed blank look on his face and I realized at that point that this guy was taking school way to seriously. So with that in mind I decided to help him out with his problem by ordering him to go out Friday night and not come back until he was either properly inebriated or stress free, whichever comes first.
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