Whether or not you’ve been on a diet, you’ve probably heard people say that you should avoid carbs. That carbs are bad for you. But actually, you need carbs. As human beings, we need food to sustain and keep us alive.

Sharing your work can be daunting. Maybe it’s a photo you took, an article you wrote, or a school project you worked on for a semester. Sharing it with others, whether online or in person, can be scary. Why? Because it requires vulnerability. Once your work is open for the public to see and engage with, it’s open for discussion, feedback, and maybe even judgement. Arthur Kleon, author of Show Your Work, says that sharing your creative work can become a way to learn, find your audience, and improve your work.

Writing and creating a resume for the first time—or even the 10th time—can be confusing and difficult. You may have amazing experiences and skills, but how do you show it off to your future employers? How do you stand out among hundreds and hundreds of other people who may be just as qualified as you are?

Have you ever studied or read a textbook with a highlighter, hoping to highlight important sections, only to find yourself highlighting every other sentence? Yeah, we’ve all been there. Highlighting can be a fun and interactive way to study, but it can also distract you from actually studying the material you’re looking at.

We all want to be successful, don’t we? We can look at someone and attribute their success to their talent. And others, to their hard work. So which is it? Does talent matter more than hard work, or vice versa?

According to the Oxford dictionary, Parkinson’s Law is “the notion that work expands to fill the time available for its completion.” To put it simply, how long it will take you to finish a task (writing an essay, reading a book, drafting emails) depends on how much time you have to do it.

Sometimes we can feel like life is pulling at us from all sorts of directions: making time for your hobbies, hanging out with friends and family, committing to your work or school schedule. It can seem like 24 hours simply isn’t enough time to do all that we want to do…

Most of us enter into an interview preparing answers to potential questions we may be asked. And though that’s important, preparing questions of your own is also key to an interview (whether it’s for a job, an internship, or school admissions).

We’ve all been there. Knees shaking, heart thumping, hands sweating... The nerves of having to speak in front of a group of people can be overbearing. Even experienced professionals can still get nervous before a speech. It’s normal!

Life is not fair. We’re all born with different talents and skills: different things that make us unique. We tend to think that everyone else is always better than us. That they always have the upper hand. But Ash Ali and Hasan Kubba shows us that we can switch our mindset, to focus not on our disadvantages, but on our unfair advantages—which we all have.

College will demand a higher standard of writing from you. Whether you’re writing essays, articles, or scientific papers, the 5-paragraph essay you know and love in high school, might just not cut it for college-level classes. Moving away from a template we’re used to can be scary and challenging, but it’s also liberating. When you’re not bound by the limits of having 3 body paragraphs, you have so much more room for your thoughts and self-expression

We all know the frantic scramble of trying to get everything the professor is saying onto our notes. Your hands are cramping, your professor’s talking too fast, the slides are too far away... note-taking can be a hassle. But it doesn’t have to be.

We know creating new habits are difficult, but we are, in fact, creatures of habit. Atomic Habits by James Clear may give us the insight to our behaviors, and how we can change them to our advantage.