How To Make Friends In College

09/24/24 • 13 min

Are you having a hard time making friendships that actually last more than a couple weeks? Have you moved to a new city and you're starting all over, and now you're a little rusty?
Today I'm going to talk about the way Covid lockdowns have prematurely aged teenage brains, and disrupted the friendship making process.
I'll also talk about ways to combat this change, and how to make friends in college. l'll discuss different clubs and activities offered around campuses, as well as how to use the city itself to make friends. At the end of it all I'll discuss an interesting paper only recently published that details the changes to the brain cCovid lockdowns had on teens and young adults.
The paper discussed in today's episode is called, "Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mental Health and Brain Maturation in Adolescents"

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The Art of Rewriting Your Notes

Are you struggling to retain the information you hear during your lectures? Are you trying to decide if rewriting your notes is really worth it?

Today I'm going to talk about how to take notes during your lecture so you actually remember the lecture. I'll discuss the difference in recall maximization when comparing hand writing notes versus taking notes on your laptop. And, I'll talk about how to close that gap if you want to continue to take notes on your laptop. Spaced repetition will play a key role in this episode, and I'll also touch very briefly on cognitive schema.
The paper I cover today is from the journal of Contemporary Educational Psychology published in 2018, titled, ''Note-taking and science inquiry in an open-ended learning environment".

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Today I'm talking to my friend - and fellow community college graduate - Irene, AKA Camps. In this discussion style episode we'll be talking about the study schedules of two ADHD night owls, why we valued our community college time so much, finding jobs in college and working through school, the AP classes scam, and how to make friends amongst it all.
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