Academic Resources

TIme Management & Productivity

How Good Is Your Time Management? Take this assessment and find out
Doodling Helps You Pay Attention
A Challenge to Make You More Productive
Habitica: Habit-building and productivity app

Study and Test Prep

Check your Study Skills: Effective habits for effective study
Tips for Building your Study Schedule
Recommendations for Organizing your Study Time
Four Steps to Understand How you Learn
Ten Tips for Terrific Test Taking: Interactive tips for better test taking

Goal Setting

Beeminder Accountability: Automated Goal Setting App

Focus and Procrastination

How to Improve Concentration
Can’t Focus? Try These 7 Simple ADHD Concentration Tips

FOCUS AIDS

Pomodoro Method
Focus@Will: Reduce Distractions with Music

Managing Your Time on the Internet

Freedom: Help protect your time and attention from online distractions
FocusMe: Schedule focus sessions, block websites, track time, set breaks, etc.
Rescue Time: Track online activity, block websites, set alerts
Minutes Please: Online timer, pop-up alert, and access block

Academic Wellness

Explore a variety of mindful meditations:

UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center: Meditation Podcasts
University of North Carolina Meditation & Mindfulness: Meditation 101 & Mindful Activities
UNC Relaxation Audio Sessions
6 Mindfulness Exercises You Can Try Today
Calm: A mindfulness app for clarity and peace
Headspace: A gym membership for the mind

The importance of sleep

Food to fuel your brain

75 Healthy Snacks– Great snack ideas to consider during finals or simply when you are busy
Nutrition as a Stress Management Tool
Healthy Foods to Eat for Brain Power: Food to boost concentration and performance
9 Tricks to Healthy Eating, Even When you are Busy

Stress management

Great Tips for Proactive Stress Management
A Guide for Managing your Stress
Good Stress, Bad Stress: Not all stress is bad and some stress can be helpful

Test anxiety

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