Academic Resources
Time Management and Productivity
- How Good Is Your Time Management
- Doodling Helps You Pay Attention
- Working With Different Productivity Styles
- A Challenge to Make You More Productive
Managing Your Time on the Internet
- Rescue Time: track online activity, block websites, set alerts
- Minutes Please: online timer, pop-up alert, and access block
- Focus Lock: timer and application lock
Academic Wellness
Explore a variety of mindful meditations:
- UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center
- University of North Carolina Meditation & Mindfulness
- 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
- Calming Exercises to Help You Sleep
- Sleep, Learning, & Memory
- Healthy Sleep Tips
- 12 Tips to Sleep Soundly Every Night
- 9 Things Impacting Your Sleep
- Let Music Serenade You to Sleep
Food to fuel your brain
- 75 Healthy Snacks
- Nutrition as a Stress Management Tool
- Healthy Foods to Eat for Brain Power
- 9 Tricks to Healthy Eating, Even When you are Busy
Stress management
- Great Tips for Proactive Stress Management
- A Guide for Managing your Stress
- Not all stress is bad and some stress can be helpful- Good Stress, Bad Stress
Test anxiety
Study and Test Prep
- Assess your Study Habits
- Check your Study Skills
- Tips for Building your Study Schedule
- Recommendations for Organizing your Study Time
- Four Steps to Understand How you Learn
- Interactive Tips for Better Test Taking
Focus and Procrastination
Focus Aids
More Resources
- Time Management
- Learning Exercises and Games
- Problem solving
- Managing Stress
- Motivating yourself
- Collaborative/cooperative learning
- Thinking critically
- Reading critically
- Reading difficult material
- Writing research papers
- Organizing projects
- Math tests
- Seven stages of writing assignments
- Writing lab reports
- Writing position papers
- Taking notes in lectures