Academic Resources
Advising
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
- 5 Relaxation Techniques for Better Sleep
- Calming Exercises to Help You Sleep
- Sleep, Learning, & Memory
- Healthy Sleep Tips
- 12 Tips to Sleep Soundly Every Night
- 9 Things In Your Dorm Room Impacting Your Sleep
- Let Music Serenade You to 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
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