Advice for Smart Students on Succeeding in College
Source: thechoice.blogs Posted By: Anna C...4029 days ago
In my work, I’ve found there to be an enormous, though perfectly absurd, pressure for smart teenagers to appear smart, autonomous and academically self-sufficient at all times. So often, the attitude among high-achieving students is that they must be capable of independently surmounting nearly everything set before them. And nothing, in their minds, diminishes this veneer like asking for help — especially when so many of them have never needed it before.
Therein lies a maddening irony: our top....