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The First Year Five-Step Grade Acceptance Plan
And….we’re back. That was a short break—at least for those of us with kids following…
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Dealing with the Aftermath
The first-year students are finished with their exams now at my law school. The upper-division…
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Dealing with Test Anxiety: Now Is the Time to Start
As midterm exams come around, you may be hearing from students who struggle with moderate…
Getting Stupid
This last year as director of academic support was my first involvement with a year-long…
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The Ten Plagues Upon Law Students
It is Passover. And, after participating in two Seders this year (and sometime after the…
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Balancing Act
My friend Ellen Swain (Vermont Law School Academic Success Program Director) recently directed me to…
It’s the Majors
I once had a student whose husband was a professional baseball player; and when, during…
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Stress Relief at Last
Although I cannot claim to be an avid reader of Woman’s World magazine, nevertheless, I…
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You are what you eat, think and are merry about….
I’ve been re-reading the sixth Harry Potter book. When it came out over the summer,…
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Student Depression: Where Do We Come In?
At the recent annual meeting of AALS, James. J. White of the University of Michigan…