By Clarissa Guillen
The podcast currently has 13 episodes available.
Feeling like you’re not good enough because you’re not a straight-A student? Well, I’m a firm believer in C’s getting degrees – and that average grades are more than good enough! Let’s have a powerful, transformational (and HONEST) discussion all about grades in college!
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Finding Brilliance in the B’s Episode 1: Not Smart Enough for College
Finding Brilliance in the B’s Episode 2: Life has no place in the lecture halls (and other lies)
Feeling like you’re not good enough because you’re not a straight A student? Like there’s no space for the YOU outside of the textbooks, lectures, and note-taking? Do you struggle to maintain relationships or have enough space for yourself, outside of your academic career? You’re not alone with this – it’s time to have a powerful (and HONEST) discussion around balancing college and your relationships! Tune into Episode 2 of my Finding Brilliance in the B’s series below:
Finding Brilliance in the B’s Episode 1: Not Smart Enough for College
I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn’t): Making the Journey from “What Will People Think?” to “I Am Enough” by Brene Brown
Brene Brown’s TED Talk: Listening to Shame
Brene Brown’s Website
Ever felt not smart enough for college? What if you could change that belief and transform your college experience? If you’re looking at your life right now and your whole world is consumed in feelings and thoughts of “I’m not smart enough, productive enough, good enough” tune into Episode 1 of my Finding Brilliance in the B’s series.
How To Overcome Perfectionism (and the anxiety it causes)
I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn’t): Making the Journey from “What Will People Think?” to “I Am Enough” by Brene Brown
Brene Brown’s TED Talk: Listening to Shame
Brene Brown’s Website
Tony Robbin’s TED Talk: Why We Do What We Do
What if you could change your study habits and effortlessly achieve your goals this semester? On this episode of SheRocks@College LIVE, I’ll be walking you through my step-by-step method to change your study habits to ones that stick and transform your college experience!
Ep 013: How indecision affects your studying
Ep 014: The power of making decisions ahead of time
You know how you always wonder, “what do I need to do to study for this exam and when do I need to do it?” We’re going to solve that question once and for all because I’m going to help you decide which study plan to follow in college.
Whether you’re taking Art History, BioChem or Spanish, by the end of this show you’ll have the exact steps you need to create a simple study plan to help you pass your projects, exams and papers in all of your courses.
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This is the study plan that will keep you sane this semester
Ep 001: How to revamp your study routine in a weekend
Ep 013: How indecision affects your studying
Ep 014: The power of making decisions ahead of time
On this episode of SheRocks@College The Podcast, we’re talking about the power of making decisions ahead of time as a college student and how it will transform your self-confidence, goals and your life. Making decisions (and sticking to them) is all about commitment to yourself, confidence in your decisions and deciding ahead of time who you are going to be.
Ready to harness the transformational power of deciding? Tune in to this life-changing episode!
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If you’re finding it hard to pick a major, a note-taking method or even decide whether to attend class or not, you’re struggling with indecision. Indecision unconsciously holds you back from living your best life and even causes you to self-sabotage your success. In this episode of SheRocks@College LIVE, we are going to dive deep into how indecision affects your studying and your entire college experience. Tune in and let’s get you out of indecision and into alignment!
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Study School Q&A
Study School Info Page
Some college women seem to have it all together. They earn awesome grades, they’re working full time, maintaining relationships, saving money and living their best lives. If you want to become one of these college students this semester, start by adopting these 10 habits of highly successful college women.
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Feeling stuck and confused on what to focus on to achieve your goals this semester? Tonight we’re breaking down how to make succeeding in college inevitable.
It always surprises me when students refrain from setting goals because they don’t want to disappoint themselves if they don’t hit them.
But by choosing to not set goals, you’re disappointing yourself ahead of time. Because you’re basically telling yourself you’re not capable of great things.
Goals help us to stretch ourselves, to think differently about ourselves to imagine and believe the best in ourselves. They help us reach our full potential.
I have a full goal setting series here on my Youtube channel that I recommend you watch if you want help setting your goals for this coming semester.
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Stressed out about your finals? Not sure how to finish the semester strong? You and every other college girl out there.
In order to properly prepare and study for your final exams, you’ll need to be able to answer these five questions.
Question #1: What’s going to be on your exam?
One of the things you want to find out is whether or not the exam is cumulative or will your professor only test you on the last few week’s material. What percentage of the exam will be old material and what percentage of the exam will be new material? This will help you plan out how much time to spend on each topic being covered on your final.
Question #2: What’s the format?
Not all final exams are sit down multiple choice exams, some professor will ask you to write papers, give presentations or write several short essays during your final exam period. You’re going to need to know how your final is going to be structured so that you can study appropriately. The way you prepare for a multiple choice exam is very different than how you prepare for a short answer or even an oral response final.
Question #3: How will you study?
You should base your studying on how you will be asked to apply the information. For example, let’s say your history final is 5 short essays covering the several wars you discussed throughout the semester. With short essays, you’re not going to be required to remember minuscule details but rather the overarching themes and key events that happened during the war. The best way to study for this type of exam is to verbally walk through those key events and themes or even practice writing an outline of those key themes and events.
Question #4 What are your weak areas?
I will say this once, final exam study week is not the time to try to learn a semester’s worth of information. It should just be a review of everything you’ve learned up until this point. With the exception of information that was covered with in the past 2 weeks.
Do not try to cram a whole semester’s worth of material into an all-nighter, it won’t work. You’ll end up failing.
FOR STUDENTS WHO’VE DONE PRETTY WELL THIS SEMESTER: Chances are that if you missed a majority of question on a particular subject that you will see those questions again on a cumulative final exam. In order to make sure you don’t get those questions surrounding that topic wrong again, you need to fill in your knowledge gaps.
The way I like to figure out my weak topics is by gathering all my exams for that class. I organize them from lowest grade to highest grade. Then I go through and identify the questions I got wrong and what topics they were on. These topics are where I focus most of my attention during my final exam study period. You want to spend the most amount of time on either the stuff you didn’t know or the material which is going to be the biggest section on your final exam.
You don’t have to go back to your book and read those sections again, try maybe attending some tutoring session just for help on those specific topics or looking for some simple to digest material online.
FOR STUDENTS WHO ARE BORDERLINE PASSING: If you haven’t done well up until this point, it’s actually wiser to try to focus on really mastering the newer content covered within the past 2-3 weeks or the information you have a decent understanding of from your past exams. This will allow you to get as many of those questions right as possible, which will increase the chances of passing the final.
Question #5 When will I study?
I suggest that you start studying 3 to 7 days before your final exam. Mark the date for all of your final exams in your planner and count 3 to 7 days from that. That is the date that you start studying for that particular exam.
When I say studying, what I mean is quizzing yourself, seeing how much of the information you actually
The podcast currently has 13 episodes available.