Category: Counseling

  • It’s NOT Like Riding a Bike: Un-training our brains

    It’s NOT Like Riding a Bike: Un-training our brains

    Can you ride a bike? What if you haven’t ridden a bike in years? Sure, you may be a bit wobbly at first, but you would pick it back up again after time. Why? Your brain knows what to do. It knows the connections needed to initiate and maintain the balance. But what if we…

  • AP Pre-Calculus: Making AP Courses More Accessible

    AP Pre-Calculus: Making AP Courses More Accessible

    The accessibility of college-level courses in high schools is a hot topic in the United States and worldwide. However, for students to have the opportunity to take AP Calculus, students would need to start taking advanced courses in 9th grade—and many students are not ready to plan that far ahead when they are just starting…

  • I WAS NEVER GOOD AT MATH EITHER: Things NOT to say to your child

    I WAS NEVER GOOD AT MATH EITHER: Things NOT to say to your child

    How to talk to your child about math when you never liked math Every parent wants to help their child in school. But that can be much more difficult when children are learning subjects that their parents never felt very strong in when they learned it themselves. This issue arises most often in math, where…

  • Don’t Overlook these Five Colleges

    Don’t Overlook these Five Colleges

    What are the schools everybody applies to? I’m sure anyone reading this can name several people who wanted to attend Stanford, Harvard, Emory, and the University of Michigan. There’s a simple reason for this: they’re PHENOMENAL programs! People want to go to the best schools and get the best educations that they possibly can.  We…

  • Exploring the Potential of AI in Education: Thoughts on “Open Book, Open AI” Examinations

    Exploring the Potential of AI in Education: Thoughts on “Open Book, Open AI” Examinations

    I refuse to watch the Hamilton musical. It’s a strange rivalry to develop. The Red Sox-Yankees rivalry makes sense as Harry Frazee sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees to finance his own play, No No Nanette (which isn’t even that good of a play), so the Red Sox have viewed the Yankee success as a…

  • ChatGPT in Education: The Debate Continues – New York City Schools Ban AI for Student Use

    ChatGPT in Education: The Debate Continues – New York City Schools Ban AI for Student Use

    Each year, around the end of December, children all around the world gather together with their families for the most anticipated event of their years: Kurtis Conner’s annual Christmas movie review video. For those who do not celebrate this event or are unaware, Kurtis Conner is Canada’s most-mustached man, the mayor of Kurtistown, and a…

  • Practical Tips for Helping Your Child With Math Without Doing It for Them

    Practical Tips for Helping Your Child With Math Without Doing It for Them

    Teaching someone math seems like it shouldn’t be that hard. In theory, you should be able to just do the math in front of them, explaining your steps along the way, and then they will be able to do it too. But in practice, it’s not that simple. It turns out that teaching math is…

  • The Importance of College Degrees

    The Importance of College Degrees

    Quick! Off the top of your head, where did Albert Einstein go to college? Was it Yale? Harvard? If you said anything other than ETH Zurich or the University of Zurich then, sorry, you’re starting off this blog 0 for 1. But that’s alright! Babe Ruth struck out in his first at-bat, and he turned…

  • SAT Success: Zinkerz Students See Remarkable Score Increases in Verbal and Math Sections

    SAT Success: Zinkerz Students See Remarkable Score Increases in Verbal and Math Sections

    Karly, the Chief Information Officer at Zinkerz, an online education company, is thrilled to reveal the results of their students’ most recent SAT examinations in December. According to reports, the verbal portion of the exam was difficult, and some students struggled with the older reading passages included in the exam. Despite this, the scores on…

  • The Impact of AI on Education and the Future of Learning

    The Impact of AI on Education and the Future of Learning

    The dramatic advances in AI and synthetic reality are taking the world by storm. Recent articles highlight the progressive nature of AI. The web is being taken over by articles entirely written by AI, advertisements, essays… you name it, and the newest AI can do it. Only a few weeks ago, this was not the…