Archive for the ‘Education 2.0’ Category
August 6th, 2009
How do you win a scholarship? Perhaps the easiest way if you have an essay is to enter the eduify.com Wunderkind Scholarship contest. Beyond doing what you can to get the most votes for the essay you submit to the eduify scholarship contest, you can also win other scholarships by taking the application process seriously. Put your best effort into winning a scholarship and you raise your chances significantly. Don’t send generic, canned scholarship applications out. Scholarship admissions committees can tell when an applicant is half-heartedly applying or not taking the application process seriously enough, so why risk losing a scholarship for lack of effort?
How do you take the scholarship application seriously? We’ve already shown you how to write a stellar scholarship essay. Now, we’ll show you how to put together a great scholarship package.
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August 4th, 2009
There’s no doubt about it: scholarship essays are a tricky matter to approach. Scholarship competitions often arrive at your doorstep during the last half of the school year, by far the most hectic time in the academic year when students are already bogged down with extracurriculars, final exams, looming end-of-year grades, not to mention stress-inducing standardized tests. More often than not, high-schoolers focus on their “real schoolwork” and procrastinate on the “optional schoolwork” of scholarship applications, to the point where they end up scrambling, up to the final hours, to turn in shoddy, half-hearted applications, essays, and personal statements to a host of scholarship competitions they actually would have had a good chance of winning, had they simply believed in themselves more and taken more time to do a job well done. Read the rest of this entry »
July 23rd, 2009
Aristotle is famous for saying —among many other things—that humans are “social animals.” Social relationships, which include professional relationships, are the foundation of our society; without them, we could not survive. Throughout your life—both in and out of school—you’re going to meet a lot of people. You will learn from many of these people and you will teach others. Such is the give-and-take nature of human relationships. When you’re young, you tend to be more on the receiving end of these relationships, and that is exactly what this blog post is about: how to take advantage (in a good way) of your relationships. Eduify has prepared this list of five types of people who can become great mentors for you and, in both the short and the long-term, help you meet your academic and professional goals.
Mentors, on a basic level, are people from whom we learn something that will be valuable to us in the future. Mentors are generally older than we are and have more experience than we do. Thus, the range of people who can potentially be our mentors and the range of things they can teach us are extremely broad. In addition to professing their expert knowledge to us and teaching us valuable life skills, mentors also make great references and they’re great people to approach when you need a letter of recommendation for your college applications. Such recommendations will help you to stand out from all the other graduating seniors when you’re applying for college, which will only help your chances of getting in to the college of your choice. Read the rest of this entry »
July 20th, 2009
What are 4 things to do on your college visit and 3 things to avoid doing? Read our tips after the jump! Read the rest of this entry »
July 16th, 2009
So you’ve been accepted to a university. It’s smooth sailing from here on out, right? You’re going to breeze through your senior year, live it up during your last summer at home, and move off to your college town. It’s a good plan, but if you actually want it to work, you’re going to have to dodge the senioritis storm.
Though it’s not an actual clinical disease (as the name suggests), senioritis is real. Perhaps it’s caused by the boost of confidence you get when you receive that college acceptance letter or maybe it’s that there are so many distractions during your senior year…you know, with prom, graduation, and, of course, the parties. And you should be confident and proud and you should enjoy the festivities that go along with senior year, but it’s important to stay focused on your academic and professional ambitions as well.
Eduify has prepared the following list of things you can do to avoid senioritis and to make the transition into college smooth and seamless.
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