This GradHacker post was written by Julie Platt, Michigan State University PhD student in Writing and Rhetoric Studies, @AristotleJulep Just before Christmas, I finished the second of a set of ...

When we think about relationships, we tend to think about our connections with others—our partners, friends, family members, and co-workers. This post focuses on a relationship that often gets ...

Is losing weight as simple as doing a 15-minute writing exercise? In a new study, women who wrote about their most important values, like close relationships, music, or religion, lost more weight over ...

A little push at the right time can help move disadvantaged black and Latino students onto the path to college years later, according to two new experimental studies. In several studies over the last ...

At one time or another, most students feel antsy going into a big test. But how students interpret those sweaty palms and racing pulse can make or break their performance. A new study in the ...

Putting pen to paper can put your body and mind on the ‘write’ track. Taking just 15 minutes to complete writing exercises about self compassion can increase women's body image, according to a new ...

Author Monica Valentinelli offers three writing exercises to help get you thinking about science fiction story ideas. Create an alien, destroy the world, and create a fantastical invention. Since many ...

"We all think it's dead obvious that a musician has practice time devoted solely to "work" meant to be discarded. But programmers..." So wrote programming instructor and game developer Kathy Sierra on ...