HitchHiker's Guide To College

Make this a great start to your summer!

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HHG2C Teaching Philosophy why Test Prep with us?

It's really that easy ... find the job that you like, keep working at it tirelessly, and it will surprise you how opportunities find you!

This concept drives from Aristotelian Ethics: Eudaimonia and Virtue. "Find the job that you like" relates to recognizing your natural inclinations or potential (Dynamis), "keep working at it tirelessly" corresponds to the process of training, practicing, and developing those skills into excellent action (Energeia), and "opportunities find you" reflects the idea that a life of Virtue and fully realized potential naturally leads to a fulfilling and successful life (Eudaimonia).

In modern positive psychology (ref. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi), the concept of "flow" is a strong parallel. Flow is a mental state of complete absorption, fulfillment, and engagement in an activity that is challenging but within one's skillset. In essence, the philosophy posits that when you align your work with your inherent interests and pursue it with passion and diligence, you enter a state of excellence and fulfillment that naturally draws success and opportunities your way.

This idea also works socially quite well: be yourself and let friends find you! In business and career terms, "being yourself" translates to differentiation or establishing a unique value proposition, while "opportunities finding you" translates to organically building trust and fostering genuine relationships with your clientele to obviate the need for expensive marketing blitzkriegs.

Now listen to what Jensen Huang has to to say about all this ...

Jensen Huang: “The best career advice I got was from a gardener” Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2eis4isQiAAbout the Startup ArchiveWe curate the top 1% of startup advice from the world’s best founders and inv...

Reading and math skills of US students have been on the decline for a while now. It’s a built-in weakness in our education system. Gap semesters in math and lack of courses on grammar and comprehensive reading have always been red flags. Watch this video till the end. 

Why do US students continue to fall behind in reading and math? | The Excerpt America’s high school seniors are falling behind. The decline in math and reading scores is more than a statistic. It’s a warning sign about our future. If t...

Freshman seats have largely remain the same for over two decades, but the number of applications have more than tripled. This is just not the case in the top colleges, but pretty much everywhere. You still need good SAT or ACT scores and solid high school GPAs, but for the top colleges, you also need to have saved the world! Is it worth the uber stress??

College admissions expert: 'We're just putting a tremendous amount of pressure on our kids' CNN's Michael Smerconish speaks with Jeffrey Selingo, college admissions expert and author of "Dream School: Finding the College That's Right for You" and "W...

Watch this till the end. This trend is percolating (SAT vocabulary) nationwide.

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GET A HIGH SCORE ON THE SAT!!! The Trump administration signed an agreement with brown and Columbia University to restore federal funding and exchange for a much greater focus on objective factors in their admissions process, as well as a transparency requirement, which will for the first time for the universities to disclose the exact GPA, SAT score and other demographics of students who were accepted this year. The government is forcing the universities to have a greater focus on those objective factors at the risk of losing federal funding for upcoming years. If you want to succeed in Ivy League admissions this cycle make sure that you’re studying hard for exams like the SAT and have a strong academic record so you’ll still have a good chance of being accepted.

Keep an eye on this. GradPLUS loans are affected along with Stafford loans and Pell grants, etc.

Federal student loan site down Wednesday, a day after layoffs gutted Education Department Hundreds of users reported FAFSA outages to Downdetector starting midday Wednesday, saying they were having trouble completing the form, which is required for financial aid at colleges nationwide.