Exam Anxiety: Experiences and Techniques
In this post, Fraser shares some of his experiences of exam anxiety, and how he controls it. I recall meeting my friend at Waverley on the morning of a second-year …
Memory techniques for exams
Lots of information is presented to you by your teachers during the semester and some of it will need to be memorised. However simply re-reading notes, over and over again, …
Are you juggling too many tasks at once?
It is often documented that students are serial multitaskers. Multitasking harms productivity and assignment performance. What can be done about this? A study carried out by Professor James Kraushaar and …
Are you suffering from burnout?
Research has shown that many students have burnout syndrome. As well as academic problems, it has been suggested that this can also lead to mental and physical health issues. A …
Pearls from Beryl: proofreading and editing
Writer Beryl Bainbridge lived in a terraced house in Camden Town, London. She liked to start roughing out ideas in her kitchen, moving to her sitting room to write out full drafts and type them up on a manual typewriter. She then took the full drafts up to the …
There’s no need to suffer in silence: how university Mental Health Mentors can help you develop your emotional wellbeing
In this post, Edgar Rodriguez-Dorans discusses the support provided for students by Mental Health Mentors at the University of Edinburgh. A narrative of struggling with depression “Jerome has a long …
