JLV College CounselingThe Power of Music: Music Can Help Students Cope With Stress and Anxiety
Music has the power to heal us and to rejuvenate our soul by enchanting our inner self.
In the current pressure of life where we are all busy participating in the cat’s race, it is tough to keep ourselves aloof from the humongous stress. It is sad, but the fact is this pressure starts building during our childhood days. The moment a child steps into the outer world, he has the pressure mounting on him from various aspects of life, and it goes on increasing as he grows up.
Students are definitely affected by stress. While they have immense pressure to perform well, they do not always have the ability to deal with it effectually. Therefore, it is our duty as parents to help them. Why not introduce them to music from the very early days of life and give them an avenue to distress?
Let us see how music can help students to cope with stress and anxiety. Read More
Senioritis: Don’t Let It Affect Your Senior Year
Senioritis can be a serious problem for high school seniors. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines senioritis as, “an ebbing of motivation and effort by school seniors as evidenced by tardiness, absences, and lower grades.” You’ve been working so hard the last three and a half year to make yourself attractive to colleges. Now that you have submitted your applications and possibly already started receiving admission decisions, you might want to take a little break. This is a common feeling, but you must not let senioritis take over the last few months of your senior year! Read More
Scholarship Saturday – January 26, 2019
The deadlines for the scholarships that were on this list have passed. To see scholarships that are still accepting applications, visit more recent Scholarship Saturday posts.
5 Skills You Can Get While You Are a Student
Time spent in college or university is one of the most productive periods of your life. Besides offering you an opportunity to gain valuable knowledge on the subjects you care about, this amazing time also allows you to develop skills you will definitely find useful throughout life.
These skills are known as “soft skills.” This term is used to mark the qualities that can be easily transferred from one field of operation to another, proving that a person who mastered them is capable of adapting to different situations and circumstances.
Here is a list of top 5 such skills you can acquire while being a student. Read More
How to Avoid Plagiarism
So, you’ve got an assignment due for class and you’ve been told there are serious consequences for plagiarizing. But what is plagiarism? And how do you avoid it?
According to the Oxford Dictionary online, plagiarism means “The practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own.” This can be as blatant as copying all or part of someone else’s essay off the internet and submitting it as your own essay or as subtle as using a quote and not referencing it correctly. Usually, you will be required to cite exact quotations, reworded quotations, and other people’s original concepts when using them in your work.
Here are five tips to make sure your essay is referenced correctly and is free of plagiarism. Read More
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