As funny as it may sound, when I was growing up nobody ever bothered mentioning to me about the importance of having good grades… I kid you not.
Maybe I was just the product of bad counseling or maybe while they were mentioning grades, I just wasn’t listening. But now that I have my own children and now that my oldest is preparing to enter college, I am very glad that they have not inherited my early bad habits. Ever since my kids could understand what we were saying to them, …

Have you fallen into the common student trap of waking up each morning without a clue what you’re going to be doing that day? Maybe you’ve got a couple of classes, but you’ll end up spending the rest of your time playing computer games, hanging out in the refractory, and seeing what everyone’s up to on Facebook. Sure, you have an assignment deadline looming, and you had a feeling there was a book you were supposed to read, but neither of those need doing today…
So, on Thursday night, you’re up …