Tag: learning

• {{Launch School Edition}}: The Importance of Paying Attention

  Around two years ago, I was asked to complete a personality assessment that included DiSC®. DiSC® is a personal assessment tool used to help improve teamwork, communication, and productivity in the workplace on four behaviors: dominance, influence, steadiness and compliance. High compliance scores are associated with analytical, detail oriented, andcautious learners. Low C’s tend to […]

  Nico Addai

  December 6, 2022

  Technology, Uncategorized

  launch school, learning, software engineering

• Making a (College-level) Science Poster

  Science is hard to look at, but we have to try and make it more accessible to the audience to know the most important things about your project your time, effort, and failures onto on singular presentation: a poster. The culmination of a summer’s research, an honors thesis or a study with a professor in […]

  Nico Addai

  October 11, 2018

  Neuroscience

  blog, exams, How to, learning, neuroscience poster example, science, science poster, science project

• Mid-Semester Slump and Trying to Jump Over It

  It’s that time of year again. I can’t get up at 6am anymore. I have to drag myself to the gym. I’m eating late, and drinking less water. And my grades are showing this slump. Most definitely, the new job I got (and quit) in the span of 5 weeks had something to do with it, but […]

  Nico Addai

  December 1, 2017

  Musings

  college slump, failure, learning, studying

• How Studying is Different for Different Classes

  I think the different methods of studying was what I found the most difficult to adjust to  when I first started college. In high school, in addition to being supervised for longer periods of time and having less dense material, memorizing and reciting the material (chew and pour) was enough to get an A. Here’s […]

  Nico Addai

  October 27, 2017

  Uncategorized

  learning, studying, studying at a college level