How to be Smarter: Before you sign something legally-binding, read it the whole thing. Start at page 1, and go until the end. If you have a question or something looks fishy, ask for clarification–because your credit score or potential extra fees are more important than your landlord looking at you funny while you read [...]
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How to be Smarter: You can’t be a person who yells. Boys don’t like to date girls that yell; girls don’t like to be friends with other girls who yell; family members don’t like to talk to other family members who yell; co-workers don’t want people on their team that yell. Nobody, nobody, nobody likes [...]
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How to be Smarter: When buying new furniture from a specific brand, find a set of drawers from the desired label, pull the drawer out, and try to wiggle it. In general, the more it wiggles, the less sturdy and less well-made the brand’s furniture is built. How to be Prettier: Clothes that make you [...]
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How to be Smarter: We reach back to boys from our past when boys in our present aren’t working for us. Seriously thinking (not just fondly reminiscing) about past relationships means something big needs to change in your current one. How to be Prettier: I just love everything–everything–about this dress. I’d wear it with a black collarless blazer and [...]
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How to be Smarter: When printing less-important documents (essay outlines, coupons, etc.) at home, configure the printer settings so the computer uses the least amount of ink (usually called ‘Fast Draft’ or something similar) when printing. This easy switch (it is almost impossible to detect in printouts) is both environmentally and economically savvy. How to be Prettier: I don’t think clothes [...]
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How to be Smarter: When you feel overwhelmed, sit down and make a list of what needs to accomplished. Once the list is finished, label each item with the approximate time needed to complete it, and then number from highest to lowest priority. Now go grab a coffee, and start tackling the list. Sometimes just [...]
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How to be Smarter: 10 Words to Stop Misspelling. How to be Prettier: Hair-ties that you can wear on your wrist without looking tacky. I especially like the pearl collection for the holiday season. How to be (less) Awkward: If you don’t want to attend an event you have been invited to on Facebook, just [...]
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How to be Smarter: You practice doing things you want to get better at. If you want to do well on an upcoming math test, you practice math problems. If you want to become sweeter, you need to practice acting patiently and generously towards others. You probably don’t always feel like doing math problems, but [...]
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How to be Smarter: If you want more friends, be friendly to more. Invite a new girl out to dinner with your crew, start stopping by the desk of a co-worker you’d like to get to know better, buy a big thing of Halloween candy and bring it around your dorm floor to share. How [...]
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How to be Smarter: Easy way to clean up your work computer after you accidentally eat a cookie or something crumbly over it: grab a post-it-note, and rub the sticky side in between the keys (Source, with more good tips). How to be Prettier: It reminds me of a clog, yet is more of a [...]
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How to be Smarter: If you’re walking with someone, holding hands, and they trip a little, you tighten your grip to prevent them from falling. If you would let go of someone’s hand and just let them fall, you shouldn’t have agreed to hold their hand in the first place. So if someone you love [...]
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How to be Smarter: There are a handful of people I know who I rarely see or speak to, but regularly consult in my mind–I wonder how they would handle a situation or what choice they would make in my shoes. These are people who I am positive rarely think about me, and who will [...]
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How to be Smarter: Don’t think of it as baggage; think of it as perspective. How to be Prettier: But if you do have baggage, try to limit it to strictly carry-on. How to be (less) Awkward: Carrying baggage from past relationships is never an excuse for poor, unkind, or jealous behavior in your current one.
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How to be Smarter: When writing a paper or document on a foreign computer, write it as an email draft to yourself. That way, when you log into any other computer, it will be there waiting for you, even if you forgot to save or send it to yourself. How to be Prettier: Fall basic: [...]
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