Picture this: You’ve set a specific time to get your work done, but an urgent email comes in and messes up your focus and planned flow of work. When you try to return to what you were doing before, you’ve lost track of what you were working on. Sounds familiar, right? These struggles tie back to a very important set [...]
With the growing influence of AI in academic spaces such as educational chatbots, adaptive tutoring systems, and tools such as ChatGPT, many students experience feelings of anxiety and demotivation. When essays can be drafted by a click of a button, and solve problems with a three-liner prompt, the feeling of helplessness is often carried into the workforce. Helplessness and Fear [...]
If asked out of context, it seems reasonable to expect most people to answer that they do not particularly enjoy the feeling of fear. And yet, many actively seek out the most frightening horror movies they can find, even when the scenarios projected across the screen inspire an unsettling sense of anxiety, and even terror, that persists long after the [...]
It can be a pain not being able to commemorate the end of our school lives with a bang by attending a convocation ceremony or going on a graduation trip with our friends and family! Despite the setbacks forced upon us by a deadly virus, we can still make a productive use of our time. To make this period productive, [...]
When we are going through our school days, we often perceive it as one of the most stressful times of our lives. The tsunami of unthinkably complex tasks, assignments and long-drawn-out projects that we must complete can push us to our emotional, physical and psychological ends. Nevertheless, time stops for no one, and soon we realise that our school days [...]
Dealing with Rejection After understanding more about why rejection hurts, we will now explore what we can do to deal with rejection more positively. Firstly, acknowledge your feelings. It is absolutely normal to feel sad or embarrassed after a rejection, and we should give ourselves space to come to terms with those emotions. Many psychologists also said that the best [...]
I believe one of the things many of us fear or hate to receive in our mailbox would be, “Sorry to inform you that…”. As a second-year undergraduate applying for internships, rejection is almost becoming a daily occurrence for me. Despite how many times I tell myself, “It’s okay”, “Don’t let this define you”, I still find myself sinking into [...]
This question has been asked too many times, hence it deserves a post to be used to explain it.. We often see Bachelors of Science (BSc) in Psychology and Bachelors of Arts (BA) in Psychology, and people may ask what the difference is between these programs, when sometimes both are offered in the university? Basically I have to start off [...]
Well, JCU is rather competitive, because students are fighting for honours, with 75% distinction average needed for Year 3 modules needed qualification of honours, which is sad because you see many people just fighting for honours aimlessly, and the joy of learning dies. JCU has a solid coursework and the lecturers are from the Australian campus posted to the Singapore [...]
In this post, we will look at some techniques that will help in improving your memory for storing your exam information. The list is extensive and can consist of anything you can think of, so this is just a short list of ideas that you can try to use. Before you read any further, please make sure you read on [...]