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Kentucky Kernel

Alex Droth, a freshman at the University of Kentucky, studies on her laptop on Friday, Aug. 27, 2021 at 12:53 a.m., at William T. Young Library in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Kaitlyn Skaggs | Staff

Testing knowledge versus testing memory

Jessica Kinsella February 23, 2022

Students sit in a silent room, their phones tucked away in bags at their feet as they squint down at the pages of questions in front of them. Weeks of studying have prepared them to regurgitate the facts...

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Use syllabus week to establish good grades for semester

Sarah Ladd January 9, 2019

There’s a stereotype about straight-A students: they’re the weird ones who never sleep because they live in the library, the ones who have no friends because grades are happiness. Truthfully, though,...

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Advice for the first day of class: Be positive

Sarah Halsey January 8, 2019

The start of another semester is here once again. Many of you may feel excited by the new possibilities that await in the new year and new semester. March Madness. Spring Break. A fresh start. On the other...

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What to do when you don’t get the grades you wanted

Kellsie Kennedy December 12, 2018

The first semester of my freshman year I got my first ever C, and I cried. A year later my semester GPA dropped to a 2.4, and I cried again. The struggles I had with my GPA were some of the first instances...

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Spring Cleaning: Let’s get rid of the ‘overachiever’ stigma

October 16, 2018

Somewhere around week five of the semester is when that extra espresso in your coffee at 5 p.m. is totally acceptable because you’re not going to sleep anyway and the beautiful 100 percent you had in...

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