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27 July 2026 – Setting Realistic Expectations

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. Early in this second semester I want to give you something to stick up above your desk to think about every time things feel…

20 July 2026 – Your Phone can be a Career Roadblock

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. At the beginning of this new term I want to make a rather startling point: your phone, without which you feel so lost and…

13 July 2026 – Back to School

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. One of these days you will be returning to university after the winter break. It may feel daunting! Take a deep breath and acknowledge how…

06 July 2026 – A Recipe for Coping with Stress

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. You’re on holiday at the moment, blissfully free of all the tensions and stresses of campus life, but soon you will be going back…

29 June 2026 – With Time to Spare: Clearing a Tangle and Thinking about Goals

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. A reminder: Tomorrow 30 June is the closing date of the GRAD – your guide to university success quiz. Please follow this link to answer the quiz…

22 June 2026 – Going Home

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. (This one is slightly different from the usual, more personal and emotional. Try listening.) It’s holiday time, and many of you are going home for…

15 June 2026 – GRIT

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. You’re halfway through your exams, and you’re exhausted. You must find the strength and the energy – the GRIT – to keep going in…

08 June 2026 – Writing Exams with Confidence

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. It’s exam time, often a time of stress and tension. Next week we’ll give you some support in dealing with that stress and finding…

01 June 2026 – Sleep in Order to Learn

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. With the mid-year exams upon you, sleep is probably the last on your list of priorities at the moment. Let’s talk about that. Brain Science teaches…

25 May 2026 – Effective Study: Spaced Repetition

If you’d rather listen to this newsletter, click here. How’s it going with your studies? Have you been keeping to your schedule and using the pomodoro technique, as we discussed last week? Good…
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