Reflection It is important to try new things. When Sarah and I decided to write a piece together on reflection, having written a previous blog post, she did what she often does with me and produced something impressive. This time, … Continued
Women, Leadership, and Sports – Learning from Experience Cynthia Bainton, Kush Sidhu, James Stellar The three of us recently came together from different perspectives. CB is a repeat blogger and works at Northeastern University where JS was Dean. KS was … Continued
Self-Perception and Education Naomi Ducat QC ‘16 and Jim Stellar Naomi and I met last spring at an Honors function where she was on the classical “Dean’s List.” We began talking about experiential education and she pointed out recently that … Continued
Student Motivation to Succeed Paulina Smietanka QC’14 and Jim Stellar Paulina and I have written a number of blogs about internships, etc. You can find them by using the search window to look for her name. Now we want to … Continued
Positive emotional states lead to engagement, focused practice, and mastery Lauren Blachorsky QC ’15 and Jim Stellar In a previous blog post, we discussed a possible brain mechanism for mastering a skill that was partially based on activity-dependent structural changes … Continued
The higher education value proposition – co-creation with industry of an educated citizen by Jim Stellar As higher education continues to work on the basic vale proposition in terms of what the student gets vs. the investment of family funds … Continued
Magic Myelin Lauren Blachorsky QC ’15 and Jim Stellar Lauren and I share a large interdisciplinary class that investigates how the brain mechanisms of pleasure and pain might work in a larger society. She also works in a professor’s laboratory … Continued
Love of Words Chloe’ Skye Weiser QC’13 and Jim Stellar “To read means to satisfy the philological drive, to make a literary impression upon oneself. To read out of an impulse for pure philosophy or poetry, unaided by philology, is … Continued
Mentoring and Being Mentored Catherine Nunez NU’08 and Jim Stellar Katie was a student with whom I connected at Northeastern. Recently, she wrote me this great e-mail which included the following key observations about mentoring: Personally, I credit collegiate peer … Continued
Internship vs. undergraduate research – what is the difference? Paulina Smietanka ‘14 and Jim Stellar This is our third blog. We already wrote on her first public school and second private clinic internship experience. Now our goal is to compare … Continued