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    "content": {
        "text": "SERIOUSLY. THAT LIGHT SABER CHOREO! reminds me of philippe candeloro's 1998 three muskateers sword fight."
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        "type": "card",
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    "content": {
        "text": "Bychenko is 34 freaking years old. 34 years old. And skating at the olympics.  (dressed as a dementor as far as I can tell)."
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    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Lillian Karabaic",
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        "text": "Taking off from Chicago on my way to Boston instagr.am/tv/CZsrjYzAG3n/",
        "html": "Taking off from Chicago on my way to Boston <a href=\"https://instagr.am/tv/CZsrjYzAG3n/\">instagr.am/tv/CZsrjYzAG3n/</a>"
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    "content": {
        "text": "\ud83d\udca5\n\nAD Radakovich \u2013 hired away from Clemson, #1 ACC AD\nHC Cristobal \u2013\u00a0hired away from Oregon\nOC Gattis \u2013 hired away from Michigan\nDB Addae \u2013 hired away from UGA\nDC Steele \u2013 veteran, experienced, respected\n\nVery happy with these moves!"
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        "type": "card",
        "name": "Jonathan LaCour",
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                "text": "Sources: Georgia secondary coach Jahmile Addae has agreed to a two-year deal to become the new secondary coach at the University of Miami. He was one of the country\u2019s top recruiters in 2021."
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    "content": {
        "text": "Before any bloviating buffoons come along to say \u201cit did poorly at the box office cause it sux\u201d\u2026\n\nLITERALLY EVERYONE weeks before its release anticipated it doing poorly, ESPECIALLY coming so soon after No Way Home AND being on HBO Max.\n\nLawsuit time! \ud83d\udc4d\n\ntheverge.com/2022/2/7/22922\u2026",
        "html": "Before any bloviating buffoons come along to say \u201cit did poorly at the box office cause it sux\u201d\u2026\n\nLITERALLY EVERYONE weeks before its release anticipated it doing poorly, ESPECIALLY coming so soon after No Way Home AND being on HBO Max.\n\nLawsuit time! \ud83d\udc4d\n\n<a href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/7/22922237/warnermedia-warner-bros-sued-matrix-resurrections-hbo-max-release\">theverge.com/2022/2/7/22922\u2026</a>"
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    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Jared White \ud83d\udd2e",
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    "url": "https://twitter.com/ChrisAldrich/status/1490827696594567169",
    "content": {
        "text": "The final (?) time lapse of the contributions to the Obsidian vault for Dan Allosso\u2019s The Dawn of Everything Book Club.\nboffosocko.com/2022/02/07/tim\u2026\nyoutube.com/watch?v=1UIY0t\u2026",
        "html": "The final (?) time lapse of the contributions to the Obsidian vault for Dan Allosso\u2019s The Dawn of Everything Book Club.\n<a href=\"https://boffosocko.com/2022/02/07/time-lapse-of-the-dawn-of-everything-book-club-end/\">boffosocko.com/2022/02/07/tim\u2026</a>\n<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UIY0t54NjI\">youtube.com/watch?v=1UIY0t\u2026</a>"
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        "type": "card",
        "name": "Chris Aldrich",
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        "text": "Just committed my first use on a client project of the new native form support by @shoelace_style. Added the color picker web component to an existing form in a Rails app, and POOF it just works. Zero custom JS or special setup required.\n\nLiving the dream!",
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        "name": "Jared White \ud83d\udd2e",
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    "url": "https://twitter.com/fluffy/status/1490761808008781825",
    "content": {
        "text": "Not only is streamer.fm yet another music NFT scam, but they are unable to scale at all well despite being hosted on elastic cloud services, and also they don't seem to realize that there's a reason Spotify has an artist ID that's separate from the name",
        "html": "Not only is <a href=\"http://streamer.fm\">streamer.fm</a> yet another music NFT scam, but they are unable to scale at all well despite being hosted on elastic cloud services, and also they don't seem to realize that there's a reason Spotify has an artist ID that's separate from the name"
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        "type": "card",
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    "url": "https://twitter.com/slsoftworks/status/1490745640837689347",
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        "text": "The gingerly blessing most mortals just call @sil reminded me of this \u2015 so now I'm reminding y'all\ud83d\ude0a\n(god bless @NikkitaFTW this is still a phenomenal talk \ud83d\udc96)",
        "html": "The gingerly blessing most mortals just call <a href=\"https://twitter.com/sil\">@sil</a> reminded me of this \u2015 so now I'm reminding y'all\ud83d\ude0a\n(god bless <a href=\"https://twitter.com/NikkitaFTW\">@NikkitaFTW</a> this is still a phenomenal talk \ud83d\udc96)"
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                "text": "Not knowing stuff is normal.\n\nNot using new and shiny tech is okay.\n\nFeeling bad for all of these is common.\n\nYou are not alone.\nBut you are also completely and perfectly fine, and\n\nyou\n\nare\n\nadequate.\n\n\ud83d\udc96\ntwitter.com/FullStackFest/\u2026",
                "html": "Not knowing stuff is normal.\n\nNot using new and shiny tech is okay.\n\nFeeling bad for all of these is common.\n\nYou are not alone.\nBut you are also completely and perfectly fine, and\n\nyou\n\nare\n\nadequate.\n\n\ud83d\udc96\n<a href=\"https://twitter.com/FullStackFest/status/1172152007647535104\">twitter.com/FullStackFest/\u2026</a>"
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    "url": "https://twitter.com/anomalily/status/1490736789849403392",
    "content": {
        "text": "I want to participate in the 100 day project again this year. I'd like to challenge myself to make a piece of content every day, but wonder if that's too broad? I've really struggled with consistent social posting the past few years and @ohmydollar has suffered because of it.",
        "html": "I want to participate in the 100 day project again this year. I'd like to challenge myself to make a piece of content every day, but wonder if that's too broad? I've really struggled with consistent social posting the past few years and <a href=\"https://twitter.com/ohmydollar\">@ohmydollar</a> has suffered because of it."
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    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Lillian Karabaic",
        "url": "https://twitter.com/anomalily",
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    "url": "https://twitter.com/anomalily/status/1490733381268611076",
    "content": {
        "text": "Like Vincent Zhou or not, working your butt off for the past 4 years, during a pandemic with training interrupted and major competitions canceled, to make the Olympics (which will likely be your last) and then testing positive a day prior to your competition. Heartbreaking."
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    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Lillian Karabaic",
        "url": "https://twitter.com/anomalily",
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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2022-02-07T16:05:10+00:00",
    "url": "https://twitter.com/jaredcwhite/status/1490718288845803525",
    "quotation-of": "https://twitter.com/wolfr_2/status/1490714127274233867",
    "content": {
        "text": "Self-host your font files, folks. If you're using a static site generator and/or deploying to a CDN, it's absolutely a no-brainer. I no longer rely on any third parties for new projects, even including TypeKit/Adobe."
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    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Jared White \ud83d\udd2e",
        "url": "https://twitter.com/jaredcwhite",
        "photo": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1431863008288931841/hsLQJBv4.jpg"
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    "post-type": "note",
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            "content": {
                "text": "If it hasn\u2019t been clear for years that using Google Fonts is willfully installing a tracker and doing clients a disservice, there\u2019s also a court decision backing that up now\ntwitter.com/codepo8/status\u2026",
                "html": "If it hasn\u2019t been clear for years that using Google Fonts is willfully installing a tracker and doing clients a disservice, there\u2019s also a court decision backing that up now\n<a href=\"https://twitter.com/codepo8/status/1490664162808184839\">twitter.com/codepo8/status\u2026</a>"
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                "type": "card",
                "name": "Johan Ronsse",
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    "published": "2022-02-07T00:23:28-0500",
    "url": "https://martymcgui.re/2022/02/07/002328/",
    "category": [
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        "text": "What are you unwrapping during eternal Caturday?",
        "html": "<p>What are you unwrapping during eternal Caturday?</p>"
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        "type": "card",
        "name": "Marty McGuire",
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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2022-02-07T07:57:25+00:00",
    "url": "https://twitter.com/kitt/status/1490595539208990720",
    "content": {
        "text": "You know your utilities company is some kind of backwater place when the only way they accept credit cards is through PayPal and their icons are circa 1997. Looking at you, @nipsco.",
        "html": "You know your utilities company is some kind of backwater place when the only way they accept credit cards is through PayPal and their icons are circa 1997. Looking at you, <a href=\"https://twitter.com/NIPSCO\">@nipsco</a>."
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    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Kitt Hodsden",
        "url": "https://twitter.com/kitt",
        "photo": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1328422362962743296/Mz9RZKvo.jpg"
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My comment on COLC-2021-0009-0001

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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2022-02-07T06:16:50+00:00",
    "url": "https://twitter.com/fluffy/status/1490570226836070401",
    "content": {
        "text": "New post: fluffy rambles: My comment on COLC-2021-0009-0001 beesbuzz.biz/blog/677-My-co\u2026\n\n#Copyright #Governance #EFF",
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        "type": "card",
        "name": "fluffy \ud83d\udc9c \u272a\u25be\u032b\u272a",
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    "type": "entry",
    "published": "2022-02-07T04:37:04+00:00",
    "url": "https://twitter.com/anomalily/status/1490545122152378368",
    "content": {
        "text": "I absolutely love to see my feed filled with figure skating commentary by people I know from finance or transit, even if it only comes every 4 years \ud83d\ude02"
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        "type": "card",
        "name": "Lillian Karabaic",
        "url": "https://twitter.com/anomalily",
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Developing Academic Habits

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        "html": "<p>Last semester, I had a student who told me that he had been the kind of student in high school who just sort of skated through his classes, not taking anything too seriously, a typical C student. (By the way, I have permission from the student to talk about his experience.) He wanted to change that. He wanted to be a different person in the new environment of college. We talked about the habits of good students. I shared what I had read about the habits of successful students in articles like <a href=\"https://opportunity.org/learn/lists/10-habits-of-successful-students#.Yf8j1LrMI2w\">this</a>. The first habit of the successful student is typically \u201cGet Organized.\u201d Put your assignments in a planner and check it every day to make sure you\u2019re doing the work you need to do in order to be successful. This student put his assignments in a planner. And then hardly ever checked it. 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I think this can be helpful in my work with students but it has already been helpful to me in my own life.</p>\n<p>Clear writes that the goals we set for ourselves are the results that you want to achieve while habits are about the systems we use to achieve those results. If we want better results, we need to change our systems, our habits, our processes, our behaviors. The rest of the book is about how to build habits that support the results that we want to achieve. He says there are three levels of change we can engage in: outcome change, process change, and identity change. \u201cThe most effective way to change your habits is to focus not on what you want to achieve, but on who you wish to become (p. 41).\u201d The idea behind this statement is that we shouldn\u2019t focus on our goals but rather on being the type of person who engages in certain behaviors, habits, that are likely to achieve those goals. For example, instead of focusing on the goal of writing a novel, we should focus on becoming a writer which means we write every day. Instead of focusing on the goal of running the Boston Marathon, we should focus on becoming a runner which means we run every day. Interesting idea.</p>\n<p>Clear then identifies the four parts of the habit loop: cue, craving, response, and reward (p. 47). The cue triggers the brain to initiate a behavior. The cue triggers a craving, not for the habit itself but for the change in our internal state it delivers. The response is the actual habit we perform which might be a thought or an action. The response then delivers the reward, the actual change in our internal state. The reward satisfies our craving. This sounds very simple but because so much of this loop is invisible and automatic, it is usually really challenging to change these habits. For example, we might have a habit of drinking a glass of wine while making dinner every night that we decide we want to change. The cue for this habit is that we take out the tools we need to make dinner. This triggers our craving of the relaxation we feel when we drink that glass of wine. Our response is almost irresistably automatic so we pour that glass of wine. And our reward is the satisfaction of that craving for relaxation.</p>\n<p>He then goes on to give advice about how to create good habits and break bad habits.</p>\nHow to Create a Good Habit\nThe 1st law (Cue)\nMake it obvious.\nThe 2nd law (Craving)\nMake it attractive.\nThe 3rd law (Response)\nMake it easy.\nThe 4th law (Reward)\nMake it satisfying.\n<p>We can invert these laws to learn how to break a bad habit.</p>\nHow to Break a Bad Habit\nInversion of the 1st law (Cue)\nMake it invisible.\nInversion of the 2nd law (Craving)\nMake it unattractive.\nInversion of the 3rd law (Response)\nMake it difficult.\nInversion of the 4th law (Reward)\nMake it unsatisfying.\n<p>These simple ideas have already made a difference in my own habits and I\u2019ve begun to talk to my students about how they can make desired changes in their habits. For example, one of the things I wanted to change about my behavior is that I wanted to write every day. I make this goal obvious by writing it in my bullet journal (I\u2019ll write more about the bullet journal journey that my research into habit formation sent me on in a later blog post\u2013it\u2019s been a positive journey). Before I read Clear\u2019s book, I made the goal of writing 1000 words at least 5 times a week. This was a really challenging goal for me and although I was managing to meet it for a few weeks, it was really hard. Then I read Clear\u2019s book and I changed the goal. Instead of 1000 words at least 5 times a week, I now have the goal to write 250 words 5 times a week. This is a far easier goal and I exceed it most of the time. I\u2019m using my bullet journal to make the goal both attractive and satisfying by using a visual habit tracker in my journal. The habit tracker is such a simple idea and yet it is so compelling to me. The featured image on this post is a very simple version of a habit tracker. (This one is a free template from <a href=\"https://www.saturdaygift.com/daily-habit-tracker/\">Saturday Gift</a>.) You write the habits you want to track on the left side of the grid and color in the boxes each day you complete the habit or put an X in the box if you don\u2019t complete the habit. I can\u2019t explain why it is so motivating. But it is. I want to color in those boxes!</p>\n<p>Clear writes about starting habits with really basic, easy tasks. If you want to exercise when you get home from work, put a post-it note where you hang up your keys to put your work out clothes on. You don\u2019t actually have to work out (at first). You just have to put your clothes on. And then give yourself a reward for putting your clothes on. The post-it note makes the habit obvious. The reward makes the habit attractive. The fact that you just have to put your clothes on makes the habit easy. And the reward is the reward. And it turns out, you will often actually work out after putting your work out clothes on. Clear points out that you don\u2019t have to be perfect\u2013you don\u2019t have to work out every time you put your work out clothes on. In fact, you don\u2019t have to put your work out clothes on every day. But if you put them on more days than you don\u2019t, you\u2019ve begun to create this habit. And if you don\u2019t put them on more days than you do, Clear suggests that maybe this goal isn\u2019t one you actually value. So maybe you don\u2019t beat yourself up for not doing it.</p>\n<p>I\u2019ve talked with students about how they can use the habit loop and these 4 laws to achieve academic success. Put your books on your pillow so you have to move them to go to bed in order to make it obvious that you actually have books. Set a goal to look at your assignments in the learning management system for your classes\u2013just look at them. Put your game controller in your friend\u2019s room so that you have to go down the hall to retrieve it to play your video game. Set a reminder on your phone to tell yourself it\u2019s time to go to bed. What works for one person will not work for everyone but there is something that will work for everyone. We just need to figure out what each person values and how to use that to help them to be more successful (whatever \u201csuccessful\u201d means for that person).</p>\n<p>I have been talking to students for a long time about good study habits. But this is the first time I have really thought about not just telling students what good study habits are but helping them to actually develop those habits. I think it\u2019s already making a difference and I look forward to learning more about it.</p>",
        "text": "Last semester, I had a student who told me that he had been the kind of student in high school who just sort of skated through his classes, not taking anything too seriously, a typical C student. (By the way, I have permission from the student to talk about his experience.) He wanted to change that. He wanted to be a different person in the new environment of college. We talked about the habits of good students. I shared what I had read about the habits of successful students in articles like this. The first habit of the successful student is typically \u201cGet Organized.\u201d Put your assignments in a planner and check it every day to make sure you\u2019re doing the work you need to do in order to be successful. This student put his assignments in a planner. And then hardly ever checked it. Despite his strong motivation to change, he soon fell back into his habits from high school. We talked about the situation a lot and I realized that simply telling someone the \u201cright\u201d things to do doesn\u2019t work. If it did, we would all accomplish all of our goals. We wouldn\u2019t set and break resolutions every New Year. And yet, I have so often given advice to students about good study skills and habits. But I have never helped students figure out how to actually develop these skills and habits.\nSo I started to do some research about habit formation. I soon found Atomic Habits by James Clear. It\u2019s an easy read packed with information about how to effectively develop or break habits. I think this can be helpful in my work with students but it has already been helpful to me in my own life.\nClear writes that the goals we set for ourselves are the results that you want to achieve while habits are about the systems we use to achieve those results. If we want better results, we need to change our systems, our habits, our processes, our behaviors. The rest of the book is about how to build habits that support the results that we want to achieve. He says there are three levels of change we can engage in: outcome change, process change, and identity change. \u201cThe most effective way to change your habits is to focus not on what you want to achieve, but on who you wish to become (p. 41).\u201d The idea behind this statement is that we shouldn\u2019t focus on our goals but rather on being the type of person who engages in certain behaviors, habits, that are likely to achieve those goals. For example, instead of focusing on the goal of writing a novel, we should focus on becoming a writer which means we write every day. Instead of focusing on the goal of running the Boston Marathon, we should focus on becoming a runner which means we run every day. Interesting idea.\nClear then identifies the four parts of the habit loop: cue, craving, response, and reward (p. 47). The cue triggers the brain to initiate a behavior. The cue triggers a craving, not for the habit itself but for the change in our internal state it delivers. The response is the actual habit we perform which might be a thought or an action. The response then delivers the reward, the actual change in our internal state. The reward satisfies our craving. This sounds very simple but because so much of this loop is invisible and automatic, it is usually really challenging to change these habits. For example, we might have a habit of drinking a glass of wine while making dinner every night that we decide we want to change. The cue for this habit is that we take out the tools we need to make dinner. This triggers our craving of the relaxation we feel when we drink that glass of wine. Our response is almost irresistably automatic so we pour that glass of wine. And our reward is the satisfaction of that craving for relaxation.\nHe then goes on to give advice about how to create good habits and break bad habits.\nHow to Create a Good Habit\nThe 1st law (Cue)\nMake it obvious.\nThe 2nd law (Craving)\nMake it attractive.\nThe 3rd law (Response)\nMake it easy.\nThe 4th law (Reward)\nMake it satisfying.\nWe can invert these laws to learn how to break a bad habit.\nHow to Break a Bad Habit\nInversion of the 1st law (Cue)\nMake it invisible.\nInversion of the 2nd law (Craving)\nMake it unattractive.\nInversion of the 3rd law (Response)\nMake it difficult.\nInversion of the 4th law (Reward)\nMake it unsatisfying.\nThese simple ideas have already made a difference in my own habits and I\u2019ve begun to talk to my students about how they can make desired changes in their habits. For example, one of the things I wanted to change about my behavior is that I wanted to write every day. I make this goal obvious by writing it in my bullet journal (I\u2019ll write more about the bullet journal journey that my research into habit formation sent me on in a later blog post\u2013it\u2019s been a positive journey). Before I read Clear\u2019s book, I made the goal of writing 1000 words at least 5 times a week. This was a really challenging goal for me and although I was managing to meet it for a few weeks, it was really hard. Then I read Clear\u2019s book and I changed the goal. Instead of 1000 words at least 5 times a week, I now have the goal to write 250 words 5 times a week. This is a far easier goal and I exceed it most of the time. I\u2019m using my bullet journal to make the goal both attractive and satisfying by using a visual habit tracker in my journal. The habit tracker is such a simple idea and yet it is so compelling to me. The featured image on this post is a very simple version of a habit tracker. (This one is a free template from Saturday Gift.) You write the habits you want to track on the left side of the grid and color in the boxes each day you complete the habit or put an X in the box if you don\u2019t complete the habit. I can\u2019t explain why it is so motivating. But it is. I want to color in those boxes!\nClear writes about starting habits with really basic, easy tasks. If you want to exercise when you get home from work, put a post-it note where you hang up your keys to put your work out clothes on. You don\u2019t actually have to work out (at first). You just have to put your clothes on. And then give yourself a reward for putting your clothes on. The post-it note makes the habit obvious. The reward makes the habit attractive. The fact that you just have to put your clothes on makes the habit easy. And the reward is the reward. And it turns out, you will often actually work out after putting your work out clothes on. Clear points out that you don\u2019t have to be perfect\u2013you don\u2019t have to work out every time you put your work out clothes on. In fact, you don\u2019t have to put your work out clothes on every day. But if you put them on more days than you don\u2019t, you\u2019ve begun to create this habit. And if you don\u2019t put them on more days than you do, Clear suggests that maybe this goal isn\u2019t one you actually value. So maybe you don\u2019t beat yourself up for not doing it.\nI\u2019ve talked with students about how they can use the habit loop and these 4 laws to achieve academic success. Put your books on your pillow so you have to move them to go to bed in order to make it obvious that you actually have books. Set a goal to look at your assignments in the learning management system for your classes\u2013just look at them. Put your game controller in your friend\u2019s room so that you have to go down the hall to retrieve it to play your video game. Set a reminder on your phone to tell yourself it\u2019s time to go to bed. What works for one person will not work for everyone but there is something that will work for everyone. We just need to figure out what each person values and how to use that to help them to be more successful (whatever \u201csuccessful\u201d means for that person).\nI have been talking to students for a long time about good study habits. But this is the first time I have really thought about not just telling students what good study habits are but helping them to actually develop those habits. I think it\u2019s already making a difference and I look forward to learning more about it."
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        "text": "Kamila\u2019s quads. That\u2019s the tweet."
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        "text": "I am obsessed with Madison chock\u2019s space alien princess costume."
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