Sadhana Bhadoriya

We’ve all been there: you carve out three precious hours, spread your books across the desk with a sense of purpose, and then… an hour later, you find yourself deep in a Wikipedia rabbit hole about the life cycle of a sea turtle, your textbook page untouched, your focus a distant memory. The time was […]

It starts innocently enough. You sit down to study, open your laptop, and promise yourself, “Just five minutes on Instagram to warm up.” An hour later, you’re seven TikTok rabbit holes deep, watching a video about restoring rusty scissors, and your textbook sits untouched. The guilt sets in. You knew it would happen, yet you

In the digital age, your academic life is a fragmented mosaic. Your syllabus is a PDF, assignments are in a learning management system, deadlines are in a Google Calendar, and your notes are scattered across apps and notebooks. To stay on top of it all, you find yourself switching between tabs and notifications, feeling busy

You’re not just a student; you’re an employee. You’re navigating two different worlds, each with its own deadlines, responsibilities, and pressures. The feeling is all too familiar: the looming dread of an exam you haven’t studied for because you just finished a closing shift, the guilt of checking your lecture notes during a work break,

A new semester stretches out before you, a blank canvas of possibility. You’re filled with determination: This time will be different. I’m going to stay on top of everything, ace my classes, and finally conquer that subject that always trips me up. But by midterms, that initial motivation often fades, replaced by the familiar stress

The alarm clock blares. A groggy hand slaps the snooze button. Nine minutes later, it happens again. Finally, you jolt awake, already late. You scramble—clothes, backpack, a granola bar clutched in your teeth. You burst into your first lecture breathless, brain fuzzy, and already playing catch-up. Sound familiar? For many students, mornings are a chaotic

The project looms. It’s important, it’s valuable, and it’s massive. You know you should start, you’ve even carved out the time, but instead of diving in, you find yourself reorganizing your bookshelf by color, suddenly fascinated by the inner workings of your vacuum cleaner, or falling down a three-hour internet rabbit hole about the history

The semester is about to begin, and amidst the frenzy of buying textbooks and sorting out timetables, one crucial decision awaits: how will you keep your academic life from descending into chaos? For generations, the answer was simple—a trusty paper planner. But in our modern, smartphone-glued-to-our-hands world, a powerful challenger has emerged: the digital planner.

Your heart pounds as you stare at the digital hydra—your learning management system. For every assignment you check off, two more appear. A research paper here, three chapters of reading there, a problem set, a discussion post, a looming exam. The deadlines swirl in your mind like a toxic soup. Your stomach clenches. You feel

The essay is a special kind of beast. It demands both the wild, unstructured creativity of brainstorming and the sharp, disciplined focus of structured argumentation. It’s this very duality that makes it so susceptible to procrastination, writer’s block, and the siren call of digital distraction. You find yourself staring at a blinking cursor, an hour