This week you'll learn about reading strategies you can use to set yourself up for success as you study. You'll also discuss how to recognize and deal with impostor syndrome as you adjust to the university environment. You'll meet with Syracuse University specialists from the Barnes Center (the home of SU's services for health, wellness, and recreation), the Office of Financial Literacy, and 'Cuse Works (the university's dedicated resource for student employment and experiential learning).
Keeping up with assigned readings is a vital part of making sure you're prepared to participate in class, do your best work on assignments, and face your exams with confidence. But how you approach those readings can have a big impact on how much you understand and retain! Resources in this column address strategies for reading comprehension and effective studying.
This video from Thomas Frank of College Info Geek covers 5 active reading strategies for textbook reading in university, including pseudoskimming, backward reading, and looking for context clues in the formatting of a text. The video is a little over seven minutes long and has English closed captions.
In this video, Steve Kaufmann reviews strategies to improve your reading comprehension, with a focus on understanding and retaining information from texts not in your native language. The video is roughly seven minutes long and has closed captions in English as well as a large selection of other languages.
This video from Crash Course offers tips and strategies to tackle your college reading assignments with confidence. The video is roughly ten minutes long, and includes closed captions in English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Arabic, Hebrew, and Polish.
You Are What You Read
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How to Study
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Impostor syndrome, also sometimes known as impostorism, is a tendency to doubt your skills and capabilities, often associated with the idea that your success is unearned, or that you don't deserve to be where you are. Many students experience impostor syndrome upon starting university for the first time, and it can have a big impact on your confidence and ability to thrive. The resources in this column discuss how impostor syndrome works and how to challenge it, so you can start your classes in the fall with the assurance that you are capable and ready to tackle whatever life throws at you.
In this video from the HealthyGamerGG YouTube channel, Dr. K discusses the ways impostor syndrome can hold you back from achieving your goals. He offers strategies and techniques for working through impostor syndrome. The video is around 17 minutes long.
This vlog-style video from How to ADHD explores impostor syndrome through a more personal lens, looking at how it can affect both mental and physical health. The video discusses potential ways to process and manage impostor syndrome when it arises. The video is roughly 10 minutes long and includes English closed captions.
In this video podcast, Forrest Hanson and psychologist Rick Hanson take a deep dive into the process of overcoming impostor syndrome. The video is roughly an hour long.
Resilience, Confidence, and Positive Thinking
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The Palgrave Handbook of Imposter Syndrome in Higher Education
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