Introducing: Ideation, Concentration, and Emotion Through Art
“At the point where poetry and dreams meet, the artist captures the soul of the world. Thousands of charms soar into the sky in the music...
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- May 26, 2020
Leland Stanford Zoom University
Like many schools and universities throughout the world, Stanford has transitioned to online classes in the wake of the COVID-19...
Taylor Chin
- May 25, 2020
HermionaU Instructor Spotlight: Alexander Melkumov
Cinematography doesn't start with having the most expensive camera or the most recognized creative potential; it begins with a desire to...
Leora Eisenberg
- May 21, 2020
Memes and More: A De-Brief on Hermiona's Masterclass with Ksenia Turkova
This past Sunday, Hermiona hosted a free masterclass with Ksenia Turkova -- a world-renowned journalist, linguist, news anchor, and...
Taylor Chin
- May 17, 2020
HermionaU Spotlight: Ksenia Turkova
Learning languages doesn't have to be boring! HermionaU instructor Ksenia Turkova likes to enforce the idea that language learning is fun...
Leora Eisenberg
- May 16, 2020
Introducing: "How to Learn a Language From Scratch"
When I was eleven, I decided to teach myself French. I used all of my Barnes and Noble gift cards on grammar textbooks and spent most of...
Max Ehrlich
- May 13, 2020
Phillips Academy -- Online!
Going to boarding school a thousand miles from home is one thing, but going to boarding school 1,000 miles from school is another. During...
David Lysenko
- May 10, 2020
Introducing: "The Birth of America"
“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it” (George Santayana). Referring to the accession of Napoleon III, Karl Marx...
Jason Lu
- May 7, 2020
Davidson's Take on "Online Learning"
“If there were any two semesters I wouldn’t want cut short, it’d definitely be my first and my last.” That was the line I gave to every...
Alice Chudnovsky
- May 3, 2020
Introducing: "How to Build Relationships and Communicate with People"
While in school, knowledge is measured in very concrete ways - via material learned in school, homework assignments and tests. Students...
Leora Eisenberg
- Apr 30, 2020
Distance Learning at Princeton
I am writing this blog on my last day of undergraduate classes. As I clicked “leave meeting” for the last time, I realized that this is...
Taylor Chin
- Apr 27, 2020
HermionaU — and why it stands out
With COVID-19, online education has been put to the test more than ever. Online courses have gone from a convenient option to a mandatory...
Taylor Chin
- Apr 6, 2020
5 tips for studying during quarantine
Right now, most of the world is in quarantine and study rituals have been thrown into uncertain chaos with the recent switch to online...
Yelena Kadeykina
- Mar 26, 2020
How to pick your school during coronavirus
Making a final choice of a college or a boarding school once admitted can be one of a student’s most exciting moments in life so far. Due...
David Lysenko
- Mar 10, 2020
Hard at Work or Hardly Working
Building on my last blog post on whether unpaid internships are actually worth it, I want to take a step back and talk about whether...
Leora Eisenberg
- Mar 7, 2020
It's all about packaging
In high school, I went for a meeting with my mom and my college counselor to talk about my future plans. “So,” she began,” have you begun...
Michael Rupprecht
- Mar 2, 2020
“Thinking rooms”: Expanding the notion of classrooms to include unstructured, free thought
For those of you who remember (most of you perhaps all too acutely) what primary and secondary school is like, you may recall that the...
David Lysenko
- Feb 21, 2020
Are Unpaid Internships Worth It?
Unpaid internships are an undeniable staple of the American university experience. According to a 2017 study by the National Association...
Leora Eisenberg
- Feb 14, 2020
A Typical Week at My High School
Admittedly, it’s been four years since I was last in high school — but I remember it well. I went to an intensive, college-preparatory...
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