Four months ago, graduation seemed so far away. I still had time to enjoy “college life,” as one puts it: friends, parties, and, of...

I’ve heard it said before that the most common fear in the United States is public speaking -- and that the second most common fear is...

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Like many schools and universities throughout the world, Stanford has transitioned to online classes in the wake of the COVID-19...

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This past Sunday, Hermiona hosted a free masterclass with Ksenia Turkova -- a world-renowned journalist, linguist, news anchor, and...

Learning languages doesn't have to be boring! HermionaU instructor Ksenia Turkova likes to enforce the idea that language learning is fun...

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...

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...

“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it” (George Santayana). Referring to the accession of Napoleon III, Karl Marx...

“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...

While in school, knowledge is measured in very concrete ways - via material learned in school, homework assignments and tests. Students...

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...

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...

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Right now, most of the world is in quarantine and study rituals have been thrown into uncertain chaos with the recent switch to online...

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...

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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...