Educated Zombies

Judith talks about conversations with students who are not sure what to do with life, and practical advice to help you navigate through. Sam gets raw and talks about leaving the field of science.

The Zombies discuss their thoughts on a Paul & Elder Critical Thinking lecture, and what does thinking on a deeper level look like. Judith shares her personal opinion if you should work and go to school at the same time. Resources: Logic of Things and How to Teach It: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyvH20ewyY0

One of the Zombies' mom and sister sit in to talk about family culture, learning, and growing up in the wild.

Judith gets real and shares her heartache due to COVID; the Zombies talk about retention stats for sophmore college students and the struggles of homesickness

It is midterms, and things are getting intense! Brains are beginning to fry, grades might be slipping. It is a good time to ask yourself if you are cut out for college. Answer: yes; everyone is cut out for an education. However, this might not be the season or place for you. The zombies talk about school struggles and how to do you go about finding the answer to this question. Side note, we aired this live on the new app Stereo. Feeling this new app out and see if it works for us! References: "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" by Robert Kiyosaki Brene Brown (I can't remember where exactly I read the quote of productive rest)

Sam is prepping for one of the biggest exams she has ever faced, and the Zombies talk about prepping for midterms.

Our first guest, former grad student, shares a personal story of confrontation, academic fairness, and when do you have to call the cops.

Judith takes time to share her observation on one of the most important skill set you need in order to survive college, especially graduate work. And no, it is not IQ. Resources cited: "Why Emotions Matter" by Triston Collins and Jonathan Collins, with Melissa Binder. 2019, Beaumont Press.

Zombies show their heart and talk about depression, stress, and how COVID has magnified these stresses.

Zombies hash it out on body positivity for both men and women, the standards of white beauty, and Judith get's personal and shares her attempt to lighten her skin. Resources discussed: Gilligan, Carol. The Birth of Pleasure. 2002.

Zombies discuss how college is where you will be exposed to many different concepts, biases, perspectives, some will be very strange and even uncomfortable. So what do you do? Adopting academic fairmindness will 1) allow you to come up close to new things, and even help confront fears of the unknown. 2) It takes courage and humility to adopt fairmindness. Resources mentioned: The Plus Size Model Controversy. 2020. Blogilates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXviZArq3ec White, Garrett J. Podcast: Warrior On Fire. Doyle, Glennon. Untamed. 2020 Paul, Richard, & Linda Elder. A Guide for Educators to Critical Thinking Competency Standards; Standard, Principles, Performance Indicators, and Outcomes with a Critical Thinking Master Rubric. Foundation for Critical Thinking Press. 2005.

Considering the current times, we decided to post a bite size episode on our views of voting! Resources listed: Einstein, Albert. Ideas and Opinions. Crown Trade Paperbacks. 1982.

Movie spoiler alert!! We give our opinion on the controversial movie "Cuties", including how this movie ties into education. We also dive into how and what learning a new and very hard topic looks like. Sources mentioned: Make Love Not Porn - Ted Talk by Cindy Gallop: https://www.ted.com/talks/cindy_gallop_make_love_not_porn I Am an Emotional Creature by Eve Ensler Movie: Don Jon, 2013. Deep Work by Cal Newport

Sam is wrapping up our mini-series of setting you up for success by giving you a close up view of how she tackles study time. Sam was a VIP admit in her graduate program. What that means her academic performance as an undergrad gave her automatic admission into a graduate program. In other words, Sam really is a killer student (which is why she is a great co-host and mentor)!!

We are continuing our miniseries of setting you up for success. We are focusing on studying independently. Especially with COVID, you will have to be doing a lot of learning on your own. How do you do that? How do you maximize your study time in order to be a bad ass, killer student? We give you some tips on how to be one. Key take aways for this episode are: 1) Know key terms and definitions. Don't just memorize, be able to ________ (you fill in the blank). 2) Engage with the text you are reading by a) asking questions before you read and b) ______ (you fill in the blank). 3) You have to keep yourself accountable. What are some markers you need to set in place in order to make sure you stay on track?

In episode 4, the zombies talk about the staggering statistics of cheating in college, and the real reason why students cheat: the pre-programmed misconception that you HAVE to know everything. They flesh out the concept of knowing versus learning culture, and how studying can help you develop a personal learning culture. Also, one of the zombies shares her personal experience with cheating!

We talk about various articles that have impacted our viewpoint on the verbal meme "Karen", what if "The Me Too" movement collides with "Black Lives Matter" movement, AND then we dive into technicals tips you should be doing the first couple weeks of college.

Bite size episodes is where we take key concepts from our full length episode and then flesh them out (lol). This bite size is where we chew on the concept of making a vision board which was talked about it Episode 2 (okay, I am done with the puns).

Should you go to college? Tune in where we give you advice on how to figure out if you should even go to college.

We are just a bunch of losers who got stuck in Higher Education, and we are sharing some tips to help you survive college.