Dr. John C. Stanko
Personal Scholarly Website
Tag: undergraduate
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Taking Advantage of Mandatory Mentorship Time Why attend office hours? Well, for one thing, attending office hours is positively correlated with better performance in courses. Yet office hours remain an overlooked and underutilized aspect of undergraduate education for many students. The vast majority of students simply never invest the time to show up and discuss…
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Choosing Classes: Balancing Requirements with Curiosity When people ask why I started studying Russian, I usually laugh before relating the story. Despite later finding out I have ancestral ties to the region, my choice of a Slavic language was largely one of chance. I had just transferred to Texas Tech and needed to enroll in…