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[The College Monk @thecollegemonk]

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[The College Monk @thecollegemonk]

Parent PLUS or private student loan in 2026? Different trade-offs than most people realize. PLUS rates run high, but income-driven repayment and PSLF eligibility still matter. Breakdown of when each one wins: https://t.co/2lRPwiz1QS #StudentLoans #CollegeFinance

[The College Monk @thecollegemonk]

@USNewsEducation The federal rate for new undergrad loans just went to 6.52% for 2026-27. Every $10K you borrow costs $113/month for 10 years. That math is worth knowing before you sign anything.

[The College Monk @thecollegemonk]

What's the biggest college myth you believed — until you found out it wasn't true?

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@gtmom Here, here!

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Apply now! Open to everyone.

[Amarachi Okoroafor @AmarachiOkoroa1]

Why don't you end April by applying for this fully-funded opportunity?

The Pivotal Research Fellowship (2026 Q3 Cohort)

Application deadline: May 3, 2026
Decisions by: May 22, 2026
Fellowship: June 29 - August 28, 2026.

Application link: https://t.co/qLvUxLZTfq

This is a 9-week in-person AI safety research fellowship in London, with up to 6-month extensions for strong
projects. Work alongside expert mentors from Google DeepMind, UK AISI, Redwood Research, and more, and join a community of 129+ alumni shaping the future of safe AI.

What you get:
1. £6,000-£8,000 stipend (Senior FellowS receive £8,000)
2. Travel to London covered
£2,000 housing allowance for non-London fellows.
3. Compute resources for your research
4. Lunch and dinner are included on weekdays at the LISA workspace
5. Weekly 1-on-1 mentorship with established AI safety researchers
6. Up to 6-month extension (70-90% of fellows receive one!)
Research areas include:

Research areas include:

1. Al Policy & Corporate Governance
2. Al Agents & Evaluations
3. Al Control & Security
4. Al x Biosafety

Who can apply

1. Anyone 18+, with backgrounds in ML, philosophy, policy, physics, biology, and more
2. No specific degree required - motivation and ability matter most.
3. Must be able to work in-person in London for 9 weeks.

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[The College Monk @thecollegemonk]

@deedydas Amazing study! Huge n and clear methodology.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

James Clear on having high standards:

[The College Monk @thecollegemonk]

College tip : handwriting notes require synthesis, and therefore beats a laptop for quality of learning.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

A meta-analysis of 3,075 college students just settled the laptop vs paper debate. Handwriting won.

The effect size: r = -0.142 favoring pen. Translated to actual outcomes, switching from pen to laptop pushes 25% of students from above the mean to below it. In education research, that's a massive intervention.

The mechanism is the boring part everyone misses.

Lecture speech runs around 125 words per minute. Handwriting tops out around 22 wpm. Touch-typing hits 40-60 wpm. Do the math.

The laptop user has enough bandwidth to transcribe what the professor said. The pen user does not. So the pen user has to summarize in real time. They strip filler, group ideas, reword the concept in their own language, decide what to skip. Every second of writing is an act of synthesis.

The laptop user is running OCR. The pen user is running compression.

This is why the laptop user with better notes scores worse on the test. Their notes contain more information. Their brain processed less of it. The notes won. The student lost.

The friction was the feature.

Now extend the principle. LLMs autocomplete code. Grammarly rewrites sentences. ChatGPT drafts emails. Each removes the bandwidth bottleneck the way a laptop removes it from notetaking. The output gets better. The encoding gets worse.

The students who outsource their writing to AI today are running the same experiment, with the same result, ten years later in their careers.

Pen and paper is the last interface slow enough to make you think.

[Curious Minds @CuriousMindsHub]

Ask better questions.
Ask better questions.
Ask better questions.
Ask better questions.

That’s how you think better.

[The College Monk @thecollegemonk]

@dr_bandak This is a great guide! Thank you!

[The College Monk @thecollegemonk]

@iam_elias1 AI is only a tool, and like all tools must be used judiciously.

[The College Monk @thecollegemonk]

Taking notes by hand is old-fashioned but science is proving works better than typing them.

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Students who take notes by hand get better grades than those who use laptops, especially in STEM fields.

[The College Monk @thecollegemonk]

4 days to Decision Day.
Look at your award letters and find the "total aid" line. It's lying to you — loans and work-study get counted as aid. Neither is free money.
The math schools don't put on the front page → https://t.co/bbTQZptANn

[The College Monk @thecollegemonk]

Taking notes by hand is old-fashioned but science is proving works better than typing them.

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Students who take notes by hand get better grades than those who use laptops, especially in STEM fields.

[The College Monk @thecollegemonk]

@ZabihullahAtal In person education is still unsurpassed. That’s why college is so important

[The College Monk @thecollegemonk]

The biggest mistake high schoolers make with scholarships isn't applying to too few. It's applying too late.
Most major nursing scholarship cycles open 8–12 months before the academic year. FNSNA's 2027 application is already live.
Smart friend tip: don't wait til November.

[The College Monk @thecollegemonk]

@MITEngineering @MITMechE Wow! This could be revolutionary for learning.

[The College Monk @thecollegemonk]

@MIT This could save countless lives. Extremely important work. thank you.

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@UNEP This is great! So important.

[The College Monk @thecollegemonk]

Goal Setting is the first step to successfully navigating college admissions!

[College Ave @CollegeAveLoans]

🎯 Setting goals keeps you focused, confident, and on track. Learn more on how small goals lead to big wins in school and beyond: https://t.co/2gEzqBh0er. #collegeave #collegestudent