Glossary Terms
- office hours
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Office hours are a specific time faculty set aside to meet individually with students who want extra help, have questions, or seek mentoring; some faculty ask students to make an appointment while others have drop-in office hours.
- imposter syndrome
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Impostor syndrome is the consistent fear that one does not belong or that one is not good enough; someone suffering from impostor syndrome may worry about being “exposed” as a fraud or fake.
- opportunity cost
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The “cost” of choosing one alternative versus another; if I go running instead of hanging out with my friends, I incur the opportunity cost of not socializing.
- Paraphrasing
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Rewriting a passage of text in your own words.
- Summarizing
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Condensing someone else's ideas and putting it into your own shortened form.
