office hours

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

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

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

Rewriting a passage of text in your own words.

Summarizing

Condensing someone else's ideas and putting it into your own shortened form.

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