Advice Column
How to Balance Your Screen Time
By: Evelyn Greene
I have four tips to help you balance your screen time and the time you are not on your phone. Tip #1: Create screen free zones. What I mean by this is to make places like your bedroom, bathroom, and dining room places that you are supposed to be interacting face-to-face with people. Tip #2: Set time limits. So if you spend an average time of four hours on TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat then make a 30 minute time limit for each. Tip #3: Don’t use your phone, tablet, or TV at the dinner table. This is your time to talk. Tip #4: Follow the rules that help you have good eyesight. Things like the 20-20-20 or the 30x30x30 rule. If you don’t know what I mean it means every 20 or 30 minutes look at something 20 or 30 feet away for 20 or 30 seconds. Hope these tips help you have a very good social life!
How to Get Work Done When You Have a Lot
By: Annabelle Amos
Have you ever felt like you have so much work to do that you just can’t possibly do it all? Well I have and here are some tips to help you out. Tip #1: Don't procrastinate. I know that if you have so many assignments you might not want to do it but it is way easier to just start doing it than procrastinating and having less time to do them. If you just start doing them and do not procrastinate it will be much better and easier. Tip #2: Do the assignments that you have the least work to do on. For example if you have a math assignment with only 1-2 problems, do that first so that you feel like you're getting more work done. Tip #3: Be positive. If your mindset is that you will never finish and it’s so much work that you couldn’t possibly finish it then you probably won’t finish it all but if you just try your best then that is your best chance of finishing all of your work done. I hope that this helps you finish your work!
How Do You Get Better at Video Games?
By:Korbin Thomas
Well, the first way to get better at video games is to play them often. The best way to get better at anything is to learn from experience including games. Then you can also watch tutorials which I've done a lot, because it helps a lot especially when you're new to a game. Or to even have a friend to help you and tell you what you should do and what not to. Having a friend that has experience can help a lot because they can help you not make mistakes they did, which could have slowed down their progress in the game. Or even just by your friend telling you to save these items, do these quests first and the order of things you should get helps a lot because there is always a most efficient and fast way to get through a game which a lot of times doing those certain things does help. Then we have a third way to get better which this could be controversial but play it with friends a lot of times games are more enjoyable and a lot easier to grind in when you can talk to your friends because you aren't so focused on the game which has personally helped me in a lot of games for example, this one game I play a game called bee swarm simulator requires like a legitimate year or more to get in what you call end game which is when you're at the end of the game in progress and have almost all of the best items unlike me I’m only in mid game which means I’m in the middle of the game in progress and it sometimes really sucks grinding a week for one item, which is why friends make it more enjoyable because they can really help time just past by when playing games.