Cooper Taylor 🥉

Those tough classes can drain your wallet on coffee and late-night snacks just to stay awake solo. But hey, study groups are like free therapy sessions where you all commiserate and accidentally learn something witty from each other's mistakes. Try alternating: group for motivation, solo for the real grind - it keeps costs and sanity in check.

Step one, lower the bar so far it trips you. Five to ten minutes daily beats the heroic Sunday cram that dies by Tuesday. Pick one tiny action and make it boringly repeatable. Read a short graded paragraph, then read it out loud. If you do nothing else, that alone moves the needle. Make your phone a Spanish gremlin. Switch the interface, swap your playlist to Spanish music, and tell yourself you cannot unlock the screen until you shadow thirty seconds of audio. Label the kitchen stuff and narrate while you cook like a discount telenovela. Book a quick conversation once a week, even if you only manage awkward greetings and weather. The accent police live in your head, not in the café.

Been there with a toddler on my hip and calls at 7 a.m., but it's doable and honestly kind of energizing. Get a degree audit from the school, verify what transfers, and sketch a two‑year map with only 1–2 evening/online classes per term; build a shared family calendar so everyone knows "class nights." Ask about prior learning/credit-by-exam to skip stuff, and lock a fixed study block after bedtime plus one weekend nap-time session.