Background At many schools in America, undergraduate students can take a semester or two off, and then can resume their studies with no problems. But, some students might want to take a longer break: perhaps two or three years. After a break as long as two or three years, many schools require s...

Some admission applications ask what you've been doing in the years since you last left school. For example, work, military, parenting, volunteering, or caring for a sick family member. Some applicants might not have been doing much. Perhaps they spent a few years on video gaming, or on Reddit,...

Sometimes papers I receive for review will not have the tables and figures placed in the text body where the are referenced, but instead at the very end after the bibliography. I personally find that extremly irritating, as I have to scroll back and forth from the spot where a table or figure is ...