About

Welcome to TOOMA: Stragies for Students. In this blog I hope to help students of all grades achieve success by providing helpful tips and strategies for going through their school experience.

By reading this blog, you as a student may learn to:

• Manage your time and resources effectively
• Deal with home work swiftly and accurately
• Maximize chances of academic success
• Dramatically reduce stress from school work

How can all this be accomplished? Simple.

In How Children Fail, John Holt writes about "strategists," students who "will turn to other means, illegitimate means, that wholly defeat whatever purpose the task giver may have had in mind."

Be a strategist.

Read the first post for more information.

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Is this satire?
While I very much enjoy quoting notable and respectable authors and thinkers out of context or to apply their advice in highly unorthodox ways, the message is not facetious. This blog is for students who have no choice but to attend school but still want a life at the same time.

What does "TOOMA" stand for?
"TOOMA" stands for "talking out of my ass." To "talk out of one's ass" is an idiomatic expression usually meaning "to speak unknowledgeably about a subject." In this blog, TOOMA refers to perhaps the most important and frequently used student strategy. The TOOMA strategy (also known as BSing) involves disguising the unknowledgeable nature of an assignment with a combination of verbosity, equivocation, tangents, and redundancy.

Are you encouraging students to cheat?
I am encouraging students not to be cheated.

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Contact.
Please email me if you have questions, encounter unique problems while attempting these strategies, or if you have student success tips and strategies you wish to share.