I built the guide I wish someone had given me.

I wasn't always a top student. For years, my report cards led to the same conversation at home: why aren't you studying enough?

The truth was, I was studying — just not in a way that worked. In 7th grade, I stopped trying to study longer and started experimenting with studying differently. Testing myself instead of rereading. Spacing things out instead of cramming.

Over time, those small experiments turned into a real system. Later, I learned that a lot of it lined up with actual research in memory and learning science — I just hadn't known the terms for it yet.

That system is what took me from an average student to one of the top of my class. StudyBee exists so other students don't have to spend years finding it the way I did.