INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Worrying about falling in love with your friend could cloud your thoughts and feelings about your friendship. If you're feeling attracted to your friend, it may be worth remembering how you became friends and why you value that person's friendship. Then think about everything you would potentially give up if you acted on any romantic urges you have.  Lingering romantic feelings have the potential to complicate or even ruin strong friendships. As friends, you should be able to talk about dating other people without feeling jealous or desirous. If you can't do this, you may need to spend some time apart. While you may fear falling in love with your friend, it's much more likely that what you actually experience is attraction or desire. This is a good thing, though, as attraction tends to fade fairly quickly if the feelings are not acted upon.  Examine whether you have a history of seeking out unavailable partners. This may give you some insight into your dating patterns and help you learn to break out of those patterns.  Change requires action on your part. You will need to actively change the way you think about your friend to stop seeing them as a potential romantic partner. Try to catch yourself whenever you have romantic or sexual thoughts about your friend. Wear a rubber band around your wrist and snap the band against your skin to stop unwanted thoughts as soon as they arise.  It may help reduce your attraction to your friend if you think of them as more of a sibling or close family member. Thinking about the person in this way may reduce your feelings of attraction over time. A lack of personal boundaries can quickly make a crush on your friend get intense or even uncomfortable. Remember that your friendship is valuable to you and that engaging in a romantic or sexual relationship with your friend could ruin things.  Remain friends, but restrain yourself from doing boyfriend/girlfriend things. For example, avoid holding hands, snuggling intimately, or kissing. Consider limiting your interactions or outings. Try limiting yourself to hanging out once a week. If seeing your friend one-on-one is not a good idea, you may need to spend time together with a group of friends. Being around other people can create more of a social setting while removing some of the temptation and romantic tension that might exist if you and your friend were alone.  Make up excuses if your friend wants to get together one-on-one, or stick to spending time alone together in public places. For example, get coffee or go to the park instead of spending time at one another's homes. It's up to you to decide whether you will tell your other friends about your feelings. If there's any chance your other friends would reveal your feelings or make fun of you, you may want to avoid telling them. Revealing your feelings to a friend who doesn't reciprocate could make that friend feel uncomfortable, confused, or even frustrated.  Even if you think you could talk to your friend about anything, talking about having romantic feelings for that friend could permanently change the dynamic of your friendship.  See if setting some boundaries and spending less time with your friend causes your feelings to start to subside. Your feelings may resolve on your own and you won't need to bring it up with your friend. If your friend is already in a relationship (or you are in a relationship) or has already expressed that they are not interested in you romantically, then you should not reveal your feelings and instead work on moving on to someone else. It may, however, become necessary for you to have an honest discussion with your friend about how you feel. If the feelings won't go away, or your friend has told you they are hurt and confused because you are pulling away, it might be a good idea to tell them what's going on.

SUMMARY: Define your friendship. Overcome attraction. Set appropriate boundaries. Spend time in groups. Try keeping your feelings to yourself.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Education scholars continue to debate whether learning styles are useful teaching and learning practices, or even how we can define what a learning style is. While it is difficult for researchers to scientifically test and analyze how useful learning styles are, they can help us think about how we retain and process information. The three most common learning styles are visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. These three appear in the majority of different theories about learning styles and are broad ways to understand how we process new information. It is important to understand that we may use different learning styles for different tasks and at different times.  Visual learners learn best when they can read and look at pictures and charts. Auditory learners learn best when they are able to listen to information. Kinesthetic learners learn best when they are able to be hands on by touching and doing. Learning styles are not set in stone. Your learning style will change over time as you develop new habits and come across skills that you learn in different ways. To identify your learning style, spend time thinking about a lesson or skill that you recently learned. This should be a skill that you feel that you learned very well in a short period of time. How did you go about learning it?  If you learned the skill by reading about it and looking at pictures that relate to the topic, you may be a visual learner. If you learned the skill by listening to a lecture or an expert presenting on the task, you may be an auditory learner. If you learned the skill by doing experiments or other hands on activities, you may be a kinesthetic learner. We all receive and process information in different ways.  You may favor one learning style in some subjects and favor a different learning style in a different subject. In order to learn how to make your learning style work best for you, it is helpful to work through the process with a goal in mind.  Pick a topic that is relatively small in scope. If you pick something like learning a new foreign language, it will be difficult to gauge your success. You could pick a topic like learning how to sew, learning about a particular battle in a war, or learning about a historical site in your city. This will help you to think through your learning style and gives you an opportunity to try out new learning techniques. Learning styles are not set in stone. The ways that we learn change over time, can be influenced by the topic that we learn, and are influenced by our environments. It is important to remember that while you may identify closely with one learning style, we can all benefit from practicing good study methods and dedicating time to learning new topics.  We will not be able to tailor our learning environments exactly to our learning styles. Whether you are in school or out of school, we learn in environments that are influenced by other learners and the people who teach us. We tend to have the most autonomy over our learning when we are outside of a classroom. This could mean studying on your own or in a non-school environment, like at home or at work. These are the environments where we can use study skills that are tailored to complement our learning styles.

SUMMARY: Understand different learning styles. Find your style. Identify a topic you want to learn. Understand the scope of learning styles.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Attach your SD card adapter to one of your Mac's USB or USB-C ports, then plug the SD card itself into the adapter. If you have an older Mac, your Mac may have an SD card slot on its right side. If so, you can plug the SD card label side-up and gold connectors-first into the slot. In some cases, having one read-only file can cause the whole SD card to lock down until the file is switched to "Read and Write" mode. You can check a file's status by clicking it, clicking File, clicking Get Info, and looking at the "Sharing & Permissions" heading. If your file is read-only, change it to "Read and Write" status to see if that removes your SD card's digital write protection. Click the magnifying glass-shaped icon in the top-right corner of the screen. A search bar will appear in the middle of the screen. Type disk utility into the search bar, then double-click Disk Utility in the search results. Click your SD card's name in the upper-left side of the Disk Utility window. It's a tab near the top of the Disk Utility window. Doing so will prompt First Aid to begin running on your SD card. If prompted, follow any on-screen instructions while First Aid runs. If your SD card is locked down due to an error, the error will be fixed by First Aid.

SUMMARY:
Plug your SD card into your Mac. Look for a read-only file. Open Spotlight . Open Disk Utility. Select your SD card. Click First Aid. Allow First Aid to scan the SD card.