There's a lot of talk about telling students how to study for your class, how to do their work so they will pass, playing games to make them feel less stressed. Many of these techniques sound like we are sending our kids off to their first day of kindergarten or teaching grade schoolers, but not college students. I expect my students to take notes. I expect them to organize their notes. I see too many instructors giving students study guides...to the point the student cannot function when being tested from a book because they don't know how to discern pertinent information without it being given to them on a silver platter. There is a lot of good information here, but I am not being paid to play games to make a student feel 'more at ease'. Are we coddling them too much? Or have we lowered our expectations regarding the students' abilities to actually be students?