10/06/2026
Meet Woodfin Millay Billingsly. Woodfin has been an Academic Success Coach and Technology Assistance Peer Tutor since August of 2024. That means they can help you figure out how to study, plan your projects, and access your D2L and other technology tools available from Kish.
Do you have study tips or college success ideas to share?
Prepare for studying before you start. Organize what you're going to be using beforehand so you can find it easily and don't have to stop in the middle to find a pencil, paper, eraser, calculator, et cetera. Figure out and write down what chapters & pages you need to review, use the index/table of contents to find where each section is placed in your textbook. Try to ask any broad questions you may need answered to start an assignment, project, or study session a few days before you start - to give professors time to respond. Try your hand at making a structured plan before you start studying where you list out the concepts, questions, problems and topics you need to focus on, and in what order.
What was your favorite subject in school?
I have always been a Science nerd. As someone majoring in Biology, anything about the world, environmental cycles, bugs, animals or plants always held my interest. The intricacies of our planet, how everything has evolved to work together and make sustaining, viable, thriving ecosystems delights me. In college, learning about how humans affect, both positively and negatively, the environment, makes me feel like I'm learning what I was always supposed to be learning.
What’s your favorite food or type of cuisine?
I’m a big fan of Chinese American cuisine like orange chicken, sesame chicken, crab rangoon, as well as fried rice and stir-fry. I’m also a big fan of pollo burritos from small, hole-in-the-wall restaurants throughout Northern Illinois.
If you could have any superpower or magical ability, what would you want it to be?
The ability to teleport. The ability to go wherever I want without travel would make my life much easier and more enjoyable. I’d love to visit the tops of mountains, oceans, and see penguins, okapis, shoebills, phasmids, and see anything and everything I can.
