Most of us are guilty of slugging down a cup of coffee to get our morning started. Drinking a cup before we study or start in on a project. The coffee tends to make us focus a little more and be a little sharper so this delicious elixir must be bad for us right?
Well not [...]

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Some people prefer to take a test that evaluates your personality and interests. Lots of colleges have access to these various tests, and if you were to talk to a counselor they could hook you up with a few. A great place to find out how to contact a guidance counselor is your school’s Admissions office. Most legitimate websites that offer valid Major/Career tests charge for them, but lots of educational institutions can hook you up with one of these tests for free.

Apparently, lots of great schools have their own YouTube accounts on this Educational version of the popular video site. Usually we go to YouTube to see a kitten lip-syncing to a Disney song or see another epic Fail Blog video. But now you can go and get a good look at a particular college, and in some cases, a particular class. Teachers are posting lectures, and students are posting campus tours. Seems pretty informative to me.

Why pay for a textbook that you may not be able to sell back?

That’s the question that lots of college students have faced over the years. But now a new company has found a solution: rent your books.

Within any college environment students demonstrate various study habits.  Many students approach their studies in a very methodical, organized manner in an attempt to make their studying as beneficial as possible.  They have a mind set that allows them to begin work on an assignment in advance.  However, a surprising number of students procrastinate studying, [...]

So it’s not too late to decide on your approach for the new year.
There’s a pretty good blog article I just read that could be helpful for anyone that wants to set some goals and stick to them and is using New Years as a good excuse to have some motivation.
In college, it’s good to [...]

A few tips for sending your next text in class without getting caught!

1. SILENT, SILENT, SILENT! I can’t stress this point enough. This should always be the first thing you do once you get to class. If you fail to do this and your phone goes off, you just put yourself on a Stage 5 [...]

…are the bane of my existence.
We’ve all been there. You wake up and start thinking about all the things you need to take with you to class that day. Let’s see, pen… paper… notebook… textbook? Nah. Any homework due? No, we just had to take that online quiz by 10:00 yesterd…OH F#@%!!!

Okay, so yet another test tomorrow and you procrastinated studying to the last day…again. Procrastination may be one of every college student’s favorite past times. We all suffer from this chronic illness and test after test you say, “this is the last time I am going to wait until the last minute to study!” But [...]