11:56 am on December 16th, 2006 by Rosario Doriott
Wow, I wish Yale University were on their list of schools… PickAProf gets real information from the colleges/universities, themselves, and compiles grade averages per class, per professor. So the deal is: If you’re unsure whether to take class A or class B, why not go with the professor who gives out more As?
Sounds good enough for me to already check the site out.
But, even better, PickAProf also offers Facebook login, a planner, and a book exchange! See what classes your friends are taking. Plan it all out. And, when you’re done, get rid of the book!
(Oh, and as my friend Lindsay just pointed out to me: RateMyProfessors is a good resource, too.)
As I flip through the Internet, I tend to get stopped by a few websites. I’m a huge procrastinator, like many college students, and the Internet has probably been nothing but an interruption to me lately, but, hey, I like it. Therefore, I’d like to show you all my newest find: DareJunkies.
If you like YouTube and if you’ve got the time and a video camera, why not win your share of $5000? DareJunkies sets up a few contests –some “dares”. Users of the website videotape themselves performing the “dare”, submit it, and hope they get the most votes.
And if that’s not enough:
We want to see your best videos. Did you accidentally fall thru a window doing a keg stand, and someone filmed it? Great. We want to see it. The top 5 most viewed videos wins a $100 prize each month.
So take a second and check out DareJunkies! The current contest ends December 31st.
We don’t like to brag, but we’re the coolest when it comes to this.
It didn’t take much work, but we modified some code on our site to give you guys the option to share stuff through Facebook. Just click on the little blue “F” at the bottom of every post.
As far as we know, we’re the only site on the web that can do this, but then again, we haven’t looked very hard. Wink.
Granted, this is probably true, but aren’t we the iGeneration? With “lol” and “brb” and all our very own “blogs”? We’re huge on Facebook and MySpace and YouTube, but… Maybe it stops there?
I don’t know. But, either way, it shouldn’t! So since HackCollege is here to turn you into the very best “Student 2.0″ you can possibly be, I’d like to give you all a quick rundown of the terms we will be using in this class:
Asynchronous: adj. Not in real time (like responses that do not occur simultaneously, such as a discussion board).
Blog: n., v. An online journal that displays entries in reverse chronological order. Comments are generally possible. And HackCollege is a very popular one!
(Web) Browser: n. The software you use to interact with text, images, video over the Internet. Popular examples include Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Netscape.
DRM: Digital Rights Management. Allowing publishers and copyright owners to control access to digital data.
F2F: Face-to-Face. In other words, a meeting in “real life”.
I’m right smack in the middle of finals week, and that means I am more prone to distraction and procrastination than ever. But let me show you a little something before I get back to writing my last paper of the semester.
An Introduction:
I’m enrolled in the honors program here at LMU. The LMU honors program is a little different compared to most colleges. There are only about 30 people from each class year in the program, and we all take the same humanities classes, regardless of our major (or how much we beg and plead). I had to take a class called “Republic to Prince” for the honors core.
“Republic to Prince” is a western civ class. I am not interested in western civ.
9. Be cheap [about alcohol]
* Buy the cheap stuff. Pabst Blue Ribbon and Old English 40 oz. bottles come to mind.
* Buy in bulk. A cheap 5th of Vodka might cost about the same as a drink or two at a bar.
* Drink where the specials are. Some college bars and dance clubs have pitcher specials, 1 dollar drink specials, no cover charge, or other specials for people going out early or going out on slower nights.
* Pre-game if you do drink heavily.
* Don’t bring much money with you to limit how much you drink and spend.
* Hit other people’s parties.
15. If you are buying new [books], check for an “international” edition. The book will be almost exactly the same, except for maybe some Chinese characters on the front, AND it will be exponentially cheaper.
21. Oatmeal is fast, filling, and affordable.
60. Beg your parents - they will feel a connection to you by letting you use their stuff or by buying you new stuff. The more they buy the less you have to. [Thanks, Mom! Thanks, Dad!]
57. Play on the web [for entertainment]! The web is a virtually limitless land which will allow you to deeply explore any topic of interest, and participate in communities discussing those topics. You can also play games like Zuma or visit true time waster sites like HotorNot.com. Searching around online auctions like eBay may help you find deals while also being entertained by the prospects of bidding and winning.
72. Get a few friends together to pitch in for the price of an annual membership at a place like Sam’s Club or Costco.
73. Buy in bulk. You’ll save money per unit for a pack of twelve bars of soap versus singles.
99. Shop for your personal items at a discount retailer. Money strategists suggest buying the “store brand” as a cost-saving alternative, as well.
111. Volunteer for a medical study. Most do not require much time and you get paid!
Whenever I’m searching for something inappropriate on Google, like communism, I often have trouble getting to exactly the right site. And I also don’t like doing more work than I have to.
In the spirit of studying for finals and not doing work, I’ll just link to a trusted outside site, College v2.
But what I hadn’t seen was all the re-interpretations of them! So when 10 Zen Monkeys decided to put up a pretty good list of them, I actually felt better about procrastinating a little by surfing the internet. After all, laughing is a good internal workout.
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