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Guest Post: Everything You Need to Know About Auto Insurance

Guest Post: Everything You Need to Know About Auto Insurance

This is a guest post by Michael Bock, a junior at the University of Texas. Aside from school, Michael is also a staff writer for Lifed. There he writes about life hacks, health, finance and productivity tips. Auto insurance: It’s something that nobody really wants to buy. After all, in a world consumed by instant ...

Guest Post: How To Hack Your Environment For Maximum Learning

Guest Post: How To Hack Your Environment For Maximum Learning

This guest post was written by Andrianes Pinantoan. Andrianes is currently studying a TAFE course to be a freelance writer. When not working, he can be found with a camera in hand. You can find him on Google+. Back when I was in secondary school in Singapore, the usual place students went to study was McDonald’s. ...

Guest Post: 2012 Spring PennApps Hackathon – Simplicity

Guest Post: 2012 Spring PennApps Hackathon – Simplicity

This post is by Alice Lee, a student at the University of Pennsylvania who helped to plan and organize this year’s PennApps Student Hackathon. The fourth biannual PennApps hackathon took place in Penn’s engineering quad, where over 180 students and 22 sponsors hacked for 48 hours straight. Simple is hard to make. That seems kind of counter-intuitive, ...

Guest Post: How to Deal With A Disrespectful Roommate

Guest Post: How to Deal With A Disrespectful Roommate

Today’s guest post is from a student who wishes to remain anonymous. Enjoy! Most of us will deal with a bad roommate situation at one point or another. These situations are difficult, because they affect you every day. This past semester I was blessed with a wonderful surprise. I dated a girl (who we’ll call ...

Guest Post: Using Simplenote and nvALT as a Student

Guest Post: Using Simplenote and nvALT as a Student

This post is by Carson Suggs, a junior at the University of Arizona who plans to graduate in December 2013. You can follow him on Twitter @crsnsggs.  There are numerous articles about the greatness of Notational Velocity (or nvALT, a fork of Notational Velocity) and Simplenote, but I haven’t seen anything that made these applications relevant for students. ...

Guest Post: You Suck At Studying: 3 Lessons from a College Hacker

Guest Post: You Suck At Studying: 3 Lessons from a College Hacker

Today’s guest post is by Ryan Nguyen, a UC Santa Barbara student who writes for our friends over at CollegeInfoGeek. Ryan is also a soon-to-be medical student, and blogs about his premed journey on PracticalPremed. Most students are terrible at studying. Perhaps it’s not entirely our’ fault. With so much emphasis in school placed on ...

Guest Post: How to Find a Job in a Down Economy

Guest Post: How to Find a Job in a Down Economy

Today’s guest post is by Stephanie Larson, a student at the University of Arizona in Tucson.  Graduating from college no longer puts you on the fast-track to getting a job. In fact, many recent college graduates are finding it difficult to get work in the current economic state. According to the New York Times, only ...

Guest Post: Yes, You Can Travel on a Student Budget

Guest Post: Yes, You Can Travel on a Student Budget

Today’s guest post is by Amanda Williams, a grad student with an insatiable lust for travel. If you’re interested in traveling around the world on a minuscule budget, Amanda writes frequently on the subject on her blog, A Dangerous Business. How to travel on a student budget This site is all about “hacking” college; finding tricks to ...