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Apply to Square’s Code Camp Contest

Apply to Square’s Code Camp Contest

If you are both female and an engineering student, hurry up and get your application together for Square’s first (ever) Code Camp Contest! Don’t be intimidated by the title — the Code Camp is a three day program held in one of the greatest cities in the world — San Francisco, California (Go Giants!). The ...

The Latest & Greatest Resources Online

The Latest & Greatest Resources Online

Bookmarking useful websites in college is on every student’s to do list. Unfortunately, shuffling through your pages and organizing your online tools can be a hassle for everyone. When organizing my own weekly bookmarks this morning, I lost track of time and ended up spending 2+ hours picking the right pages, organizing by categories and, ...

10 Online Food Delivery Services You Should Know About

10 Online Food Delivery Services You Should Know About

The number of nights where I lay in bed after a final with a petrified mind and body are countless. That being said, the chances that my section of the refridgerator has any consumable food is about zero percent. I realize that there are college students out there who decorate their fridge with a rainbow ...

Job & Internship Opportunities

Job & Internship Opportunities

The pressure to find a job or internship in this market is overwhelming students across the nation. How are some of your friends finding such useful websites? Where are they getting the right resume help, and how are they finding these random applications? Some of your friends probably had their jobs handed to them from ...

Creative Uses for QR Codes

Creative Uses for QR Codes

QR codes have been around since 1994. It was the Toyota subsidiary Denso Wave company that invented the two dimensional barcode in order to track vehicles during the manufacturing process. Here’s an image of one (in case you haven’t seen one before): Note: To scan the image above, download the free QR reader application on ...

Think before you speak.  Read before you think.

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

I understand that many of you are busy. Between school, jobs, meetings, and friends, there is hardly any time left to read a good book. You need to find time though, even if that means cutting video games out of the picture. You are probably rolling your eyes at the screen now. I get ...

If This, Then That: Recipes for the Internet

If This, Then That: Recipes for the Internet

    As children of the 90’s, we are truly unique to the world. We played with Gameboys, before they were available in color or 3D. We  used PCs from Microsoft, before Apple came along with the iPad. We were the first kids with cell phones, the first teenagers with smart phones. The world’s transition ...

Editing: A test you can’t cheat on

Editing: A test you can’t cheat on

No matter your major, you will be forced to write a paper at least once in your college career.   The problem with writing is that there is always room for improvement. Teachers love to see students take their first draft and rework it until the final. That means that even though you could ...