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3 Tips To Help You Get Smart About Your Studies

3 Tips To Help You Get Smart About Your Studies

Finals week is back with a vengeance. Five plus days filled with cramming, all-nighters and nail biters. It’s no surprise 70 percent of students confirmed in a recent survey that they are more stressed during finals week than any other time during the school year. This time around, do yourself a favor and come up ...

Guest Post: How To Get An Industry Influencer to Mentor You

Guest Post: How To Get An Industry Influencer to Mentor You

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 follow him on Twitter or  Google+.   In every industry, there are a few people whose opinions count more than others. Being able to ...

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: 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: Warning Signs of an Expensive Roommate

Guest Post: Warning Signs of an Expensive Roommate

If your roommate pinches pennies at Costco, he may save you money on bills and expenses. Photo courtesy of Flickr user David McKelvey and licensed under CC by 2.0 Today’s guest post is from Kiley Theiring, a student at Chapman University majoring in Film Production and minoring in Japanese. She like to write and play ...

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