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How to Score Free Sunglasses

How to Score Free Sunglasses

Note: This post is for entertainment purposes only. HackCollege does not condone this act of immoral behavior. Spring break is finally here, and you are probably thinking to yourself,  ”I do not own enough pairs of sunglasses…” (never actually the case because everybody owns like 6 pairs.)  Nevertheless, everybody always wants more sunglasses!  And because the weather will ...

Facebook Tips

Facebook Tips

If the internet is the wild west, Facebook is your homestead. And while everything can (and, for better or worse, does) go on the internet proper, Facebook is your little corner of the prairie to call your own. So are you doing it right? Let’s find out. You do not have 1,500 friends No matter ...

5 Tips to Save Money on Groceries

5 Tips to Save Money on Groceries

Every college student knows that food costs money and unless you want to live off of ramen noodles, you need to be smart about how you spend your food budget. Here are five tips to saving money on groceries: 1.) Never Shop Hungry: Shopping while hungry is always a recipe for disaster. If you shop ...

Achieve Your Resolutions: Evernote

Achieve Your Resolutions: Evernote

Over the next few months, as people draft their New Year’s Resolutions and 2012 predictions, I’ll be providing tools to help you Achieve Your Resolution – valuable webapps and web sites that I’ve found in the past year that help achieve popular New Year’s Resolutions. Evernote is a popular app available online, for Windows and Mac ...

Make an “Internet TV”

Make an “Internet TV”

There seems to be a contest going on between Apple and Google about whose “Internet TV” is going to finally take off.  However,  I find their versions of “Internet TV” to be pointless when one can create one themselves in about 30 seconds. These days all of the content that is available through a television service ...

How To Visit Another College

College is great. It’s basically Hogwarts, except instead of magic there’s booze, and instead of noseless wizards trying to kill you, there’s more booze. Fair trade, I say. But as good as your college is, eventually you get used to it. You have your friends and your routine and suddenly that Freshman year excitement moves ...

Little Snapper Makes Saving Research Easy

Little Snapper Makes Saving Research Easy

Like most college students these days, I’m finding more and more of my research material online, compared to in books like before. In fact, some of my papers are entirely based off of webpages and web related research material. However, I’m prone to losing site that I find and quote when it comes down to ...

Do Something Uncomfortable

Do Something Uncomfortable

This past Thursday, I went to my usual Thursday meeting, and then wanted to hang out with a colleague from that meeting at Starbucks. Pretty normal for my life – just catching up with a good friend over coffee and if I felt daring, a pastry or two. Instead, in the building on campus where ...

Adjust your Color Temperature and Sleep Better with F.lux

Adjust your Color Temperature and Sleep Better with F.lux

If you’re like me, you probably procrastinate a lot. And if you procrastinate a lot, inevitably that means you’re going to staying up late writing a paper or finishing a problem set. Even when I wasn’t doing schoolwork at night, I still found myself browsing the web and watching videos – just staring at a ...