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3 Ways to Overcome the Midsemester Blerghs

3 Ways to Overcome the Midsemester Blerghs

[Image courtesy of Walt Stoneburner. Licensed under CC BY 2.0.] This time of year, it can be tempting to drag your feet on school work. The weather is cold, midterms are approaching and awful, and you’ve reached a point where class seems close enough to done that it’s not worth bothering. If you’re a sophomore ...

A Few Tips For Dating a Nerd

A Few Tips For Dating a Nerd

I think we all do.In honor of Valentine's Day, I thought it would be appropriate to share this old post I wrote awhile ago for our friends at College Candy. It's written for a female audience, but the tips are pretty applicable to girl nerds and guy nerds alike. Enjoy! If you haven’t date

No, Hacking College Does Not Mean Blowing off Learning

No, Hacking College Does Not Mean Blowing off Learning

Hacking your way through college does not mean you'll miss out on your education. In fact, you may learn even more. Image courtesy of Flickr user Nazareth College and licensed under CC by 2.0. Readers of this site get their projects done faster, don't worry about losing work from an unsaved paper,

Free Alternatives to Office and iWork

Free Alternatives to Office and iWork

Image Courtesy: CNET News BlogThe Web 2.0 era has changed the internet so much. The browser has become some many different things. Some of the things they can do now, is create documents, spreadsheets and even presentations all on the web. Where could one do such a thing? Well, as long as you have a ...

College Admissions Hell

While HackCollege has an audience of (surprise!) college students, there are many readers of the site that are soon-to-be college students. Those students are probably just finishing up college admissions packets. We haven’t written much on college admissions much on the site, but it’s definitely a significant part of the college process for those in ...

Forbes Releases Its Own College Rankings

Forbes Releases Its Own College Rankings

Before applying to college, many students will look through U.S. News & World Report’s America’s Best Colleges. The higher the ranking, the higher the prestige. And hopefully, higher the starting salary. And who wouldn’t want to attend a high-ranked college or university? From graduation on, that school’s name will stick to your resume. And if ...

Technology in College — For its own sake

Technology in College — For its own sake

This was an article originally written for the Los Angeles Loyolan, the student-run newspaper at LMU. We thought most HackCollege readers would also find it interesting. I’m part of the last generation of “Film Production” majors to go through LMU. The School of Film and Television is phasing out the major and already, the sophomores ...

Outside HackCollege: A Students’ Reaction to the MPAA

From time to time, I write for Portfolio.com‘s tech section as a junior correspondent of sorts. My most recent post, published today, is a reaction to the MPAA overestimating the effect of student piracy and the rest of the web media–in turn–hastily criticizing the MPAA. The point of my quick post is that people are ...

A Juicy JuicyCampus.com Follow-Up

Much to our unwillingness to help such an intellectual brain dead site with some extra publicity, we completely neglected the JuicyCampus blog. For those who missed it, a student posting on JuicyCampus caused some problems three weeks ago at LMU when a student. HackCollege broke the news to the world about the incident (not really). ...

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