We’ve shown you how to pirate movies and cover your tracks on the internet. We’re going to keep being bad. Here’s how to get into a club, bar or Chuck E. Cheese if you’re under the age limit.
I’m not so concerned with legality because I think justice trumps the law. I’m a huge youth rights advocate. I draw parallels between a sign that says “21 and over only” and “Whites only.” Age limits are an unjust social barrier that young people face every day. Say what you will about the drinking age itself. There should be no age discrimination when it comes to just plain hanging out at a bar or club. That’s what age limits come right down to: a plain-as-day rights violation.
I could go on and on arguing against the drinking age – enough with all that. Now that I’m over 21, I have no use for these tactics. Use them to weasel your way into age-restricted establishments. If nothing else, think of them as civil disobedience.
The typical piece of advice is to get a fake ID. I’ll cover that too, but I think you can go without it.
Okay, so my Flip Video camera arrived today along with a lighting kit for the podcast. I’m officially obsessed. Here’s a quickie I shot about securing your bike to what I call “wheel racks.”
The scenario is common. As the semester progresses, long-term projects began to pile up. A research paper for your history class. A big programming project for computer science. The articles you promised the school newspaper.
This mess of deadlines soon becomes too intricate to decode. It’s too much to handle. You freeze, and then end up scrambling, right before the deadlines, again and again, pumping your stress to dangerous pressures while handing in dangerously shitty work.
To many this is just college. Stretches of drunken stupidity followed by bursts of stressed out chaos. But it doesn’t have to be this way. There’s no magic solution: hard work is hard work. But one simple hack can make a big difference…
If you’re hosting a party this President’s Day Weekend, you may want to check out CO-ED Magazine’s article on some good double-duty ice-breaking games. Check it out:
Wooooo, party. Mardi Gras! Let’s go sin. Yeaaaaaaaah. Who cares that it’s flu season?!
Cough. I’m sick. I’ve had the flu since yesterday. I’ve put in a solid 30 hours of sleep (no exaggeration) and should be 100% by tomorrow. A 48-hour turnaround on the flu isn’t too bad. Here’s how I did it:
Scott, the podcast camera guy, and I are both on Laser Squad Bravo, the LMU improv team. While not performing with UCSD’s Foosh, racing go karts and partying to no end this past weekend (thanks guys), we got to thinking: many rules in good classic improv are generally good rules to follow in everyday life. Enjoy.
While us here at HackCollege basically pass our exams before we even start taking them, some lesser peons (like those that don’t read the site) can use some extra help every once in awhile. If you need some extra help, then this tasty post might be just what the waiter ordered:
If you will be seated on a plane, flying home for the holidays, it might be a good idea to request a seat in the back. According to a recent study:
Real-world crash stats [...] suggest that the farther back you sit, the better your odds of survival. Passengers near the tail of a plane are about 40 percent more likely to survive a crash than those in the first few rows up front.
That’s the conclusion of an exclusive Popular Mechanics study that examined every commercial jet crash in the United States, since 1971, that had both fatalities and survivors.
In 11 of the 20 crashes, rear passengers clearly fared better. Only five accidents favored those sitting forward. Three were tossups, with no particular pattern of survival. In one case, seat positions could not be determined. [Popular Mechanics, via LifeHack.org]
We’ve all learned how to outline a paper. Roman numerals, letters, numbers, and nonsense, according to Cal over at Study Hacks. He recommends constructing a topic skeleton instead.
Forget hierarchies. Your outline should capture the topics you want to discuss in your paper. A topic is more general than a specific fact or observation, but less general that a multi-argument discussion. For example:
“Letter to Philip Johnson suggesting chapel idea” is too specific to be a topic. “The conception and construction of the Rothko chapel” is too general to be a topic. “Rothko’s Courting of Philip Johnson” is a perfect topic.
Topics are what you’ll capture with our outlining process.
After you’ve created your topic skeleton, simply dump all the quotations you’ve gathered from your visits to the library, and there you are. Arrange the information, organize transitions, and that should be it. Sounds pretty good to me. And much faster.
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