October 2007
14 posts
Daily Education: Looking Up From the Gutter:... →
How to Solve Hard Problem Sets Without Staying Up... →
What’s the M Matter - Part 2 | UniversityBlog →
4 Ways to Radically Improve your Chances of... →
Answer Syndrome: Quick And Dirty Research With... →
I’ve been meaning to write something up like this for ages, but Lifehacker beat me to it! Google Books is a godsend for tracking down certain types of information, and I often use it to track down quotes I can’t quite place even in a book I own.
NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month | DIY... →
I know quite a few people who do this every year. Personally, the very thought of this scares the bejeesus out of me - but, we all do things in different ways and this may be just the sort of thing many of you would like. So follow the link and find out more about National Novel Writing Month.
Concentration strategies for students | 43 Folders →
Study Hacks » The Art of Stealth Studying: How To... →
Imagine only having to study for one hour the day before a test? No more stress. No more long nights.
Improving Academic Presentation Style | 43 Folders →
Looks like some interesting discussion pertinent to many of us going on over at Merlin Mann’s 43 folders.
“If everything works correctly, technology is incredibly empowering. But that...”
– How to Hold a Clear and Quiet Mind Against High Tech Distractions | PickTheBrain
Do you suffer from bad luck? | lifehack.org →
Generally speaking, this is right on. Very little can damn a person better than thinking it’s everyone and everything else’s fault (even when it is.) Why? Because for something to be useful in this context, you need to be able to do something about it. Does your professor suck? Sure. But them sucking doesn’t let you off the hook - you’re still responsible for learning...
Simplifying Our Lives: Is It A Lost Cause? »... →
Definitely worth a think. I wonder about this a great deal myself.
Latin Lovers Flock to Vicipaedia - Chronicle.com →
I think this is simply brilliant. Latin is such an amazing language, it’s a shame it has disappeared so thoroughly.
Getting the initial work out of the way, every... →
September 2007
37 posts
academhack » Blog Archive » How to Zotero →
5 Tips for Becoming a Leader in your Student... →
10 Simple Ways to Make Windows Load Faster |... →
How To: Use a Digital Timer to Get Things Done -... →
Writing and Remembering: Why We Remember What We... →
I want, I learn, I do, I get - lifehack.org →
Study Hacks » Monday Master Class: Use Focused... →
Study Hacks » Blog Archive » College Chronicles... →
Writing Essays - Don’t Fool Yourself «... →
HackCollege » How To Memorize Anything →
Site Down
Something is happening at the server end with the site. It’s been going on for hours, though - I’m about as happy as you can imagine I’d be.
Education: Learn a Foreign Language with Mango -... →
academhack » Blog Archive » Presentation Tools →
NYTimes.com Goes Free →
The Paper of Record now free!
Jisho: Japanese to English translator for the Mac... →
OpenOffice.org: 2.3 Released →
For those of you who like your office software free!
eMusic to offer DRM-free audiobooks - Download... →
The Good People at DownloadSquad are reporting eMusic will soon have audiobooks! Cheaper and without all the insipid DRM iTunes puts on them. Audiobooks are great in some lifestyles, and this is a great boon.
Keeping Track of References | Scholastici.us:... →
Wanting information on how to do things? You know, recent information. Instead of just doing a google search, click that little more arrow and select “Blogs.” A lot of info can be found that way, and you can sort it by date!
Advice for Students: How to Talk to Professors -... →
Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Wikipedia Tricks -... →
Complete Your First Book with these 9 Simple... →
Scott H Young » 50 Tricks to Study Better, Faster... →
236 Open Courseware Collections, Podcasts, and... →
Study Hacks » Blog Archive » Monday Master Class:... →
40+ Free Windows Apps For You | Technology Bites →
Advice for Students: Taking Notes that Work -... →
newsmap →
The key to being a good student is being well rounded, I think. Part of that is keeping up with world events, and newsmap does an amazing job of that. It’s almost captivating…
Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Back to School Tools for... →
Nothing all that new here, but useful nonetheless. I will say that if LitSum is the site I’m thinking of, it sucks. The PDF generator is silly to even get a mention, and Schoolhouse is indeed a great piece of software. I’ve mentioned Software for Starving Students myself, and I may have ticked off the guy who does Notely with my review.
Beware the campus book store, kids! Mine likes to keep the CD’s that go with the texts….
The 5 Keys to Success in Foreign Language Learning... →
In general, these seem a bit self-evident. We’ll put some meat on em in a bit.
There’s always a wheat vs. chafe quotient in dealing with blogs. I truly do hate, however, when the discrepency moves beyond that into “diamonds and shit.” I don’t like digging through shit.
How to Learn More and Study Less | zen habits →
I’m not sure how I feel about this yet. I need to think it over more. I’m a holistic learner myself, and while it does give me some easy A’s from time to time, it also can be problematic. I’m also not certain everyone can be a holistic learner. It bears some thinking about.
Fun Tech Talk » 5 Ways To Speed Up Windows Vista →
30 Happiness Tips: Program Your Life for Optimum... →
Save your back...
Dragging a ton of big books around all day? Have a Calculus book heavier than your laptop?
Head to the campus copy machine and copy the next few weeks of pages you’ll need in class. Staple them together and take those to class instead. It’ll cost a couple of bucks at most, but make your life much easier!
(just remember to keep your pages updated!)