January 2008 - Posts

• 10 FREE Online Services: Free E-mail, File Storage, and File Sharing for Students on a Budget

  January 31, 2008

  If you’re a college student on a pretty tight budget, you’ve probably already mastered the gourmet Ramen-noodle dinner and the art of interior decorating with crate-box and garage-sale furniture. But while you’re limiting how much your offline lifestyle Read More... Filed under: Google, Gmail, Apple, Software, Microsoft, Mac, Windows, Macintosh, The Students Blog, College Students, AOL, AIM, Yahoo, Online tools, Ramen, web 2.0, OmniDrive, Free, hosting, file sharing, Outlook, email, IMAP, ripway, Hotmail, xdrive, Windows Vista, file storage, Mac and Cheese, Google Talk, Zoho, pop3

• 5 College Myths Debunked - Part II

  January 24, 2008 09:05 AM

  In our last post , we gave the real story behind five of the most common college myths. And now we’re going at it again. Here are five more popular college untruths, along with the reality check that goes with them. Myth #1: Credit card companies wouldn’t Read More... Filed under: Education, College, College Major, Apple, School, Mac, Books, Blog, The Students Blog, textbooks, shopping, NextStudent, College Student, college fact, college Myths, Study Abroad, High School, Graduate School, Cash Cow, Marketability, GPA, Credit Cards, Internships, MacBook Air

• 5 College Myths Debunked - Part I

  January 22, 2008

  Whether they started as college-student urban legends, misguided information from your roommates, or Hollywood stereotypes you’ve absorbed from watching Old School over and over and over, a lot of the supposed college “truths” you think you know have Read More... Filed under: Education, School, The Students Blog, Harvard, Yale, NextStudent, paul graham, College Student, stereotypes, Celebrities, Scholarship Search Engine, Dr. Marlyn McGrath Lewis, college fact, college graduates, OLD SCHOOL, college Myths, High Paying Jobs, Forbes, Urban Legends, Ivy League Schools, Hollywood, Forbes.com, College Search, Scholarships, admissions essay, Fountain of Youth

• Power Napping Is Like Yoga for Your Brain

  January 14, 2008 04:13 PM

  Recent research has shown that no quick fix fills your personal energy tank with more high-octane juice than a well-executed power nap. If you do it right, a 20-minute afternoon siesta can hook you up with enough bonus fuel and brain power for the rest Read More... Filed under: Education, Stress, Sleep, Exercise, The Students Blog, memory, Uncle Sam, imagination, La-Z-Boy, Dr. Sarah Mednick, healthy heart, dr. mednick, learning, sleep aid, napping, Yoga, creativity, ear plugs, sleeping tips, power naps, alertness, REM Sleep, melatonin, productivity, College readng, Stan Lee, flute music, walgreens, brain power, jackie chan, fitness tips, grogginess

• 3 Quick Ways to Cut Your Textbook Costs

  January 07, 2008

  Are you shelling out hundreds of dollars for textbooks each semester and always ending up with those two or three pricey books that you only ever cracked open once or twice? Some of the textbooks on your syllabus, even if they’re labeled “required reading,” Read More... Filed under: College, Tips, Books, textbooks, college costs, NextStudent, college books, online books, anthology, book buys, campus library, poems, Bedford Reader, ninja tactics, the students' blog, short stories, fall semester, essays, lecture notes, online textbooks, College anthologies, buying books, syllabus

• 5 Online Tools to Help You Cite Your Research Papers

  January 02, 2008 12:11 PM

  There’s nothing like MLA or APA citation formatting requirements to add even more tedious hours to your research paper that’s already dragged on for weeks. But with these easy-to-use online tools, you can get picture-perfect bibliographies and Works Cited Read More... Filed under: Microsoft, MLA, APA, School, Books, Word, Kinght Cite, Citation Machine, Online tools, Source Aid, cse, Works Cited, Journal, Carmun Easy Bibliography Formatting, Easy Bib, calvin college, Turabian, MyBib Pro, College Papers, Cite, Citing, Research Papers, Chicago, online citation, Bibliographies, Website