Sometimes what a startup needs is fuel: specifically, pizza and O’Reilly. This week’s featured desk space comes not from a single reader, but from a group of them in the form of startup company OpenStudy . The company, based out of Georgia Tech and Emory University in Atlanta, views “the world as one big study group where students should be able connect with others studying the same material and collaborate in real time,”... 

Today Id like to teach you a few simple concepts that will:Save you lots of unnecessary effortGet you on a fast-track to learning how to write an essay quickly and easilyTeach you what really makes a difference in essay writingYouve probably heard it  Read More →

This girl’s got the right idea. Photo courtesy of malias . Licensed under CC BY-2.0 . Everyone likes to have a different study environment. Some like pure silence, others like  Read More →

Image by Môsieur J. ( license ). Share “If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliché that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.” If you haven’t been living under a rock for the last few decades you know who John Lennon was. So let’s just get to three of my favourite tips from him. 1. Work for what you want. Instead of getting stuck in complacency. “If everyone demanded peace... 

 “If they have legalized prescription marijuana, they should legalize hookers,” Boulder comedian “Hippie Man” quipped at Comedy Works in Denver. “That would do more than Adyrol or weed can for my depression. It’s not far off”  Quips ab  Read More →

The Common Data Set can be a great tool for researching colleges and universities. You can learn what a Common Data Set is by reading the post that I wrote yesterday: Researching Colleges With the Common Data Set Today I’m going to explore how you can use the Common Data Set to gain insights into what admission officers are looking for at an individual school. For this example, I’m going to use Cal Tech’s CDS . Here’s... 

National Suicide Prevention week starts Sept. 5th and will continue through Sept. 11th. Suicide is a huge problem, perhaps even an epidemic on college campuses. Although their are a multitude of free or low-cost mental health services available to st  Read More →

Image courtesy of Flickr user quinnanya. Licensed under CC 2.0 BY-NC-SA. With the release of the Apple’s iPad last April, students around the globe dreamed of purchasing and reading their textbooks on the beautiful 10” color screen. Five months later, with the start of the new semester only days away, the quantity and quality of iPad eTextbook readers is scarce and poor. Among the contenders are Amazon’s Kindle App, CourseSmart’s... 

GoodReader will save all of your class files locally, so you can access them even when you’re offline. Well, I’m only a few days into classes this year and am already starting to consider my iPad as indispensable as my laptop.  Read More →

At the beginning of yet another college admission season, I want to share one of my favorite tools that can help anyone research colleges and universities.  The tool is called the Common Data Set . College and universities all over the country produce their own Common Data Set every year. The Common Data Set is a document about 32 pages long…  Read More →

In this week’s episode, we discuss an awesome infographic , what we keep on our desks, and some of our tech horror stories from the first weeks of school. Note: we’re using the html5  Read More →

The Disqus system is cleaner and has much better spam control. A lot of you guys may have noticed that the site has recently fallen victim to a huge influx of spam comments. With apologies to readers who want to click links to buy fake Louis Vuitton purses and replica watches, we decided it was time to take action.  Read More →

Don’t let living in a dorm keep you from falling asleep on your textbooks. Image courtesy of Flickr user quinnanya . Licensed under CC 2.0 BY-NC-SA . There are three basic things that college students need and spend most of their time trying to get: Food, sleep, and sex. It’s true. We’re just as predictable as Maslow said we are. Sure, grades and homework, those things are important too. But I’m talking basic needs here.... 

It took me all afternoon, but I finally figured out how to record a video and post it on YouTube. You have no idea how long it took just to figure out how to insert a title. I’m hoping that I can now get the darn thing on my own college blog. It’s my first video so it’s definitely not polished, but I trust that I will get better as I go along. If I get the hang of it, I think chatting about college will be a lot easier than... 

Ah, it’s only the second day of classes and blogging is already taking priority over classwork. Yesterday I found out about some new paraphernalia policies that UNH has put in place for student housing. One of my friends informed me that shot glasses  Read More →