Weekly Round Up – Androids, adorable monsters and Zombie Ants!
This week, when mid-semester exams and paper due dates loom, let’s waste some time with a song, a comic and a bit o’ science!
iPad Apps for College Students?!
Google this post title and you get a LOT of crap. I finally realized that I had to be more specific to avoid lists full of games and Wikipedia apps, and started searching for “best note taking apps ipad.” The results were varied, and deciding on a single app didn’t seem possible. An inherent flaw [...]
3 Easy Steps to Staying Focused While Studying on the Computer
In this lovely modern age a lot of my studying is done online. I have to use Blackboard for several of my courses, watch missed lectures on a professor’s website and, of course, use Wikipedia to do “research” for papers. Recently I noticed that when I sit down at the computer to do those things [...]
Scheduling for Sanity
If you’re keeping up, we spent time on Monday putting our base schedule together. This next step is something you should probably do weekly. For the rest of this week you’re going to plan 1-3 hours of studying per evening. On your “weekend” days you can schedule up to 6 hours of studying, but don’t [...]
The First 3 Steps to Cure a Mid-Semester Slump
The slump is burnout. It’s when your fun-self is having a fantastic tantrum due to your courseload/workload avalanche. Meanwhile, your responsible half is lecturing you for fantasizing about running away, increasing the tantrum. You spin your wheels on useless stuff, you’re not having fun and you’re crazy tired. Sound unproductive? Oh yeah. You need to [...]
Google Calendar is my BFF
I am suspicious that Google is the precursor for Skynet. Despite this, I love Google Calendar like I love my real-life BFF. I’ve tried everything from the Hipster PDA, single sheet calendars and mini-planners. None is so simple and flexible as Google Calendar. It fits in my pocket, courtesy of Blackberry syncing. It lets me [...]
Mid-Semester Slump
I made it through mid-terms only slightly brain-damaged and reveled in a week with no exams looming ahead of me. Then I survived the second lab practical with confidence, using the At Home Practical Mayhem technique (TM totally pending). Now it’s nearly midnight on Tuesday, and I have an OCHEM exam on Monday. I also [...]
Why You Shouldn’t Skip Class
Last Friday I slept through my morning alarm. This hasn’t happened in a very long time, but as a result I missed my early morning class. I wasn’t too concerned about it, because the professor happens to record his lectures on a tablet PC, so you see what everyone in lecture does and hear it [...]
Three Fall Semester Tips
It’s the first day back on campus, or for some of you your first day of college. Welcome to school everyone. Talk to strangers. Introduce yourself to whomever you meet and ask them questions. Try not to talk for more than 30 seconds at a time and ask new people about themselves. This is the [...]
Update: Chegg Rental Textbooks
Well, Chegg shipped quickly and I got my books a few days earlier than expected. They. came in 3 boxes, 2 from Chegg directly and one from Amazon – I assume they ran out of that one, so I have on fancy brand new rental book They’re all in good condition, with only one looking [...]
