Category: Classes
An Open Letter to People on Laptops in Class
Look, I know that you intended to bring your laptop into class to take notes. Or at least that’s what you tell everyone. But you and I both know that the minute the professor starts talking about the implications of post-colonial ideologies on Joesph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and the responses by modern writers to his potentially racist novel, you’re going straight to Facebook, then spending the rest of class on reddit or tumblr.
How to Talk to Your Professors (And Get Them to Remember Your Name)
Let’s face it, professors are intimidating as hell. They’re typically highly credentialed, articulate, and in charge of your grade. Talking to them might be helpful, both for your grades and your future, but it’s difficult to know where to start. This advice is not meant to encourage you to pretend to like professors for letters [...]
Beat the Registration Block: Strategies to Get that Add Code
Whether you’re a freshman or a graduating senior, you should expect to see this at some point in your college career. With costs going up and faculty and class sizes going down, students at many universities across the country are facing the repercussions, one of them being a dire shortage of classes across all major [...]
50 Things I Wish I Knew As A College Freshman
Much of your education will happen outside the classroom -
Grades are great, but they aren’t everything. Get out, meet people, try new things, and don’t be afraid to fail.
5 Classes Every College Student Should Take Before They Graduate
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook [...]
Why Every Past, Present, and Future College Student Should Donate $20 to Wikipedia
Do it for the 256 papers Wikipedia helped, will help, or is helping you write for your college classes. Do it for the hassle-free information Wikipedia provides on a daily basis. Do it for the 1.6 points on your GPA that wouldn’t be there if Wikipedia never existed.
