Category: Self-Study
21st Century 21-Year Old or: How I Learned to Embrace $7.75 Beers
“I find I’m so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it’s the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain.” – Red, “The Shawshank Redemption” (The following diary takes creative license in formulating [...]
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Why Flashcards Burn Facts Into Your Brain [Infographic]
This infographic from Course Hero breaks down how flashcards actually help you study. It shows how active recall and recognition based recall differ, it highlights the different situations in which studying with flashcards is effective, and goes into depth on the psychology of using flash cards.
Check out the infographic and head on over to Course Hero if you’re looking for some awesome flashcard resources.
Rainy Mood + Classical Music = Ultra Productive Studying
This is something that someone showed me when I was a sophomore in college, and it increased the productivity of my studying remarkably. Check out the website Rainy Mood. Let it play in the background while you are studying. Then, once you have Rainy Mood going, add another layer of studying awesomeness by putting on [...]
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.
Word Dynamo Beta
Word Dynamo Beta is a really cool new offering from Dictionary.com and its associated sites. Word Dynamo provides students with many of the cool features that flashcard websites like Quizlet provide, except Word Dynamo offers CONSISTENT QUALITY. Word Dynamo lets you study using flashcards, games, and other experimental techniques. It has a really fun interface, [...]
Academic Earth – Open Source College
The modern college degree is significantly less valuable than it used to be. This is unfortunate but true. Why, then, do people continue to spend tens, even hundreds, of thousands of dollars on an education that is a stepping stone to either spending more money on grad school or a career chain with a seemingly [...]
