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Studying & Diminishing Returns

Lots of college students are (or should be) studying for finals right now, so I thought I’d like to hear about what your thoughts are about studying and the amount of time spent on it.
I’ve always felt that the long-term absorption of information over time is infinitely more valuable than intense “study sessions.” For me, [...]

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Beat the Bookstore This Semester

Awhile back I wrote a two-part piece on how to get the most money for your textbooks when selling them and get the best price for buying them, since finals are rolling around for everyone right now, I thought I’d put a little reminder up for everyone.

How I Beat the Bookstore: Part 1 (Buying)
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End Of The Semester Crunch Time

We’re in the home stretch - just two more weeks till classes are over here at UT, then we have finals. I am probably going to be scarce around here, lots of stuff going on around here and I am getting frazzled.
Study Hacks has a post about how to deal with managing everything that needs [...]

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What Should College Really Be?

Kelly at HackCollege and Richard Millington (a fellow Brazen Careerist) recently wrote their views on what college is and what it should be. Richard says that university should be an incubator for entrepreneurship, a place for students to get practical experience, not theory - simulate the stuff that we are going to do after we [...]

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Extend the Life of Your Cheap Office Chair

I spend a lot of time at my desk, whether I am on the computer, doing homework, etc, it’s all there. When I’m there, I have an office chair from Office Depot/Max. It is pretty comfy and in decent shape for its age (3-4 years old), but the cushioning on the bottom is starting to [...]

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