I write to you just hours after completing my last written exam of the year, in the wonderful subject of business. Turns out memorizing the book was worth it, but I didn’t excel in all aspects of the exam. Continue Reading

It’s been a crazy week with exams, and I’ve gone as far as to launch this blog! Am I stupid? Anyway, here’s what’s been catching my attention around the web.

Interview: Hard Drive Organization: “If you use Spotlight or Google Search it can make it a lot easier to find documents, but don’t let that be an excuse to not create a sane folder hierarchy.”

36 Ways to Imporve Your Productivity: “In total, there are 36 tips I’m about to share which are grouped into six categories: Motivate Yourself, Prepare Yourself, Equip Yourself, Manage Your Energy, Manage Your Workflow, and Optimize Your Working Session.”

How To Severely Decrease The Chances of a Hangover: “All that booze that’s in your stomach is still going to get into your blood, help slow it down with a big plate of anything.”

How To Improve Your Computer Note-Taking Skills: “As opposed to most most typing applications, which ask you to copy words you see on the screen, Listen and Write plays back audio clips of current events and asks you to transcribe the content.” [via Lifehacker]

Picture this: You’ve been given a writing assignment. You go home, fire up Word, and stare at the blinking cursor waiting for input.

You somehow crank up a working title for your paper and think: “Hey, I should format this at 24pt.”

“Let’s make this Arial.”

And sure enough, you’ll find yourself lost in toying around with Microsoft’s wonderful Word. Here are the tools I use, which complete each other to form a pretty solid workflow.

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Familiar situation: You’ve been assigned to a group of fairly useless people, but have to finish an important group assignment. Along the way, you try to point out errors made by your ‘friends’, but fear being to harsh and thus jeopardizing the grade. Continue Reading

GTD for Students is a mysterious thing: It works very well on it’s own, but hits it’s boundaries hard in the academic world. In fact, it works so well that it’s worth keeping for students.

In this post I’ll try to show you how you can implement GTD around a term paper assignment. Continue Reading

Getting Things Done is a philosophy and methodology propagated by David Allen and his book of the same name.

Cal Newport from Study Hacks seems to be a pundit on this topic related to students already, but I felt there was some scope for expansion on how to implement GTD for students. Continue Reading

Some of us are unfortunate enough to have to cook for ourselves. In our self-maintained kitchens.

The BBC Website has an array of interesting articles on food, while this one stands out for students. While providing us with a comprehensive list of what you need in the kitchen (thus defining what you don’t need). Continue Reading

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” - Charles Darwin

Let’s take Darwin’s word for real. You’ve been in the situation: You’re running down the hallway, meet some lab work partner, you don’t have your notebook handy to jot down what he’s talking about.

You have to wait an hour for your next class, and don’t have your reading assignment with you, or anything to keep you busy.

You’re thirsty. Continue Reading

“Be the change that you want to see in the world.” -Mohandas “Mahatma” K. Ghandi

What would the best college campus look like? How could you improve your campus?

Are you in the student parlament? Most universities have a student union, mostly divided into executive, legislative and sometimes even judiciary functions. Continue Reading

Babies powernap all the time.

Seriously though, children take regular naps as they exert a lot of energy and need to recuperate. At that young age, parents and kindergarten teachers still allow them to do so, while as you get older, you’re deprived of this luxury - or let me correct: necessity. Continue Reading