There has been something of a debate going on around the term multitasking recently. Many contest that dividing attention among a number of tasks simply means that each task is receiving less attention. Others argue that in this modern world of interrelated...
College life comes with a full schedule and all too often an empty bank account. As students gear up for each semester, finding funds to pay for tuition and textbooks isn’t easy. The average full-time student spends as much $900* annually on textbooks...
A mother’s job is never done, that is often how the saying goes. Moms these days often lead stressful lives that include work, children, house work and possibly even college. According to a poll by thebump.com and Forbes Woman, 92% of working women...
The digitization of collections of print, sound, images, and other media has been a growing trend in recent years. This process allows greater access for scholars and researchers who can’t afford the time or expense to travel to a distant archive to...
Through my high school and college years, if there is anything students often reminisced about it was nap time. Even in the workplace there is still always a hope that maybe someday, someone out there will hear our cries of needing nap time. The benefits...
We’ve all been there; procrastination always gets the best of us. Sometimes you’re down to the wire and still can’t manage to get off Facebook or stop taking hour long naps. Why do we do this to ourselves?! Luckily there are resources available...
We’ve already explained some new skills college students should take up before writing that painstaking college composition paper. Some college students still lack proper writing skills even after high school, and what about those who graduated years...
As the school year presses on the hardest part can sometimes be trying to focus on studying. The more you try and concentrate the more distractions you find for yourself. For example, you’re trying to write a five paragraph essay for your English Composition...
Within moments of watching the unveiling of the iPad 2, the twittersphere was buzzing the hashtag #ipad2. As Steve Jobs put it, 2011 is the year of the iPad 2. Before jumping into the excitement of all that is this next generation iPad, let me first begin...
As if college students don’t have enough of a bad rap after research showed they don’t know to err…research, now they don’t know how to write either! That might be stretching it, but the Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing has been...