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On the Importance of Self Education, Part II: The News and You

In the last part of this series I talked primarily about the importance and value of the education you can only give yourself - expanding your intellect and abilities beyond the classroom. It’s fairly abstract, so the rest of this series will be about how you educate yourself.
Our post yesterday concerned RSS feeds, and why [...]

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13 Ways to Get Your News - RSS and You

Before I proceed onward to my post on self-education, I thought it best to discuss the technology involved in one of those methods.
Many readers of this blog will, no doubt, be very familiar with RSS feeds and the like. But some probably are not, and this is largely for you (though I learned a lot [...]

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Meta-Notes: Notes About Your Notes = Success on Exams and Papers

Last week, in my “Weeks of Hell” post I mentioned meta-notes. This is my own term, I’m sure someone out there has a better one, but “meta” means above or beyond and so it works here. Essentially, meta-notes are much like the study sheets I discussed before as it is a consolidation of [...]

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