Ever find yourself sitting in a class next to this guy:
On the little scrap of a desk he has a tape recorder, the text book open where he stops to furiously take anything anyone says about anything, and a latop where he desperately tries to capture every word anyone speaks? You’ll recognize him by [...]
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Note Overkill -or- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Succeed in School!
On Reading, Part II
A few days back I wrote a bit about the process of reading academically, and how the “tricks” we may learn to read other books do not work so well in these environments. A while back I mentioned a bit of this as well, producing a “Reading” cheatsheet you can get here as well [...]
The “Real” Firefox Campus Edition
Cal’s post about his irrational anger towards the new Firefox Campus Edition at StudyHacks got me thinking. We mentioned Campus Edition ourselves briefly (I don’t believe it deserves further attention than that, really.) But I really don’t feel Cal’s anger is really irrational, from a productivity perspective this small little package is just [...]
Notely - The WebApp You Just Want to Use
Notely first caught my attention a few weeks back. Since then, I’ve been playing with it from time to time. Since it also has a Facebook application, this particular piece of student aimed software has real potential to take off. Looking around the site, with its video tour and demo account (a [...]
