Posts Tagged ‘university’

How To Ace Graduate School Entrance Exams

Every student's nightmare: Another life altering standardized test. To make matters worse, it's increasingly likely college seniors won't be able to find a job after graduation. You might have heard your friends talking about graduate school. Is everyone doing it? You don't need to look far to see: Graduate and professional school enrollment is on the rise across America. The recently unemployed, college seniors, and those looking for a… Continue reading

November 17 2008 | By Brandon | Tagged: advice-for-students, career, college, education, job, planning, student, university | 12 comments»

Deirdre McCloskey on Writing

One of the best books for writers in the social sciences is Deirdre McCloskey's Economical Writing, a very short, very small book that offers a number of important principles for writing. McCloskey is an economist by training, but she has written across a wide variety of fields. Economical Writing is a must-have and a must-read for any serious writer. Here are five of her points from… Continue reading

October 10 2008 | By Art | Tagged: college, efficiency, persuasion, social-science, student, university, writing | 19 comments»

Advice for Students: Start Planning Now for Life After College

At the end of every school year, the media is stuffed with advice for soon-to-be graduates looking forward with excitement -- and not a little fear – to setting out on their careers. I’ve althinways felt that this was just a little bit too late – by the time June rolls around, you’re competing with literally millions of recent grads, all frantic to find some kind of handhold in this… Continue reading

September 24 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: advice-for-students, career, college, education, job, planning, student, university | 13 comments»

Why Your Classes are Boring

Does your textbook make your eyes glaze over? Is the desire for a degree or diploma the only thing keeping you focused on your classes? I’ll admit the lecture format most schools use to teach material isn’t the best way to hold your attention. But I think there is a more important factor when deciding if classes keep you interested: Are you actually using the information you’re… Continue reading

December 4 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: boring, class, college, learning, Lifehack, Productivity, school, study, university | 21 comments»

Study Tip: Why Aiming for A is Better Than A+

Is it better to get an A or an A+? Most people instinctively react with an A+. As I’d like to show in this article, that isn’t always the case. Being perfect can cost far more than good enough. Also, as I’d like to demonstrate, the habits that might get you an A+ might also leave you with a B or C if you fail… Continue reading

November 20 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: 80/20, learning, Lifehack, pareto, Productivity, students, study, university | 14 comments»

Advice for Students: How to Read Like a Scholar

Gideon at Scholastici.us had some advice for students recently, saying that when it comes to scholarly reading, there really is no substitute for hard work, for actually sitting down and reading.Most the time in school what you need to do is very simple: Sit down with the book, a pen and paper, and perhaps a computer… And from that point, you read. That’s it. You go through and read… Continue reading

September 21 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: academic, college, education, reading, student, studying, university | 25 comments»

Advice for Students: Taking Notes that Work

Note-taking is one of those skills that rarely gets taught. Teachers and professors assume either that taking good notes comes naturally or that someone else must have already taught students how to take notes. Then we sit around and complain that our students don't know how to take notes. I figure it's about time to do something about that. Whether you're a high school junior… Continue reading

September 7 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: college, notes, notetaking, school, students, studying, university | 84 comments»

Advice for Students: 11+ Ways to Make this Your Best Semester Yet

Right about now, America's students are heading back to school for the Fall semester. Last week, I gave some very specific advice about using a wiki to store and organize notes, but keeping good notes is just part of being a successful student. Over the weekend, I decided to offer up some more general, all-purpose advice for students. Whether you're just starting college or returning, the… Continue reading

August 27 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: advice, college, collegelife, howto, moleskine, organization, Productivity, student, tip, university | 49 comments»

Go to MIT for free

One Man's Blog points out that MIT has joined the online learning bandwagon and is attempting to offer the complete course material for every class online for free. The program will be called "MIT Open Courseware." Susan Hockfield, MIT president, describes the program: OpenCourseWare expresses in an immediate and far-reaching way MIT’s goal of advancing education around the world. Through MIT OCW, educators and students everywhere can benefit from… Continue reading

January 26 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: free, learning, online, university | 7 comments»

Free University Podcast Collection

Dan Colman at Open Culture has sent us his compilation on podcasts. One of the collections that I really like is the University Podcasts. Free lectures, academic presentations, full courses are available for general public. Go ahead and subscribe some great ones, sync it to your iPod, and learn more knowledge wherever you go. Specifically, the podcast learning program at Stanford University is pretty extensive:

Stanford University - General

January 15 2007 | By Leon | Tagged: course, Podcast, studying, university | no comments»

Roundup: 11 Important Student Tips and Advices

On top of today's interview with Michael Leddy - I want to round up number of great student tips and advices that Michael has given throughout the year. These articles get you around if you are a student - these advices are extremely valuable for your school years. Specifically, these articles could help you answer all these questions: How to start sucessfully as a freshman? Where to study?… Continue reading

December 8 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: school, student, studying, university | 5 comments»