School is hard. Between papers to write, tests to study for, projects to finish, and trying to actually have a social life, there’s a lot for students to do. There’s also a lot of software out there that promises to make things easier – unfortunately, a lot of it can break a student budget. Fear [...]

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Facebook has become a major distraction for university students around the world. There is just so much happening at any one time that all thoughts of assignments and study get thrown out the window. This has happened to me on many occasions. But there are some applications you can use to help increase your productivity, [...]

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This is another part of The Student Productivity Week. For the full list of articles see the overview, or at Scholastici.us. Textbooks. No matter what way you look at them, they are a pain. They are heavy, expensive, and hard to understand. Everyday I see people struggling around their universities piled under a load of [...]

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Please thank Cal Newport for this guest post. I will be writing up a post at his blog, Study Hacks, very soon. Cal is also a successful author, with two books entitled: How to Become a Straight A Student, and How to Win at College. A Surprising Discovery To research my second book I devised [...]

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For the past few weeks Gideon Addington and I have been working hard to produce a week of the best posts about Student Productivity. Everything from textbooks, to resources, and online applications will be covered in detail with one post a day alternating on our blogs. Stay tuned for a lot of great tips in [...]

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GPA or Grade Point Average, is the one deciding factor that compares the quality of your work with your classmates and ranks you accordingly. The higher your GPA the better. But sometimes it is much harder to increase this simple number than it first seems. Thankfully, there are some simple steps you can take to [...]

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When you leave home for the first time, and start going to university, there is one thing which you can never be prepared for – the number of colds and illnesses you will get in your first year. It will seem that every week you willl have another kind of flu. You will catch anything [...]

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Cal Newport has posted a very insightful post recently titled Productivity is Overrated. While many people will argue against this idea, Cal does have some interesting arguments: Being productive does not make you accomplished. It does, however, make being accomplished less stressful. This leads to the idea that accomplishing your goals is not about productivity [...]

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