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New Year’s fuss and Jingle Bells tunes urge us to have a fresh start to the brand-new year—by setting ambitious goals, taking care of our body and soul, learning new skills, and so on. As a college student, you are especially thrilled about what you can achieve this year. But the truth is we rarely succeed in these ventures if our environment—physical, digital, and mental—is cluttered and messy. If our lives are full of unwanted things that we don’t dare to get rid of, in the end, we let the clutter drag us down. This is not a way to succeed in college and boost your learning achievements!

Read more > “Decluttering Tips for College Students”

How can we possibly make our studying routine less cluttered with digital noise and focus on studying? Is it possible to minimize all the distractions? Zenware apps are definitely one of the solutions. These apps help you concentrate on the one task you are supposed to do by eliminating interface clutter, notifications, and often noises. While these apps usually cost quite a bit, we also offer you a combination of free apps for focusing on studying that can substitute any fancy Zenware. 

Read more > “Zenware: The Best Apps for Focusing on Studying”

We are all in need of accurate book summaries once in a while, especially when studying at college or hopping on a busy work schedule. There are so many reading lists and recommendations like “100 books everybody should read,” “10 Best Sci-Fi Books,” or more college-specific “12 Books Every Law Student Should Read.” But how can one possibly devour and digest all this information, especially when it’s not just for fun but also relevant to your college studies and career? The answer is: find book summaries for college students.

Read more > “6 Ways to Find Book Summaries for College Students”

Best note-taking methods, apps, and styles have been discussed a million times. But not that many articles answer the most obvious concern: what exactly should we take notes of? Realizing your real aims is by far the main recipe for legible and useful notes. So instead of downloading another note-taking app, let’s learn that one thing you need to know about the best notes of your life.

Read more > “The One Thing You Need to Know About Note-Taking Apps and Methods”

Are you as thrilled before the start of the new academic year as I am? Especially for freshmen, summer is the best period to get ready for that first day at college. Your head might ache already from the amount of stuff you need to take care of: figure out your schedule, buy textbooks, set up a university account, connect to your future classmates… 

Read more > “College Freshman Checklist: 12 Things to Do This Summer”

Our summers used to be all about grasping opportunities and gaining relevant experiences in internships, part-time jobs, or summer schools. But then the coronavirus crisis came. Many secured internships were reworked, companies have frozen their hiring plans, and summer schools were canceled—all this brought our summer plans to ruin. With the current splash of unemployment, it is even harder for recent grads to land an internship or your first full-time job. 

Read more > “Finding Virtual Internships and Online Summer Schools in 2021”

There are a bunch of note-taking and memorization methods out there: a two-column Cornell method, flashcards, or mind maps. These techniques are proven to be beneficial for enhancing one’s level of material memorization and recall. Indeed, it’s better to take notes and work through the textbook’s content instead of just reading!

Read more > “QUESTION: a Revolutionary Method for Learning from Textbooks”

The start of the new year is the best time to set new goals and embark on your ambitious projects. Your mindset is open for new beginnings, and you are full of strength and enthusiasm… or not? Is it only in the heads of marketing professionals? We bet these few days and weeks of 2020 were like any other day, week, or month, which are not devoid of procrastination, disappointments, and bad habits.

Read more > “How to Form Good Habits and Stick to Them: A Scientific Approach”

You remember that moment when you were taking notes during the lecture and you suddenly pierced the paper with your pen? This kind of experience does not help with the already daunting task of writing a lot of stuff for a long time! During your college years, it is important that you do your research to find out about the best means for taking notes which will simplify your student life. Previously, we wrote about the best pen options for you, dear students, so now it is the time to reveal our list of best notebooks! This should help you avoid disappointing writing experiences in the future!

Read more > “4 Best Notebooks for College Students”

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A good pen simplifies your studying routine so much! It can improve the way you take notes, the way you remember things and as a result, it can even boost your grades. At the times when a lot of students type their notes on tablets or laptops, there are still a lot of students who prefer to follow their professor in a more traditional way: by taking handwritten notes. Actually, it has been proven that jotting down your notes on a piece of paper improves your retention ability, sharpens your memory and makes it easier to recall things at a later stage.

Read more > “5 Best Pens For College Notes”

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