Just a quick post from me today. After yesterday’s post about ideas for things to do during summer, I stumbled upon another two posts which I felt I had to recommend from Zen College Life, a great blog about the student experience in college. The two posts are called  How to Use Your Summer Vacation and More Great Things to do This Summer, both posts containing more ideas for things to do during summer.

Sorry to make yet another post on the topic, but there seems to be quite a few people out there looking for ideas on things to do during their summer this year, so I’m just trying to share as many ideas as possible.

Good luck to everyone, whatever their plans for summer may be, whether working, travelling or something else entirely. Please feel free to share your plans for summer in the comments section below.

 
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There are a lot of people finding the site, or coming back to the site looking for some ideas on what to do during summer. I’m not going to write another post on the topic, because it would be very similar to the one I published last year. What I will do is link to some Continue Reading…

Ever student knows that they can go to Wikipedia for an overview of a subject, that they can go to Google for a wide variety of perspectives and popular media,  Google Scholar for academic journal references, and Google Books for searching within books, both current and obscure.  The new Google Squared even organizes output into a table of key Continue Reading…

 
I have 2 weekend, 3 weeks and 3 blue Post-Its until my first exam. Yes- 3 blue Post-Its. See:

My first exam is the first blue blue Post-It in the third row, and there are three blue Post-Its before it. The green Post-Its are the weekends I have to study (far right), and the yellow ones are days where I Continue Reading…

One of the bloggers that I follow, Jonathan of Illuminated Mind has recently released an eBook called Reclaim your Dreams which I have had the privilege of receiving a free review copy of.

I have read the eBook and must say I am very impressed. Having been a fan of Jonathans blog for some time, I enjoy his writing style Continue Reading…

When planning revision, it’s a good idea to plan things out in advance. A tip for you all is try and make a list of what you need to get done in preparation for each exam paper, that is specific actions that will help improve your grade.

When you come to planning what you are doing for the week (a Continue Reading…

It feels a shame to have to knock my last post off the top of the page given the warm reception it has received, however I need to take the chance to ask all of you as readers for some help and advice. The truth is I have probably neglected this blog a little lately, and I’m sorry. Now Continue Reading…

It may be rare for a student productivity blogger to draw inspiration from a film about card counting, but I have managed to do just that. I saw the film 21 a while back and absolutely loved it. If you want a little more background information on the film, (re)read “Do you dazzle? Do you jump off Continue Reading…