What's your question? Photo by flickr user Margaret Anne Clarke
It's been a busy week for the HackCollege crew. We all met up on Tuesday in New York City for the live taping of the Diggnation. It was the first time [...]
What's your question? Photo by flickr user Margaret Anne Clarke
It's been a busy week for the HackCollege crew. We all met up on Tuesday in New York City for the live taping of the Diggnation. It was the first time [...]
It seems these days that everyone’s jumping with both feet onto the Twitter bandwagon – and that includes colleges. Employees, departments, school teams, and even college presidents are getting onto Twitter, and engaging with students and the public in cool new ways.
One [...]
Got a question? Head on over to Discuss Campus and ask it! Photo by flickr user Marco Bellucci
Just a week after its launch, Discuss Campus is alive and very healthy. There are a bunch of great questions being [...]
Noooooooooo. Photo from flickr user alicegop
Today's guest post comes from Jake Holmes, a senior at the University of Michigan where he's studying French. If you would like to write a guest post, shoot an email to dear@hackcollege.com.
Having a car [...]
If you haven't already, check on flights home for Christmas break. No matter how much you hate your family, your college will probably close the dorm on you if you don't go home.
You might already be too late for a good deal, but flights are [...]
It happens to me almost every morning: I wake up, say a NSFW version of “oh gosh golly!” because I have 4 minutes to get to class, and start getting ready. And, ready for this? I make it to class. Almost on [...]
This could be you. Image via Maximum PCLast week Microsoft started Microsoft Student Rally which is a competition among students around. The goal? It's to see who can get a tweet, with the hash tag of #Windows7 and why the new' [...]
This happens a lot. Wine is the only type of alcohol that comes in a container that requires its own special tool to open. Other alcohols don't even have basic child-proofing. So, when you're smashed out of your mind and caught without a corkscrew, it [...]
We launched a new site this week, Discuss Campus. There was a huge flood to the site and there is already a healthy community over there with over 200 questions asked in the first 2 days. Awesome. There were quite a few questions that [...]
If you’re already a Twitter user, you probably get why Lists are so cool: they’re an awesome way to follow whole groups of interesting people, in one place, without letting them get all cluttered among everything else you follow.
If you’re [...]
Photo used without my brother's permission. If he complains about rights to his photo, I will beat him up.
Hello!
Secret: I have a younger brother and he goes to Notre Dame. My family is making a pilgrimage to South Bend this weekend [...]
We at HackCollege like to think our readers are a few standard deviations above the mean when it comes to tech savviness. I came across this interesting infographic from BillShrink that was dugg over 1000 times and was featured on Lifehacker. It's a comparison [...]
Last week The Chronicle of Higher Education wrote a post in their blog, Wired Campus, about colleges doing away with school specific email addresses. One of the main reasons they cite for the inclination to delete the mail accounts is that all of [...]
My desk space is... kind of cluttered and uneventful.
Well, I figured it's about time I put my own desk up here. The world wants to know.
My desk may be quite the let-down for anyone expecting some crazy, avant-garde ultraproductive setup. It's' [...]
We know you think potato chips are a well-rounded meal, but to lots of other people, they're just a snack. That means we usually munch them while doing something else -- sometimes, at the computer. And though they're bad for your diet, [...]
As of this morning, Discuss Campus is officially online! Given its crowd-sourced nature, it needs participation to be useful. And that's where you come in.
Head on over and create an account. If you know the answers to some of the [...]
Oh dear. Photo via Leadership by DanThe worst thing that can happen to your computer is frying the hard drive. I had this misfortune two summers ago. I'm grateful that it was the summer though and not before finals. All of your' [...]
It's with much excitement that we're announcing a new member of the HackCollege family. Tomorrow morning, a new site we're calling Discuss Campus will be launching.
Discuss Campus will the the go-to place for questions about college. Anything from "What" [...]
A week or two after its first big beta release of invites, people are still chomping at the bit for invites. (I don't have any, sorry!) While everyone is waiting to jump on board, the real question remains:' [...]
It's midterm season.
As I sit down to write this post, I just finished an Anthropology test. I nailed it. Like, crushed it. No, that doesn’t even do it justice. I took it out behind the classroom, beat to a pulp, revived it [...]
Where's the college Wikipedia police? Photo by flickr user Steve Punter
Whilst browsing my own school's Wikipedia article, I noticed something interesting. During the section discussing LMU's limited Greek system, I found these sentences:
There are non-registered and un-recognized groups [...]
Most people love snow days. And for those that don't, this article from Lifehacker may help you forget you're even swallowed up in your apartment or dorm. There are some tips that'll help you stay connected with your work and being adept at how your' [...]
Thanks everyone for participating in Blackboard Week and leaving your comments about our ideas. It was a big success in our book.
Traffic was way up throughout the week and we got some pretty good feedback from our ideas. Blackboard likes [...]
Fall Memory by flickr user Indy Kethdy
StudentBloggers and HackCollege have teamed up to bring you the best in student blogging each week. Here are some featured posts from the last seven days.
Life is all about competition and sometimes we shy [...]
Calling all students at LMU, UCLA, USC and Pepperdine! If you're at all interested in Twitter or the "real-time Web," the 140conf just informed us that they are giving 500 passes to students.
' [...]Sorry for the cheesy title. I couldn't resist.
Today's Featured Desk Space submission comes from Mojaam, a current information systems student at UMBC in Baltimore.
Mojaam, along with just about every other HackCollege reader it seems, has the dual monitor' [...]
This post is part of our ongoing Blackboard Week.
We're just asking for a drop of improvement. Awesome photo by flickr user laszlo-photoWhat we've talked about in the other posts of Blackboard Week have not been the [...]
So you're late for class and you forgot to staple your paper. What do you do? You use this technique.
' [...]This post is part of our ongoing Blackboard Week.
Can't we all just play nice? Image from flickr user dkaz
My mother always told me to play nicely with others on the playground. My first internship out of' [...]
This post is part of our ongoing Blackboard Week.
There's plenty of hype about "cloud" software these days. Many engineers argue back and forth about the benefits of developing software in the Cloud. In many ways, cloud software is nothing new. [...]
Toward the end of the summer, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon ran a contest to find their next intern. The show received thousands of submissions and they whittled everything down to one person. Competition was fierce. Hell, I even entered.
The student that would [...]
This post is part of our ongoing Blackboard Week.
For our first post in our Blackboard Week, we will be giving a state of the union. This post will go over how Blackboard came to be what it is, some of [...]
I bet all these students are cool with Dr. Casey. Image via Depauw.edu
I almost want to transfer after reading this article from The New York Times' Blog The Choice. DePauw University's President, Brian Casey, is extremely involved with the students [...]
Of all of those companies offering scholarships out there via the Web, I feel that the aptly-named College Scholarships does it best. They are the most in touch. They are also not trying to hawk credit cards to students [...]
This comic comes from our good friends Tony and Wes at Amazing Superpowers.
Questioning the value of your degree? Fun fact: 12 percent of mail carriers have college degrees. They could've gotten that job without one. You can read' [...]
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Good news for college students. A law that was passed under the Bush administration became effective on Friday. It was coined "Michelle's Law", for a student who kept a full workload while battling colon cancer. It protects students who've left school for a serious medical' [...]
Your school probably charges you every time you get a new student ID. That should set a goal for you: Get that one student ID to last you all four years. The magnetic strip is the one thing that will face unavoidable wear-and-tear -- but [...]
Gary's new book in the flesh. Oh, and my arm.
Web maven and wine connoisseur Gary Vaynerchuk has got a new book out, and it's not about wine. Gary's latest book provides an overview of building a personal brand and [...]
Sure you might not be barbequing [...]
Image: Flickr User urbanwoodswalkerBaggage
This could mean [...]
Hello! I shot this little video going over how I [...]
Blog the Olympics. Courtesy of Microsoft.
Secret: [...]
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We're pretty' [...]
Contrary to their claims, many bibliography services out there are just not that easy to use. You have to sign up for an account or install some funky Firefox plugin. We here at HackCollege set out to change the way people think build bibliographies [...]
Chris Lesinski, Kelly Sutton, David Pierce, Mike Bertolino, HackCollege, Matt DiGirolamo
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