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    College Hacks
    College Hacks
    College Hacks
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    College Hacks

    By Keith Bradford

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    Hacks every college student needs to know!

    Want to ace your next exam? Claim victory as a beer pong champ? Remove that gross stain from your shirt before your interview? College Hacks gives you the tricks and tips you need to get ahead in life without breaking a sweat.     Filled with hundreds of ways to simplify nearly every college situation, this guide tells you just what to do when your professor assigns you a twenty-page paper or you run out of clean dishes in your dorm room (chip bag bowl, anyone?).

    So stop making college harder than it should be! With these everyday hacks, you'll breeze through each semester as you finish assignments and tasks quicker than ever before!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster
    Release dateJul 3, 2015
    ISBN9781440590054
    Author

    Keith Bradford

    Keith Bradford is the sole owner and webmaster of Bradford Media, which publishes 1000 Life Hacks, Yup That Exists, and many other blogs/sites. Since its launch at the beginning of 2013, Bradford Media has gained a collective readership of more than 200,000—and continues to grow each and every day. He’s the author of Life Hacks, College Hacks, and Holiday Hacks. Keith lives in Aurora, Canada, and loves hockey, making music, and reading comic books.  

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      College Hacks - Keith Bradford

      Introduction

      Welcome to the college life, where the parties are wilder, the tests are harder, and you’re lucky if your teacher only assigns you a 20-page paper. Sure, you could go through the next few years in a stressed-out flock of college students, scraping by from one exam to the next, but why work so hard when you don’t have to? In this indispensible guide, you’ll find simple solutions to scenarios you’re guaranteed to face at some point in your college career. From quickly coming up with a bibliography (even though you only used one Wikipedia page) to mastering the art of beer pong, each page will teach you how to get any task done easily and more quickly and efficiently than you would have before.

      The majority of these college hacks have been pulled from various sources around the Internet as well as from user submissions to my blog 1000LifeHacks.com. I’ve broken the book down into ten different aspects of the college life, but you don’t need to read them in chronological order; you can literally flip to any page and start improving your college life right now!

      So stop making things a heck of a lot harder than they should be! With these everyday college hacks, you’ll go from Joe Schmo to college student 2.0, and breeze through each semester without even breaking a sweat!

      CHAPTER 1

      Technology

      On your first day of school, take a picture of your schedule and set it as your lock screen on your phone, so you always have it handy.

      If you’re having trouble with a math problem, plug the equation into www.WolframAlpha.com and it will solve it for you.

      Confused by a Wikipedia article? Click Simple English on the left list of languages and it’ll whisk you to a simplified version.

      Need to test a printer? Print the Google homepage. It has all the colors you need to run a proper test, and it won’t use a lot of ink.

      Make sure you have at least one professional-sounding e-mail address. Nothing will turn off your teacher or future employer faster than [email protected].

      Before you throw away a Post-it note, run it sticky side down between the keys on your keyboard to collect dust, crumbs, and other things that might have gotten trapped in there.

      When writing an e-mail, make sure the last thing you do is put in the recipient’s e-mail address. This will help you avoid sending an unfinished e-mail.

      Studying for an important test? Google site:edu [subject] exam. You’ll get a bunch of different college exams with problems similar to what may be on your test.

      10 Search Operators to Help You Search Google Like a Pro

      ASTERISK

      Searches for a missing word in phrase.

      Example: Obama was president for * years

      SITE:

      Only shows search results from a specific website.

      Example: site: 1000lifehacks.com

      TWO PERIODS

      Searches between two specific numbers.

      Example: Number 1 movies between 1980.. 1990

      VERTICAL BAR

      Searches for sites that have one/two/all terms.

      Example: blouse | shirt | chemise

      OR

      Search with multiple synonyms to get more specific results.

      Example: Literacy OR Learning

      % OF

      Instantly get the percentage of any number.

      Example: 12% of 75

      FILETYPE:

      Search for a specific type of file.

      Example: Declaration of Independence filetype:pdf

      DASHES

      Excludes a certain word from your search.

      Example: Homer -Simpson

      QUOTATION MARKS

      Searches for exact the words, quotes, or phrases you’re looking for.

      Example: I have a dream

      DEFINE:

      Gets a quick definition of a word.

      Example: define: perplexed

      When you copy something from the Internet, use Ctrl + Shift + V to paste it into a document. This will prevent the text from formatting.

      Use your own original gifs in presentations by adding gif before the word youtube in the URL. Doing this allows you to create your own gif using the video.

      You can press 1, 2, 3, etc. to jump 10%, 20%, 30% into the video you’re watching on YouTube.

      Forget slow double clicks! Press F2 on a PC and Enter/Return on a Mac to immediately rename a file.

      Need specific date ranges for a project? You can search [month][year] in Wikipedia to give you all the major world news for that month.

      If you’re on a school computer that blocks sites like YouTube, Google Chrome’s incognito mode will let you access them.

      Hold down Alt and click on any Google image to have it automatically saved to your computer.

      The iPhone app Scholly shows you thousands of potential scholarship opportunities that any student can apply for.

      www.Mathway.com solves all kinds of math homework problems

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