Is it often that you find yourself needing quick answers in the middle of doing your work, and an email to your professor will not create a quick enough response? Then try this…… say your in fundamentals of math and no matter how many times you look at your book, notes, or the problem you can not recall how to solve logarithmic equations. A very helpful solution would be to utilize the lecture postings on YouTube. Just simply type in logarithmic equations and choose a video with a professor that best fits your learning style. We guarantee that more times then not, your memory will begin to become refreshed. It’s a great learning tool when you’re in a bind. Just be aware that these are postings, and may not be entirely accurate. However, seeing as if most lecture postings are by professors, we have to assume that they know their stuff! Check out this video for example; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=620BCTnRo5s
This weekend is practically here!!! But what happens when Monday morning rolls around?
“The alarm sounds and the pain and despair immediately overcome your body like a flu kicking into motion. Your body aches, your heart races and your mind wanders and calculates the cause and effect of every plausible and valid reason not to leave the protection of your comforter.”
Does this experience sound familiar? If so, you are probably suffering from Monday morning Blues, and the key lies in organizing your work.
Try this website for tips…… It WILL help!
http://www.articlealley.com/article_1159712_36.html
Hello everyone!
The Academic Services Center at Franklin Pierce has developed a facebook page. We will be posting things to the News Feed like dates of midterms exams, innovative social media sites for students, reminders, occasional study or organizing tips…etc. SO, please click on the following link and become a Fan. I don’t think you will regret it. Your input and ideas are always welcome!! After all this is supposed to be designed for you.
Take a look at the Hopes and Concerns page to see what the Franklin Pierce University students in Rindge are hoping for this academic year, and what their concerns are.
First year students, take a look and see how much you have in common with other newbies to the academic scene. Upperclassmen and those that have graduated from college, what advice to you have for our new recruits? Click on the comment tool and share your experience and advice.
Due to popular demand, the College at Rindge is adding another section of College Writing II (IC 106) for Fall ‘09. It will meet MWF at 8 am. If you need the course, get an add/drop form and sign up. Steve Thurber will be the instructor.
There’s an add-on called Hyperwords for the Firefox browser that I’ve been using for number conversions (square feet to acres, US dollar to other currencies), language translation, and searches, but I found a handy new use for it yesterday that I thought would be helpful to incoming students–comparison shopping for textbooks.
Hyperwords allows you to right-click on a word or phrase and search multiple online stores for the item. That means that you can go to a page such as a college bookstore list for courses you’re taking in September, select and right-click the title of one of the texts, and then search one or many vendors for your books. (I ended up using a combination of Amazon and AbeBooks for two courses I’m taking in the fall.) See the video below for a demonstration of Hyperwords.
Photo courtesy of Whitman College via the Chronicle of Higher Education
I love this. Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, sends each of its incoming first-year students a box of the local delicacy, Walla Walla sweet onions. Franklin Pierce should do something like that, but I don’t know what our local delicacy is, except one of those really big ice cream cones from Kimball’s in Jaffrey (in my humble opinion their coffee Heath Bar crunch rivals Ben and Jerry’s).
It’s that time of year. Higher-ed administrators are holding orientations, scrubbing down dorms, and—at a liberal-arts institution in Washington State, anyhow—sending each incoming freshman a box of sweet onions.
Officials at Whitman College, in Walla Walla, Wash., say they’re reasonably sure that theirs is the only American college that mails onions to its first-year students.
Students, this is a good time of year to remind kindly grandparents and other relatives that you will be fulfilling their hopes (or giving the lie to their direst predictions) by going away to college in just six short weeks. Ask relatives for advice for about living on your own, and if they have experience with higher education, ask them if they have suggestions for success in college.
Okay, all that is important, but here comes the slightly sneaky part: Mention your concerns about the cost of textbooks. (In fact, you should be a little concerned. You can expect to spend hundreds of dollars on books and materials for courses.) You may find that you have a relative or two that would like to help you out with such a worthwhile expenditure.
Even if you don’t get help (or don’t need or want assistance) this semester, keep it mind when a holiday or birthday comes around. Maybe some Amazon gift cards so you can order used books online?
I just read a New York Times article about a company called Chegg that rents college textbooks. What a good idea!
Alan Bradford, a senior at Arizona State University, read about Chegg in a campus newspaper in 2008 and calculated that his bill for books that semester would have been $334 with Chegg, far less than the $657 he paid. Since then, he has ordered about a dozen textbooks from Chegg.
“Nobody likes paying for textbooks,” he said.
CHEGG is shorthand for “chicken and egg,” a reference to what Mr. Rashid called students’ quandary after graduation: they need experience to get a job, but can’t get experience without having a job.
As a test case, I looked up the price for the text that is being used for Microcomputer Applications this summer. Microsoft System 2003 sells for $100 new, and a used copy of the book costs $81 at the college bookstore. It is available for $25 on Half.com or Amazon, but costs only $9.99 to rent. I’m not sure what shipping costs. If anyone tries Chegg, write a comment below to tell us what it was like and whether you are happy with the service.
