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Don't Wait: Where You Will Lose If You Procrastinate

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You may remember my rants on the merits of organization and the downfalls of procrastination, but I wasn't the first person to make this recommendation. You have probably heard from one source or another that procrastination will come back and bite you. To be honest it may be true, but for the most part procrastination and college go hand in hand.

Let's face it, college is exciting. A lot is going on and you are going to be forced to push some school work to the last minute possible in order to squeeze in all the other fun activities that are available. And yes, sometimes these fun activities aren't anything special. Sometimes I would find myself lounging in my room with the notebook on the couch next to me, playing the newest videogame till 2 in the morning. Realizing only then that I should probably take a look at the notes I had accumulated.

Procrastination

A college professor, a screen writing teacher to be more specific, once explained to me, that by observing the world around us and learning from other people's stories we can accelerate our own learning curve without the necessity to fail on our primary attempts (learning through not only our experiences but the experiences of others as well). Of course this sound advice fell on deaf ears and I survived most of college by trial and error. Eventually I had a realization and subsequently success began to follow (or rather old habits that amounted to C+s and B-s and new habits that yielded A's).

In some areas however, this lack of experience and immense desire to wait till the last minute can be fatal. The following list is the three areas where you should not and cannot procrastinate if you want to have the best possible time in college.

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Scheduling: How to make your life easier

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Semesters come and go, but the comfort and leisure with which you are able to experience each and every one can make all the difference. Everyone will tell you to avoid early classes, but in the following paragraphs I will explain how to make your schedule as simple as possible and in doing so make your life much simpler as well.

The usual advice would be to avoid classes in the morning and never to schedule a class on Friday. But there is more to it than that. What I have found in my college experience is that the key to a viable college schedule is research and spacing. I have developed a few steps that go into the previously mentioned necessities and they are as follows in order: Sorting, Research, Placing, Spacing, and Committing.

Step one is sorting.

Sorting requires a certain understanding of the larger picture. This is because sorting refers to your overall course plan, and making sure you have accounted for necessary credits in the schedule you hope to create. Do not skip this step! If you neglect to sort out your major, GE, and or language requirement you may end up spending an extra semester or two in school

Step two is researching.

Researching means you must inquire in all forms in regards to the quality and ease of any and every class you have an interest in taking. Ask your friends, consult ratemyprofessor.com, ask your RA and don't forget to ask friendly neighbors in class (chances are they have the same major as you and the older ones will be well versed in all the teachers in your department). Research how many professors teach the class, when and where they are scheduled and keep track so that you don't have an overlap in your ideal schedule. If you do find an overlap you should have backup classes sorted, researched and ready to fill the slot.

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Finding the Best Prices on College Textbooks

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Textbook prices continue to skyrocket; 14 percent in the past year alone. Today's average college student is forced to spend more than $1,000 per year on textbooks. Our friends at CampusGrotto used to run a great annual list of the best places to find cheap textbooks. Since they have stopped running this list we figured we would pick up where they left off.

We've run extensive tests of five of the biggest textbook price comparison sites, to see which ones provided the cheapest and most straightforward way of purchasing textbooks. We inputted some of the most common (and expensive) college textbooks out there to evaluate these popular comparison engines: Managerial Accounting (0073379611), Prebles' Artforms (013514132X), Biology with Mastering Biology (0321543254), The Developing Person Through the Life Span (071676072X), and Essentials of Sociology (0205578705).

Read on for the complete results...

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Tips for a Clean Dorm Life

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It is hard to stay clean and tidy in the dorms, even for the most organized of people. For a number of reasons, you just won’t have the same energy and drive to put things away or keep things in their respective places. I attribute the aforementioned to a number of factors that are not present in high school life.

Number 1 is the roommate. This beastly creature can be your best friend or your worst enemy. He or she can share in your aspirations of a clean room or destroy any hopes you have of ever achieving such. Imagine your new dorm room is a person--except this person now has two personalities. No matter how well the two mesh, there is bound to be some clash and discomfort.

In my opinion the number 2 reason is the shock of new-found independence. The world just got a whole lot bigger. That is right. Mommy and Daddy are gone, everything needs to get done and you need to do it. This increased workload often forces the best of us to push our organizational skills out the window and spend that precious time recuperating from the night before (whether it was studying for a midterm or winning the local beer pong tournament).

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Last Chance to WIN a Fellowes Shredder!

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If you haven't entered the contest already, share a tip for staying safe on campus with us either as a comment on this post or on our Facebook page. You could win a Fellowes shredder for your dorm!

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