I am one of UP’s centennial freshmen, a n00b to College life. Entering in such a very liberal University wasn’t easy. As expected, there was “culture shock”. But believe me, it was fun.
It was only in college when I discovered my so-called Life Lines. These life lines saved me from boredom, weird assignments and insanity. Here’s a few of them:
- Got something to search? Google is your friend. It’s your portal to virtually unlimited resources. May it be an assignment, jokes, games, parodies and list goes on and on.
- But if you need extensive information on something, Wikipedia is always up to help you. In case that you’d need more, see the external links and notes below — links to their sources which in most of the time contains more extensive info are systematically listed. Another advantage of those links are they’re written in APA/MLA style. This means there’s no need to rewrite them for your bibliography.
- What if you were given by your Panitikan ng Pilipinas class a job to research on Biag ni Lam-ang? WikiPilipinas.org offers sufficient Philippine-centric articles which are normally not easy to find in the Web.
- It’s late midnight and you’re uber-bored writing your term paper. A good place to reenergize yourself is to watch CollegeHumor videos. They got very good originals that college students can relate to. They also have an array of high-quality third-party content. They also got a blog where they post funny graphs. [Someone in Plurk told me that CollegeHumor.com paid Paris Hilton to make an Obama/McCain campaign spoof. Cool.]
- For group works that requires collaboration on a paper or a spreadsheet, Google Docs is helpful. Given a permission by the document owner, anyone from the group can make changes instantaneously visible to anyone. This makes collaboration an easy task — easier than giving each one a copy of the file for editing and compiling all changes in a single document. Another big advantage of this one is when a hardware (an external disk or removable drive) fails, you can always download it from anywhere in the world given that you have an active Internet connection.
- Your teacher asked you to read a very thick novel. Shall we say the novel “Love in Time of Cholera”. SparkNotes offers comprehensive summaries of some famous pieces of Literature, may it be a poem, novel, etc. They also offer condensed online textbooks on science subjects and U.S. history.
- Studying Law? As in the Laws in the Philippines? ChanRobles law firm has an online repository of Philippine Laws, the Philippine Constitution, Republic Acts among others.
- As you may have noticed above, they’re life lines on the Internet. Now, let’s UnPLUG ourselves from our PCs/Macs. Join a special-interest organization. I’ve tried this and it’s actually a good outlet for people who love to talk about their interests but unfortunately have friends who aren’t interested with it. You learn new things (in my case, Linux stuff) while plowing new friends. You get a chance to talk and talk about geeky stuff without boring people.
- Give yourself a break. Bond with nature. I bet most schools have an open-field or park. Give yourself a chance to roll on the grass, play frisbee with friends or have a walk with your pet. It may be costly but if you’re adventurous enough, have a discovery dive and discover what the open seas offer.
For the mean time, I’d stop here. I have more in mind, but let me reserve it for another post. Nyahahaha.
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[...] Students’ Life Lines … saved me from boredom, weird assignments and insanity. Here’s a few of them: Got something to search? Google is your friend. It’s your portal to virtually unlimited resources. May it be an assignment, jokes, games, parodies and list goes on and on. But if you need extensive information on something … [...]
[...] Students’ Life Lines … that CollegeHumor.com paid Paris Hilton to make an Obama/McCain campaign spoof. Cool.] For group works that requires collaboration on a paper or a spreadsheet, Google Docs is helpful. Given a permission by the document owner, anyone from the group can make changes instantaneously visible to anyone … [...]
[...] Students’ Life Lines … saved me from boredom, weird assignments and insanity. Here’s a few of them: Got something to search? Google is your friend. It’s your portal to virtually unlimited resources. May it be an assignment, jokes, games, parodies and list goes on and on. But if you need extensive information on something … [...]
Nung student pa ako eh hindi pa uso ang internet. Meron man pero mabagal dahil dial-up ang connection. You are lucky these days dahil one click lang, makikita mo na sa web ano ang kailangan mo.
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