Category: Extracurricular
Planning a summer break to Barcelona, Spain

After a hard year of study a summer break is important to recharge your batteries and to provide a bit of fun and excitement in your life. This article focuses on top attractions in Barcelona, Spain which makes an ideal holiday location for young people across the world. Barcelona is the capital of Catalonia and second largest city of Spain [...]

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Netbooks or Laptops, Which to Use? The Advantages of Each Considered

Introduction Netbooks are changing the way we all use computers. Since first being released in 2008, they are fast becoming the latest craze and when the technology improves are forecast to become more popular than laptops. Whereas laptops became the cheaper alternative to desktop computers because they have the same capacity and usability but are more convenient because of their [...]

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How To Start a Successful Literary Magazine

For as long as there is an aspiring writer or an avid reader alive in the world, there will be room for outstanding literary magazines. Among the thousands of attempts at publishing great magazines people make every day all over the world, it is usually the magazines that have a knack for discovering talents that will soon move over to [...]

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Things I Wish I Would Have Known When I Graduated

I graduated in May of 2010 from a small private university in Southwest Florida. What met me as I walked off the stage in my cap and gown was a terrible job market and a slew of anxiety attacks. I didn’t know what I wanted and everything I’d been told – you know, going to college will get you a [...]

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Blogging for Grownups

Journalism isn’t what it used to be. What was once just a way for nerds to put their daily journals online has become a viable industry: blogging is now one of the most popular ways for people to make themselves heard. The versatility of blogs has been recognized by businesses and traditional news outlets as well: everyone from CNN to [...]

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3 Ways to Blow Your Reader Engagement through the Roof

If you’re really serious about blogging, you probably ought to start thinking about making sure readers will keep coming back for more.  And if you want to grow your readership you need to stand out from all of the other blogs that likely deal with some of the same topics that you cover. Making your blog interesting and ensuring that [...]

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How to Release Your Inner Voice

If you’ve called yourself a writer or even if you have ever referred, inferred or preferred yourself a writer, listen up… with your eyes preferably. Most of us stumble around in our minds often afraid to let out our thoughts because we aren’t sure that they were worth typing or scrawling out. We seek perfect moments when in truth there [...]

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5 Ideas to Boost Your Motivation

Do you find yourself struggling to accomplish goals and tasks on a constant basis? Even the simplest actions can send anyone into their rebellious, lazy minds sometimes. Though, there are ways around this, and there is always room for improvement. Inspiration We can all forget the things we are inspired by. When we neglect to remember, motivation can float away [...]

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Internships: Finally some “real” knowledge!

When I began my first internship, it was daunting.  No matter how much education I had, on the job I soon discovered that I knew nothing.  I was more of a hindrance to my mentor than a help.  I was a bumbling mess.  I had all the abstract, formal knowledge I could possibly want, but none of it prepared me [...]

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Why to go to Conferences and How to Pay for Them

If your career plans include doing research or teaching, you will be interacting with the academic community.  The best way to network and introduce yourself to this community is at academic conferences.  Conferences give you a scope of what other researchers and educators are working on and where you can fit into the grand scheme of things.  This type of [...]

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