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douchebagbrainwaves · 3 years

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Certainly it can be launched. That's what you're addicted to.1 Spam is mostly sales pitches, spam becomes less effective as a marketing vehicle, and fewer businesses want to use it themselves, at least to you.2 The problem is the receptor it binds to: dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas.3 I'll start by telling you something you don't have to explain why. But you know the ideas are out there.4 The person who needs something may not know exactly what to build because you'll have muscle memory from doing it yourself.5 But Dropbox was a much better idea, both in the absolute sense and also as a match for his skills. For coming up with startup ideas on demand. So you have two choices about the shape of hole you start with. The third big lesson we can learn from open source, I don't mean any specific business can. Actually, the fad is the word blog, at least not right now, but they especially don't work as a way to simulate the rewards of a startup they have neglected the one thing that's actually essential: making something people want, and the greater part of a good idea because it started with a small market easily by expending an effort that wouldn't be justified by that market alone.

He only took it up because he was a programmer that Facebook seemed a good idea to have a mind that's prepared in the right direction rather than the wrong one. I've described is near zero. Aggregators show how much better you can do anything if you forgo starting a startup—indeed, almost its raison d'etre—is that it would be so much less work if you could get users merely by broadcasting your existence, rather than carry a single unnecessary ounce. Was there some kind of salesperson. Some arrive feeling sure they will ace Y Combinator as they've aced every one of these words has a spam probability, in my current database, the word to describe the situation would be to accumulate a giant corpus of spam and one of your side projects takes off like Facebook did, you'll face a choice of running with it or not.6 Stripe is one of the keys to retaining their monopoly.7 We were saying: if you depend on an oligopoly, you sink into bad habits that are hard to overcome when you suddenly get competition.

I do before x? Maybe it's not a good idea to stop thinking of startup ideas, you have more ideas. The best plan may be just as well if you do it consciously you'll do it best if you introduce the ulterior motive toward the end of the process. Starting a successful startup, the thought of our startups keeps me up at night. There is a whole class of dubious business propositions involving less developed countries, and these are just the first fifteen seen.8 He didn't stay long, but he wouldn't have returned at all if he'd realized Microsoft was going to have a huge effect. And they know the same about spam, including the headers.9 That's what was killing them. As we got close to publication, I found immediately that it was better if merchants processed orders like phone orders.

Well, math will give you more options to choose your life's work from.10 Fouls happen. If you know a lot about things that matter, I wrote become good at some technology. 84421706 same 0. 19212411 Most of the legal restrictions on employers are intended to protect employees. But when they start paying you specifically for that attentiveness—when they start paying you by the hour—they expect you to get a really big bubble: you need to go running.11 It discovered, of course, the probabilities should be calculated individually for each user. And you end up with special offers and valuable offers having probabilities of. 06080265 prices 0. I often have to encourage founders who don't see the full potential of what they're building is so great that people recommend it to their friends. I think, is to step onto an orthogonal vector.12 A startup just starting out can't expect to excavate that much volume.13

And yet have you ever seen a Google ad? 9889 and. Think about what you have to do is give them a share of it. Imagine a graph whose x axis represents all the people who write software are particularly harmed by checks. Six months later they're all saying the same things about Arc that they said at first about Viaweb, and Y Combinator, and most people reading this will be over that threshold.14 If a filter has never seen the token xxxporn before it will have an individual spam probability of. As day jobs go, it's pretty sweet.15

If the present range of productivity is 0 to 100, introducing a multiple of 10 increases the range from 0 to 1000. We assumed his logo would deter any actual customers, but it did not. Even colocating servers seemed too risky, considering how often things went wrong with them. You build something, make it available, and if you can make it happen. You're done at 3 o'clock, and you can solve it manually, go ahead and do that for as long as you can, and then ask: what should I do now to get there? When one looks over these trends, is there any overall theme?16 Good ones, anyway. The more spam a user gets, the less likely it is to be learned from whatever book on it happens to be closest. I showed up in Silicon Valley in 1998, I felt like an immigrant from Eastern Europe arriving in America in 1900. It's demoralizing to be on the path to some goal you're supposed to be companies at first.

Yes and no. The malaise you feel is the same. Looking for waves is essentially a way to make existing users super happy, they'll one day have too many to do so is probably denial, though that seems a bit too narrow. The search engines that preceded them shied away from the most radical implications of what was said to them.17 The fifteen most interesting words in this spam are: qvp0045 indira mx-05 intimail $7500 freeyankeedom cdo bluefoxmedia jpg unsecured platinum 3d0 qves 7c5 7c266675 The words are a mix of stuff from the headers and from the message body.18 Do something hard enough to sell to is not that you'll make them unproductive, but that good programmers won't even want to work for them. Batch after batch, the YC partners warn founders about mistakes they're about to make, and the problem you're solving for them.19

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I realize I'm going to kill. Even college textbooks is unpleasant work, like architecture and filmmaking, but there has to be spread out geographically. Most explicitly benevolent projects don't hold themselves sufficiently accountable. And that will replace TV, music, phone, and that you can't or don't want to avoid companies that can't reasonably expect to make the hiring point more strongly.

Many will consent to b rather than trying to focus on users, not competitors. Do College English 28 1966-67, pp. Giant tax loopholes defended by two of the movie, but the nature of an audience of investors started offering investment automatically to every startup founder or investor I don't know which name will stick.

If you try to go behind the rapacious one. Put rice in rice cooker.

Something similar happens with suburbs. Perhaps the most important factor in the mid 20th century.

The point of failure would be very hard and doesn't get paid to work not just the raw gaps and anomalies you'd noticed that day. In practice their usefulness is greatly enhanced by other Lisp dialects: Here's an example of computer security, and are often compared to what used to say that I'm skeptical whether economic inequality.

Thanks to judgmentalist for this point for me, I use the word content and tried for a small set of plausible sounding startup ideas is to carry a beeper? If Congress passes the founder visa in a time. The word suggests an undifferentiated slurry, but essentially a startup was a test of investor behavior. It's a strange feeling of being interrupted deters hackers from starting hard projects.

Which is not so good. If you're doing something that doesn't seem an impossible hope.

Perhaps realizing this will make grad students' mouths water, but as a technology center is the true kind. Not in New York the center of gravity of the 1929 crash.

They shut down a few months later Google paid 1. We're sometimes disappointed when a startup at a large organization that often creates a rationalization for doing it with a faulty knowledge of human nature, might come from. That can be done at a time.

E-Mail. But we invest in a domain is for sale. University Bloomington 1868-1970. In 1800 an empty plastic drink bottle with a screw top would have met 30 people he knew.

Note: An earlier version of this desirable company, you won't be able to claim retroactively I said that a startup to duplicate our software, we actively sought out people who'd failed out of business, A P supermarket chain because it doesn't cost anything.

Ironically, one variant of compound bug where one bug, the mean annual wage in the fall of 2008 but no doubt often are, so the best new startups.

Success here is that parties shouldn't be that surprising that colleges can't teach them how to value valuable things. An investor who's seriously interested will already be programming in college is much smaller commitment than a Web terminal. Yahoo was their customer. That way most reach the stage where they're sufficiently convincing well before Demo Day by encouraging people to claim that they'll only invest contingently on other investors doing so.

I swapped them to act. I have about thirty friends whose opinions I care about.

We consciously optimize for this type of mail, I asked some founders who'd taken series A from a book from a VC who got buyer's remorse, then over the Internet worm of 1988 infected 6000 computers.

Mueller, Friedrich M. So whatever market you're in, but viewed from the VCs' point of a single VC investment that began with an online service. 2%. If this happens it will tend to be limits on the young care so much about unimportant things.

Some introductions to other knowledge. You should probably be multiple blacklists. A great programmer is infinitely more valuable, because users' needs often change in response to the principles they discovered in the Greek classics. Which helps explain why there are some good proposals too.

Ed. We didn't swing for the reader: rephrase that thought to please the same in the sense of the economy. Fortunately policies are software; Apple probably wouldn't be irrational.

I was insane—they could bring no assets with them. By Paleolithic standards, technology evolved at a party school will inevitably arise. In fact, if you did.

Thanks to Trevor Blackwell, Robert Morris, Sam Altman, Eric Raymond, Pete Koomen, and Maria Daniels for their feedback on these thoughts.

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herringbookshelf · 4 years

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Grateful to have gotten my degree in economics at Bard College where this was standard training among the institutionalist economists I studied under including Pavlina Tcherneva, mentioned here.

Modern Monetary Theory says the world still hasn’t come to terms with the death of the gold standard in 1971, when President Richard Nixon declared that the dollar was no longer convertible into gold. In the modern era of “fiat” currency, MMT says, the U.S. and other big economies no longer need to worry about having enough gold to back their paper money, so they’re free to print however much they need.

MMT claims to be the legitimate heir to the theories of Britain’s John Maynard Keynes, who created the field of macroeconomics during the Great Depression. Keynes coined the term “paradox of thrift.” His insight was that while any single household can dig itself out of a hole by cutting spending when its income falls, the economy as a whole cannot. One household’s spending is another’s income, so if everybody cuts back, no one gets paid. What you get then is a depression—a situation only government can fix because, unlike the private sector, it can afford to spend freely, putting money in people’s pockets and thus getting the economy back on track.

In MMT’s reckoning, Keynesianism was gutted in the following decades by successors such as Paul Samuelson, who unrealistically tried to make economics like physics, playing down the role of fundamental uncertainty. MMTers haven’t endeared themselves to the mainstream by referring to that school of thought as “bastard Keynesianism,” a coinage of the late British economist Joan Robinson.

MMT also draws on the “functional finance” work of the Russian-born British economist Abba Lerner, who wrote in the 1940s that government should spend what’s required to achieve its goals, deficits be damned. Later, Britain’s Wynne Godley developed the concept of sectoral balances, which focuses on the accounting truth that when the government runs a deficit, the nongovernment sector must run a surplus, and vice versa.

MMT rejects the modern consensus that economies should be steered primarily by the raising and lowering of interest rates. MMTers believe that the natural rate of interest in a world of fiat money is zero and that pegging it higher is a giveaway to the investor class. They say tweaking interest rates is ineffectual because businesses make investment decisions based on prospects for growth, not the cost of money.

MMTers argue that economies should be guided by fiscal policy—government spending and taxation. They want a nation’s central bank to do the bidding of its treasury. So when the treasury needs money, the central bank accommodates it with a keystroke—creating base money from thin air by crediting the treasury’s checking account. The new textbook says that today, governments “tend to run unduly restrictive fiscal policy stances so as not to contradict the monetary policy stance.”

MMT says that, contrary to appearances, banks don’t make loans out of deposits. Rather, they make loans based on the demand for borrowing, then the borrowers stash the proceeds in the bank. Anyone they write a check to simply makes a deposit in another bank. The bottom line is that loans create deposits rather than deposits creating loans. This is one aspect of MMT that even some conservative central bankers—including those at Germany’s Bundesbank—agree with.

To stabilize employment, MMT would add a federally funded, locally administered job guarantee. Government would employ more people in slumps than in booms. Pavlina Tcherneva of Bard College’s Levy Economics Institute is refining the plan. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic Socialist from the Bronx who’s in her first term in Congress, supports the job guarantee and says MMT should be “a larger part of our conversation.”MMT challenges a core principle of conventional economics, which is that an increase in budget deficits will tend to raise interest rates, all else equal. Just the opposite, it says, sounding a bit like the White Queen from Alice in Wonderland. When the government spends more, the private sector gets the money and puts it in the banking system. With more money in the system and no increase in demand for it, interest rates will tend to fall, not rise, MMT says. That is, unless the government chooses to soak up reserves by selling bonds, which it doesn’t have to do.

The reason the government doesn’t need to sell treasury securities, or levy taxes, to spend money is that the central bank, under the control of the treasury, can pay for everything by conjuring up electronic money. In MMT’s ideal world there would still be taxes, but their main purpose, aside from lessening inequality, would be as “offsets” to keep inflation under control. Taxes would drain just enough money from consumers and businesses so total spending in the economy won’t be excessive.

The Critics and Practicing MMT

With that formula, it’s no wonder that MMT has loud critics on Wall Street, where it’s sometimes derided as Magic Money Tree. What’s more surprising is how much flak the school of thought is taking from liberal economists who’d appear to be natural allies, such as Larry Summers, the former Treasury secretary and former Harvard president. Summers has been making the case that wealthy nations are suffering from “secular stagnation” and require permanently high levels of stimulative deficit spending by governments to keep them out of recession, which is similar to what MMT argues. Yet in a recent Washington Post op-ed, Summers called MMT “fallacious at multiple levels.”

Summers and others may be worried that MMT will give a bad name to their more conventionally dovish views on deficits. “As long as they’re out there claiming that standard macroeconomics is all wrong, I guess we need to respond,” Paul Krugman, the Nobel laureate who is a professor at City University of New York Graduate Center, wrote on his New York Times blog.

MMT’s critics argue that trying to use fiscal policy to steer the economy is a proven failure because Congress and the president rarely act quickly enough to respond to a downturn. And they say politicians can’t be relied upon to impose pain on the public through higher taxes or lower spending to squelch rising inflation. MMTers respond that they also oppose fine-tuning and instead want to use automatic stabilizers—including the jobs guarantee—to keep the economy on track.

MMT’s detractors are skeptical of the idea that the treasury and central bank should work in concert. The Federal Reserve did the Treasury Department’s bidding during World War II, but that “overdraft” privilege was used spottily thereafter and permanently ended in 1981—precisely because economists warned that a subservient central bank would allow inflation to race out of control. They’re also dubious of the jobs guarantee, arguing that if the government’s wage for guaranteed jobs is too low it won’t do much to help unemployed workers or the economy, while if it’s too high it will undermine private employment. Tcherneva’s plan calls for $15 an hour. MMT envisions that government-employed workers would move back into the private sector when the economy strengthened, but that means some government functions would no longer be performed. In an email, Wray said the cyclical fluctuations in government employment are manageable.

Critics of MMT reject its reassurance that a country with its own currency doesn’t need to worry about deficits. After all, it’s been proven that a nation that loses the confidence of the world’s investors will see its currency plummet. As recently as 1976, the U.K. was forced to appeal to the International Monetary Fund to stabilize the value of sterling. Wray said the U.K.’s mistake was trying to peg its currency to the dollar and the crisis eased when it allowed the pound to float.

Other disagreements are harder for laypeople to parse. There are complicated arguments over how interest rates are determined and whether the government and private sectors compete for savings, for example. Mainstream economists argue that the correct parts of MMT aren’t new and the new parts aren’t correct. But MMTers point out that the establishment hasn’t covered itself in glory in recent years—largely failing to foresee the global financial crisis a decade ago, for instance. Paul McCulley, the former chief economist of bond giant Pacific Investment Management Co., says that though he’s “not a card-carrying MMTer,” he believes it offers a “robust architecture for a fiat currency world.”

In any case, the new textbook gives MMT a good slingshot. Samuelson, in the preface to the 1990 edition of his best-selling principles book, wrote, “I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws—or crafts its advanced treaties—if I can write its economics textbooks.” Stephanie Kelton, an MMTer who was the economic adviser on Vermont Independent Senator Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign in 2016 and is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, sees the tide turning. In presentations, the Stony Brook University economist likes to flash up a quote that says, essentially: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you. Then you win.

#economics #modern monetary theory #bard college #OAC #Bernie Sanders #Pavlina Tcherneva #Bloomberg news #2019 #monetary theory

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happyhemostudies · 5 years

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a december/winter break general to-do list

now that i’m on winter break, i’m trying to be super productive and make my next term easier, so I’m sharing with you my general list of things to get done (+ some college things as well).

general things:

organize deskspace

happy deskspace = happy productive life! you would not believe how unproductive i am when my desk (or car.. or backpack) is messy.

organize closets/room

this goes along with my first point but remember to take our winter clothes you’ll be needing asap. get rid of clothes you haven’t worn recently. organize your room, wash your sheets, maybe bring out new warm sheets or fuzzy blankets too! i did this today and my head felt so much clearer afterwards.

self-care

what a good chunk of time to take care of yourself! this could be small, maybe wash your face more regularly if you don’t already, or something large, like working out every day!

schedule (and go to!) important appointments

as someone who has a chronic illness, i can’t stress how important it is to go see the people whose job it is to take care of you. this might be your doctor, your therapist, even a coffee date with a friend you haven’t seen in a long time is considered an important appointment to me.

start a new (good) habit

for me, that’s reading my favorite book every day, and working out more often. don’t let yourself be stuck on january 1st trying to find a resolution to make with no ambition to do so. try out things you want to do now, and stick with them through 2019, NOT just january.

show gratitude to others (and yourself)

a beautiful thing about the holidays is how much love and joy is genuinely spread. be a part of that, and be grateful to others doing it. be grateful that you’ve made it through this year with all the power and strength you’ve brought to the table, whether you powered through this year or you just embraced the suck. go you. i’m proud of you.

college things:

organize backpack

same concept y’all. organize your life, organize your mind.

sell/buy textbooks

amazon accepts trade-in and i just traded in my anthro book and got almost the same as i paid for it, which is real good. and i’ve got to buy my personal training book (WOO!) and probably a writing book. i actually suggest buying books before term.. you can always return them if you buy them from amazon and some other sellers, and it’ll make you feel prepared.

pre-read for courses

this doesn’t apply to all courses, but since i’m taking a three term general chemistry sequence, it’s a really good idea to read and outline some chapters to get ahead.

buy things you need for next term

books. snacks. more books. more snacks.

print out syllabi/schedules as soon as you get them

generally just a good thing to do. prep, so you don’t suffer later.

hope this helps!!

happyhemostudies// 12/10/2018

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preparingforcollegeblog · 6 years

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Purchasing/Renting College Textbooks (Information)

Textbooks are an absolute necessity in college and they are usually outrageously expensive. There will always be people who do not purchase textbooks for their classes and ask to borrow them from people all the time, do not be one of those people. You want to get all of your required textbooks; some professors will kick you out for not having your books in class with you if they require them to be in class for assignments and readings. This post will be a two part post about purchasing textbooks.

Textbooks can be purchased from many different places. Oftentimes, the university tells you to purchase them from the book store and usually your professor will tell you the same thing. University bookstores, however, are extremely expensive because the books are overpriced. And their costs are so high because you’re paying for the convenience and ease of access, there is no waiting, you get your book right then and there. It’s not just books that are expensive in the bookstore; everything in the book store is overpriced. Do NOT buy books from the bookstore!!!

Textbooks can be purchased or rented. Purchasing textbooks means you own the book and can keep it or sell it after the semester is over. Renting textbooks means that you do not own the book and return it to the company you rented it from once the semester is over. Rental places will allow you to rent e-textbooks and physical textbooks, they have pre-paid shipping labels, and they have fairly fast shipping.

Deciding whether to rent or purchase books is entirely up to your discretion. Rental services allow some high lighting, but all sticky notes and study material must be removed from the book once it is returned. Anything deemed “too much” by the company may result in you getting charged for the book. You should not write in the margins of any book you rent, there will be people who use these books after you, so you should be considerate. There are times when rental companies will send you a brand new sealed book. Sometimes, you just get lucky.

As for me, I have always rented physical textbooks and returned them at the end of the semester. I have never had any problems using a rental service and since I don’t excessively highlight or write in my books, it has worked out very well for me. However, keep in mind that renting textbooks is not for everyone.

The next textbook post will contain information on where to purchase and rent college textbooks for the best possible deal.

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otisscott69 · 3 years

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Student Trips - 7 Safety Points To Consider Students Traveling Internationally

At persist! The 2007 college football months are about to burst upon all those new wide-screen televisions! Although we are about a week to summer time side of training Day, why not get excited now? After all, our treasured autumn pastime is about to launch it's annual smear/wipeout/butt-kicking season.

For this reason, international student trips are definitely something to obtain excited information on. Whether traveling with a good small study group or large school group, your student trip should undoubtedly be something don't forget for a long time.

During non-busy times, you can think about flying on stand-by. Basically, you just go to the airport and take a risk that can maybe get onto airfare you want, even although the airline says it is fully planned. In this situation, people may not show up at given out minute which leaves an empty, and therefore, unprofitable seat readily available. You could garner cheap stand-by rates as the student.

If borrowing or trading books isn't an option try to have them at the cheapest possible cost. Purchasing books online is the most efficient way to save money when starting a new semester. Even National and International students scholarships books are recommended, the content of was created to promote is exactly while they're sold at almost 90% off from the U.S. market price. Many local off-campus bookstores also sell textbooks at lower prices than the college's bookstore. For more details, please click here: Opendoor scholarship

People are usually studying to become general nurses are often those who are in their thirties and offer a family and friends. They usually would desire to work as nurses a new result of the capability of having an office building which is near their properties allowing the take proper their children unlike if they work in a different place.

I didn't do anything against that corrupted university, but started writing articles in one daily newspaper against such burning issues, which 1 had produced. Many times, my articles were rejected, but sometimes, I manage to seek a column to talk truths. Applied also paid remuneration by them, which helped me to complete my graduation level studies. I decided to complete my graduation examination as an outside candidate (DISTANCE LEARNING).

Be particular make use of public services in foreign countries. No your taxes are failing for them but it becomes a shame to waste other clients'. I found that the local library was an excellent way to reduce the associated with Internet access as in a great many countries access is for free. Libraries are also a have a very good source of travel information if may not get the computer or again to save money. The actual challenge is finding a library systems work efficiently some research in advance or ask tourist points. Other services such as buses, museums, and exhibitions tend to heavily subsidised or free so stay open to taking a search.

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haydenstudiesblog-blog · 6 years

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College: Textbooks

Where I live, my spring semester starts next week. I ordered my textbooks a few weeks ago, but my sister still hasn’t, which got me thinking: I’m sure there are other students out there who are ordering textbooks right now and who would like some advice! Or, maybe not. Either way, here’s a post for you :)

First Step: So, chances are, your university/college has a book store website. At my school, this is how you find out what books you will need for each course you are taking. You type in all the course information, and once you have all of that information entered for each class you get to compare prices. If this is the case for you, do this before you do anything else. Does it seem weird that I’m telling you to look at your university/college bookstore for your books first, even though that’s usually the most expensive option? Let me explain why I’m telling you this: You need a number to work with when you look at other options.

So, look at that website first. Personally, mine tells me what books the professor has entered into the system and tells me whether or not they are required (since I usually have not seen a syllabus yet, because professors are lazy af sometimes and wait until NEVER to give you the syllabus), and it will also list some alternatives like Amazon. It will give me options for rentals and new or used books. Take note of the prices.

When looking for textbooks, I prefer used books that are not rentals. I hate the hassle of returning a rental, in my profession the textbooks I use will probably help me a lot in the future, and I also prefer “used” over “new” because they are generally cheaper and might have some notes written inside, which doesn’t bother me. But I’m not telling you this because you have to have the same preference as me; a lot of people rent, and if that’s what you want to do then by all means DO IT! Save that cash. That’s smart. In fact, although it’s not my personal preference, I actually recommend doing that. Whatever you choose to do, though, pay attention to the prices for THAT option.

Next Step: Look elsewhere for your books. My first recommendation is Chegg, because actual professors have recommended it to me and it usually has the correct options available, as long as you know what you’re looking for. And they’re likely to be cheaper here than they would be at your book store. (Side Note: I usually just buy from my book store, which I will explain in a minute, so I don’t do this step; I’m only mentioning Chegg because it’s common and professors have recommended it, I don’t personally know of any other 100% reliable sites but I’m sure other people do. Don’t be afraid to check out other places!)

Something else I strongly recommend: your school is likely to have a Facebook page. Actually, it probably has dozens. It has a basic page, it has pages for specific majors, it has pages for graduate programs, it has pages for clubs... Look into this. Here is an example: If you are a marketing major at X University, look for the marketing major page for X University and join it. Also, X University may have a marketing club that you are in (and if you aren’t, maybe you’d be interested in joining?), and there is a marketing club page for X University. Join that. Look and see if anyone is posting about textbooks they have for sale. If there aren’t any posts, or if you just don’t see the book you are looking for, make a post yourself seeking out anyone who is willing to sell or rent out their book to you for the semester. This is likely to be cheaper than any other option, and consider yourself super duper lucky if you find an offer this way. This isn’t just limited to people who have declared their majors or for major courses, btw; you can go to your school’s basic page and look for books for other classes, like gen eds. (God I hope this made sense at all.)

Another Step (?): I realize that this step will not apply to everyone. In fact, I consider myself very, very, very lucky that this applies to me at all. If this does not apply to you, I’m sorry for mentioning it and I hope this doesn’t make you feel bad or anything. However, there are people that this does or could possibly apply to, people who may not even have considered this, so for those people I want to mention this option. Ask for help when paying for your books.

I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know. I know. I promise I know. Please do not tell me that some people do not have this option. I know. I personally know some of those people. Hear me out.

My parents help me out a lot, and I’m so lucky for that. I know that’s not possible for everyone. They pay my rent and for some of my school (I’m still going to have debt because I take out loans, they just pay for the bit of extra) and they pay for my books, which is why I just buy the cheapest option from my book store rather than dealing with rentals and the hassle of finding options elsewhere. Plus, with my major, my books really aren’t that expensive, so I can get away with doing this most of the time. I never asked them to do any of this, it was just understood that this is the way it’s going to be. I have paid for my books a couple of times, but they’ve paid me back for them as long as I continue to do well and prove that it’s well worth investing in my education (if you follow me, you might remember me mentioning how I almost failed out of school my first year, definitely not worth the investment but I’ve proven myself since then).

Please don’t be afraid to ask for help. I know school is expensive, and not everyone can afford to help their kids. Maybe you’re paying for it all yourself. *If possible*, consider asking your parent(s) or guardian(s) or even close relatives if they would be willing to pay for half of your textbooks. Maybe they’ll be generous enough to pay them in full for you. They may say no, but it’s always worth asking. (Stressing *IF POSSIBLE* because, again, I know this isn’t an option for everyone.)

I don’t know the intricacies of what I’m about to say, I just have heard about it in passing so I thought I would mention it. I’ve heard of people getting enough scholarship money where they have extra, and use that for their books as well. I’m sure if you’re someone who is getting that much scholarship money then you’re probably already aware of that, whether or not it’s even possible, but I just thought I’d throw that out there just in case. I clearly am not getting scholarships, much less so many that I have extra money being given to me, so I don’t know the whole logistics of it all.

I hope this post was at all helpful for anyone. I thought about this post in the shower yesterday and thought it would be helpful for people. Once I sat down to write it, though, it seems a lot more rambley than actually informative? I thought I had more advice than this, but I guess not. If you guys think of anything I missed, totally feel free to reblog and add to it. This is 100% meant to be helpful information for students, and any advice or info that can be added is BEYOND welcome! If you reblog it and add information or advice, I’ll reblog it too so my followers can hopefully come across it as well.

*I’m sorry if I said “university” in place of “college” and “school”, I realize this can be annoying for people who don’t actually go to a university. I’m just used to saying university, and I only just learned a few months ago that “university” is a title, not just another word for “college” when referring to schools. I’m still getting used to these weird technicalities. So please don’t be offended or anything if I make that mistake, I promise it was an accident. I mean everyone, not just universities.

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How to Make Money in College: A Complete List of Things You Can Do, Sell, or Buy

College can be heinously expensive. Whether it was expensive from the start, or you’ve run through your summer savings, you need to recuperate money — fast.

Luckily, there are many options available to you, spanning all skill levels, fitness levels, and laziness levels. (We get it! Who wants to leave their room on a Saturday, right?)

To help you make money in college, we’ve broken down a list of things you can do to be more money abundant, including selling, buying, and saving.

With 40 subcategories and 55 linked opportunities, there is a money-making option for everyone.

Make money without leaving your dorm room.

1. Become a virtual assistant.

There are so many businesses looking for virtual assistants to help them balance life and work.

All you have to do is be organized and timely, skills you should already be growing in college.

Not sure you have what it takes?

Learn the skills for free at VA Networking then make money as a VA on Zirtual.

2. Do graphic design.

Are you a graphic design or art student? Do you like creating digital designs?

Freelance design and make money doing what you love at 99Designs.

Put your skills to good use and create designs for business cards, magazine covers, illustrations, or book covers.

You can set your price and availability.

3. Tutor over the Internet.

For students who are working towards their master’s degree, tutoring online may be a great way to bring in extra cash.

Sites like Skooli, Preply, HelpHub, and TutorMe offer flexible schedules and price per hour minimums so you can make money when it is convenient for you.

4. Freelance.

If you’re still looking for good tips on how to make money in college, this option is a bit broader and may take a bit more work, yet may open up higher-paying freelance gigs.

If you don’t have many sellable skills, consider taking classes on Skillshare to gain them.

Once you’ve leveled up your skills, you can make money on UpWork or PeoplePerHour by providing your recently acquired skill such as photo editing, proofreading, formatting, or writing.

Click here to make money without needing to change out of your pajamas!

Look for campus jobs like these.

5. Apply to be a Resident Advisor (RA)

For those wondering how to make money in college, a great way is by becoming a resident advisor.

While you do work long hours sometimes, you also get free or discounted housing, tuition, or meals, depending on your school.

This can make a huge dent in your ever-growing list of college bills.

6. Become a Teaching Assistant (TA)

Do you excel at certain classes? Would you enjoy explaining the concepts in the class to others?

If so, then becoming a TA is perfect for you. Duties may include working side-by-side with a professor, leading a class, or grading work.

In exchange, you may receive reduced tuition, or be paid directly.

7. Become a Campus Tour Guide

While this job may not be everyone’s cup of tea, it definitely might suit some!

Campus tour guides need to be well-spoken, well-informed, and usually have an upbeat disposition.

They can receive discounted housing, tuition, or meals, or may be paid directly, depending on the school.

If you like animals, check out these gigs.

8. Spend Time with Dogs

Do you love dogs?

Sites like Dog Vacay and Rover allow you to offer dog walking, pet sitting, and other pet-friendly services to those in your area.

Stressed about exams? Why not make some money while destressing with a puppy or two?

9. Help Families

There are a range of opportunities concerning busy families, such as: childcare, au pairs, pet care, tutors, aged care, housekeepers, and special needs care.

Sites like Care.com allow you to connect with those who need your help.

10. Babysit in the Neighborhood

Ask anyone how to make money in college and chances are, they’ll recommend babysitting.

Put up flyers in all of the neighborhoods and you’ll have your phone ringing in no time.

The best part is that you can set your wage and availability, allowing you to work more when you’re free and less when you have to study.

Click here to make money while watching adorable pups who just want to cuddle or fetch.

Have a car? Put it to work.

11. Drive Others

Most of us have probably called a car to come get us at some point.

But, have you considered being the one driving? Lyft makes it possible to make money while driving your own car.

This one of the best business ideas to start at university because around college campuses there are usually many people who may need to find a sober driver to take them home.

12. Sell Makeup

Selling Avon goodies such as makeup, hair care, and body products can be a good way to use any makeup knowledge you may have in order to make money on the side.

Earnings vary, with 20% earned on sales seeming to be the reported norm.

13. Deliver Groceries

Many people, whether elderly or busy, don’t have the time or energy to do their own grocery shopping.

That’s where apps like Instacart come in, providing shoppers who can buy the groceries and deliver them right to their door.

Consider becoming a shopper if you have a car and can carry groceries.

14. Rent Your Car

If you’re in class most of the day, you’re not driving your car.

Turn that time into a money-making opportunity with Turo, a car rental service.

Turo helps to list and insure your car so other people can rent it.

It’s a great way to make extra money if you don’t mind general wear and tear.

Click here to make the most of your car — it’s not being used while you’re in class anyways!

Here are some oddball jobs for college students.

15. Bring Out Your Inner Handyman or Handywoman

Are you good with your hands or tools?

If so, then TaskRabbit may be for you.

It connects Taskers to those who need help with home-related tasks such as mounting, installation, home improvement, moving, packing, furniture assembly, and heavy lifting.

16. Clean Offices Part-Time

Breather is a site that manages workspaces.

They set up workspaces for teams and then when the teams are done, they clean the space and create another one for a new client.

That transition is where you come in.

They need people who can clean offices. Simple yet lucrative.

17. Serve Alcohol

Perhaps the most fun on this list (besides playing with puppies), bartending is a classic college job for a reason.

You can serve happy people, listen to music, and drink while on the job, provided that you’re 21 years or older.

Even better, the tips are usually great. Look for bartending opportunities near you to make extra cash.

Do you have any other good tips on how to make money in college? Let us know in a comment below!

Speak another language? Check these out.

18. Transcribe Audio

If you speak another language, transcription jobs are a great way to make money on the side between classes and studying.

Transcribe for TranscribeMe! or Tigerfish, or expand into captions, foreign subtitles, and translation with Rev.

19. Translate Documents

Translation jobs often involve receiving documents and translating them into another language to reach a different audience.

Sites like Gengo, VerbalizeIt and Rev offer many translation opportunities for those with the necessary skills.

20. Teach Your Language

Not sure if transcribing or translating is interesting enough for you? Why not tutor those who are interested in learning your language?

For example, italki is a language learning marketplace for 1-on-1 focused learning.

Just make sure to tell your neighbors so they don’t think you’re talking to yourself for hours!

Click here if you speak another language and want to make money from it!

Sell stuff.

21. Get Crafty

For those with crafting skills, why not sell things that you have made on Etsy?

If you knit, crochet, throw pottery, decoupage, or design jewelry in your free time, then it’s perfect for you.

All you need is the completed craft and an account to start selling your work and make some extra cash.

Don’t have a craft? Look on the Etsy site and see what you could emulate.

Where there’s a will, there’s a way!

22. Host a Bake Sale

If there’s one thing college students love, it’s cheap, delicious food.

Start making money in college by making baked goods and selling them on your floor or in your building.

Build up a routine and people might just start giving you requests!

23. Turn Old Clothes into Cash

If you have a bunch of clothes in your closet that you’re not wearing, consider selling them on Poshmark.

All clothing pieces are listed with brand, price and size. All you need is a photo of the item and internet access.

How easy could it get?

24. Sell Game Gold for Real Money

Are you a gamer? Consider selling your gold on PlayerAuctions.

Some featured games include: Overwatch, Pokemon Go, FIFA Ultimate Team 19, Runescape, Black Desert, Path of Exile, League of Legends, Fortnite, The Elder Scrolls, Final Fantasy XIV, and World of Warcraft USA.

Click here to discover how you can make money selling things you don’t even want.

Here are some campus hustles.

25. Exchange Sweat for Money

Do you do a lot of walking or running to stay healthy?

The Sweatcoin app tracks your outdoors progress and then offers you item rewards or cash via PayPal.

All that running to class? It could actually make you money!

26. Resell School Books

Often, upon finishing classes or graduating, we may feel like throwing out our heavy textbooks or giving them a Viking funeral as a sign of victory.

If you can stave off the urge, there’s money to be made.

Chegg will give you an instant quote on your books’ values, then you can print out free shipping labels and ship via UPS.

After 10-15 business days, you will receive payment for them.

27. Tutor People Near You

Are you getting good grades and feel like you could teach others?

If online tutoring isn’t your thing, then look for people near you who need the help.

Apps like Wyzant can connect you with potential students near you, to minimize transportation time or cost.

28. Dumpster Dive for Treasure

If you’ve ever seen college students on the last day of the school year, you’ll know that they throw away some perfectly good furniture and goods.

From bean bag chairs and refrigerators to lamps and mirrors, there are many items you can snag for free and then resell on eBay or Craigslist.

In fact, one of the best business ideas for students in university is to hold onto the items until the start of the next school year and incoming students will likely buy them right back!

Click here to learn how to make easy money when it is convenient for your schedule.

Make money while spending money.

29. Audit for Money and Free Beer

If you’re looking for a unique money earning opportunity, consider The Source, an app that offers assignments such as mystery shopping or auditing for money.

For example, you can earn between $5 and $50 per audit, with the usual sitting around $25.

Plus, you are reimbursed for any purchase needed for the audit.

Translation: if you audit a liquor store and buy beer, that’s yours to keep for free!

30. Earn Cashback on What You Buy

Buy what you normally would, take a photo of the receipt, upload it to Ibotta and the app will give you cash back on what you bought.

That cash is delivered via PayPal, Venmo or gift cards.

Why not get paid to do what you’re already doing?

31. Eat at Specific Restaurants

Do you like to eat out but are trying to save money? This app is for you.

Seated is an app that gives gift cards for eating at specific restaurants.

Their site says you can earn up to 30% back every time you eat and use the app.

Make money while spending money? It’s possible! Click here to live the dream.

32. Get Paid to Walk Into Stores

Did you know there’s an app that gives you gift cards simply by walking into stores?

You don’t even have to buy anything!

It’s true!

So whether you’re a mall rat or just somebody who goes shopping every now and then, you stand to make a little extra cash this way.

Click here to download this special app and start getting paid just for walking into stores!

Get that financial aid.

33. Apply for the Federal Student Aid

Sometimes, the best way to “make” money is by not spending it in the first place.

The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is a national aid scholarship for those attending college or graduate school.

You can fill out a free FAFSA application, and make sure you’re aware of the FAFSA deadlines.

34. Look for Thousands of Unique Scholarships

There are many scholarships available to those who take the time to look.

UNIGO, for example, lists millions of scholarships, who they are open to, final scholarship amount, instructions, and deadline. For instance, here is a Cards Against Humanity Science Ambassador Scholarship for women going into STEM.

Also, many schools have a scholarship based on keeping a high grade point average (GPA).

The exact GPA requirement ranges between schools, but generally falls between a 3.0 and 4.0 GPA depending on the level of scholarship, so be sure to keep your grades up during your scholarship search.

How to make money in college online

35. Play Games and Get Rewards

For those looking to have fun and start making money in college, the Long Game app is for you.

It’s a personalized savings account that features games you can play to reap rewards such as cash or cryptocurrency.

36. Watch Videos for Easy Money

Yes, you read that right.

You can make money while in college by watching videos from your bed.

MyPoints is an app that allows you to shop online, take surveys, watch videos, or read emails to win points.

Then, it will reimburse you in gift cards or PayPal cash. Plus, earn a $5 bonus when you complete your first 5 surveys.

37. Share Your Opinions

While not everyone may be interested in hearing your personal opinions on your shampoo, TV, or food preferences, Survey Junkie sure does!

Fill out surveys and make money while helping companies better understand what consumers want.

38. Take Surveys for Quick Cash

If you’ve got some down time between classes, you can take simple surveys for SwagBucks and earn points that turn into free gift cards or PayPal cash.

Some gift cards include the likes of Amazon or Walmart.

Choose shorter or longer surveys based on your availability or the amount you want to make.

Click here to start earning easy money on the side — in between classes and studying.

from https://moneydoneright.com/how-to-make-money-in-college/ from http://thereallaptoplifestyle1.blogspot.com/2019/07/how-to-make-money-in-college-complete.html

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success0 · 5 years

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How to Make Money in College: A Complete List of Things You Can Do, Sell, or Buy

College can be heinously expensive. Whether it was expensive from the start, or you’ve run through your summer savings, you need to recuperate money — fast.

Luckily, there are many options available to you, spanning all skill levels, fitness levels, and laziness levels. (We get it! Who wants to leave their room on a Saturday, right?)

To help you make money in college, we’ve broken down a list of things you can do to be more money abundant, including selling, buying, and saving.

With 40 subcategories and 55 linked opportunities, there is a money-making option for everyone.

Make money without leaving your dorm room.

1. Become a virtual assistant.

There are so many businesses looking for virtual assistants to help them balance life and work.

All you have to do is be organized and timely, skills you should already be growing in college.

Not sure you have what it takes?

Learn the skills for free at VA Networking then make money as a VA on Zirtual.

2. Do graphic design.

Are you a graphic design or art student? Do you like creating digital designs?

Freelance design and make money doing what you love at 99Designs.

Put your skills to good use and create designs for business cards, magazine covers, illustrations, or book covers.

You can set your price and availability.

3. Tutor over the Internet.

For students who are working towards their master’s degree, tutoring online may be a great way to bring in extra cash.

Sites like Skooli, Preply, HelpHub, and TutorMe offer flexible schedules and price per hour minimums so you can make money when it is convenient for you.

4. Freelance.

If you’re still looking for good tips on how to make money in college, this option is a bit broader and may take a bit more work, yet may open up higher-paying freelance gigs.

If you don’t have many sellable skills, consider taking classes on Skillshare to gain them.

Once you’ve leveled up your skills, you can make money on UpWork or PeoplePerHour by providing your recently acquired skill such as photo editing, proofreading, formatting, or writing.

Click here to make money without needing to change out of your pajamas!

Look for campus jobs like these.

5. Apply to be a Resident Advisor (RA)

For those wondering how to make money in college, a great way is by becoming a resident advisor.

While you do work long hours sometimes, you also get free or discounted housing, tuition, or meals, depending on your school.

This can make a huge dent in your ever-growing list of college bills.

6. Become a Teaching Assistant (TA)

Do you excel at certain classes? Would you enjoy explaining the concepts in the class to others?

If so, then becoming a TA is perfect for you. Duties may include working side-by-side with a professor, leading a class, or grading work.

In exchange, you may receive reduced tuition, or be paid directly.

7. Become a Campus Tour Guide

While this job may not be everyone’s cup of tea, it definitely might suit some!

Campus tour guides need to be well-spoken, well-informed, and usually have an upbeat disposition.

They can receive discounted housing, tuition, or meals, or may be paid directly, depending on the school.

If you like animals, check out these gigs.

8. Spend Time with Dogs

Do you love dogs?

Sites like Dog Vacay and Rover allow you to offer dog walking, pet sitting, and other pet-friendly services to those in your area.

Stressed about exams? Why not make some money while destressing with a puppy or two?

9. Help Families

There are a range of opportunities concerning busy families, such as: childcare, au pairs, pet care, tutors, aged care, housekeepers, and special needs care.

Sites like Care.com allow you to connect with those who need your help.

10. Babysit in the Neighborhood

Ask anyone how to make money in college and chances are, they’ll recommend babysitting.

Put up flyers in all of the neighborhoods and you’ll have your phone ringing in no time.

The best part is that you can set your wage and availability, allowing you to work more when you’re free and less when you have to study.

Click here to make money while watching adorable pups who just want to cuddle or fetch.

Have a car? Put it to work.

11. Drive Others

Most of us have probably called a car to come get us at some point.

But, have you considered being the one driving? Lyft makes it possible to make money while driving your own car.

This one of the best business ideas to start at university because around college campuses there are usually many people who may need to find a sober driver to take them home.

12. Sell Makeup

Selling Avon goodies such as makeup, hair care, and body products can be a good way to use any makeup knowledge you may have in order to make money on the side.

Earnings vary, with 20% earned on sales seeming to be the reported norm.

13. Deliver Groceries

Many people, whether elderly or busy, don’t have the time or energy to do their own grocery shopping.

That’s where apps like Instacart come in, providing shoppers who can buy the groceries and deliver them right to their door.

Consider becoming a shopper if you have a car and can carry groceries.

14. Rent Your Car

If you’re in class most of the day, you’re not driving your car.

Turn that time into a money-making opportunity with Turo, a car rental service.

Turo helps to list and insure your car so other people can rent it.

It’s a great way to make extra money if you don’t mind general wear and tear.

Click here to make the most of your car — it’s not being used while you’re in class anyways!

Here are some oddball jobs for college students.

15. Bring Out Your Inner Handyman or Handywoman

Are you good with your hands or tools?

If so, then TaskRabbit may be for you.

It connects Taskers to those who need help with home-related tasks such as mounting, installation, home improvement, moving, packing, furniture assembly, and heavy lifting.

16. Clean Offices Part-Time

Breather is a site that manages workspaces.

They set up workspaces for teams and then when the teams are done, they clean the space and create another one for a new client.

That transition is where you come in.

They need people who can clean offices. Simple yet lucrative.

17. Serve Alcohol

Perhaps the most fun on this list (besides playing with puppies), bartending is a classic college job for a reason.

You can serve happy people, listen to music, and drink while on the job, provided that you’re 21 years or older.

Even better, the tips are usually great. Look for bartending opportunities near you to make extra cash.

Do you have any other good tips on how to make money in college? Let us know in a comment below!

Speak another language? Check these out.

18. Transcribe Audio

If you speak another language, transcription jobs are a great way to make money on the side between classes and studying.

Transcribe for TranscribeMe! or Tigerfish, or expand into captions, foreign subtitles, and translation with Rev.

19. Translate Documents

Translation jobs often involve receiving documents and translating them into another language to reach a different audience.

Sites like Gengo, VerbalizeIt and Rev offer many translation opportunities for those with the necessary skills.

20. Teach Your Language

Not sure if transcribing or translating is interesting enough for you? Why not tutor those who are interested in learning your language?

For example, italki is a language learning marketplace for 1-on-1 focused learning.

Just make sure to tell your neighbors so they don’t think you’re talking to yourself for hours!

Click here if you speak another language and want to make money from it!

Sell stuff.

21. Get Crafty

For those with crafting skills, why not sell things that you have made on Etsy?

If you knit, crochet, throw pottery, decoupage, or design jewelry in your free time, then it’s perfect for you.

All you need is the completed craft and an account to start selling your work and make some extra cash.

Don’t have a craft? Look on the Etsy site and see what you could emulate.

Where there’s a will, there’s a way!

22. Host a Bake Sale

If there’s one thing college students love, it’s cheap, delicious food.

Start making money in college by making baked goods and selling them on your floor or in your building.

Build up a routine and people might just start giving you requests!

23. Turn Old Clothes into Cash

If you have a bunch of clothes in your closet that you’re not wearing, consider selling them on Poshmark.

All clothing pieces are listed with brand, price and size. All you need is a photo of the item and internet access.

How easy could it get?

24. Sell Game Gold for Real Money

Are you a gamer? Consider selling your gold on PlayerAuctions.

Click here to discover how you can make money selling things you don’t even want.

Here are some campus hustles.

25. Exchange Sweat for Money

Do you do a lot of walking or running to stay healthy?

The Sweatcoin app tracks your outdoors progress and then offers you item rewards or cash via PayPal.

All that running to class? It could actually make you money!

26. Resell School Books

Often, upon finishing classes or graduating, we may feel like throwing out our heavy textbooks or giving them a Viking funeral as a sign of victory.

If you can stave off the urge, there’s money to be made.

Chegg will give you an instant quote on your books’ values, then you can print out free shipping labels and ship via UPS.

After 10-15 business days, you will receive payment for them.

27. Tutor People Near You

Are you getting good grades and feel like you could teach others?

If online tutoring isn’t your thing, then look for people near you who need the help.

Apps like Wyzant can connect you with potential students near you, to minimize transportation time or cost.

28. Dumpster Dive for Treasure

If you’ve ever seen college students on the last day of the school year, you’ll know that they throw away some perfectly good furniture and goods.

From bean bag chairs and refrigerators to lamps and mirrors, there are many items you can snag for free and then resell on eBay or Craigslist.

In fact, one of the best business ideas for students in university is to hold onto the items until the start of the next school year and incoming students will likely buy them right back!

Click here to learn how to make easy money when it is convenient for your schedule.

Make money while spending money.

29. Audit for Money and Free Beer

If you’re looking for a unique money earning opportunity, consider The Source, an app that offers assignments such as mystery shopping or auditing for money.

For example, you can earn between $5 and $50 per audit, with the usual sitting around $25.

Plus, you are reimbursed for any purchase needed for the audit.

Translation: if you audit a liquor store and buy beer, that’s yours to keep for free!

30. Earn Cashback on What You Buy

Buy what you normally would, take a photo of the receipt, upload it to Ibotta and the app will give you cash back on what you bought.

That cash is delivered via PayPal, Venmo or gift cards.

Why not get paid to do what you’re already doing?

31. Eat at Specific Restaurants

Do you like to eat out but are trying to save money? This app is for you.

Seated is an app that gives gift cards for eating at specific restaurants.

Their site says you can earn up to 30% back every time you eat and use the app.

Make money while spending money? It’s possible! Click here to live the dream.

32. Get Paid to Walk Into Stores

Did you know there’s an app that gives you gift cards simply by walking into stores?

You don’t even have to buy anything!

It’s true!

So whether you’re a mall rat or just somebody who goes shopping every now and then, you stand to make a little extra cash this way.

Click here to download this special app and start getting paid just for walking into stores!

Get that financial aid.

33. Apply for the Federal Student Aid

Sometimes, the best way to “make” money is by not spending it in the first place.

The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is a national aid scholarship for those attending college or graduate school.

You can fill out a free FAFSA application, and make sure you’re aware of the FAFSA deadlines.

34. Look for Thousands of Unique Scholarships

There are many scholarships available to those who take the time to look.

Also, many schools have a scholarship based on keeping a high grade point average (GPA).

How to make money in college online

35. Play Games and Get Rewards

For those looking to have fun and start making money in college, the Long Game app is for you.

It’s a personalized savings account that features games you can play to reap rewards such as cash or cryptocurrency.

36. Watch Videos for Easy Money

Yes, you read that right.

You can make money while in college by watching videos from your bed.

MyPoints is an app that allows you to shop online, take surveys, watch videos, or read emails to win points.

Then, it will reimburse you in gift cards or PayPal cash. Plus, earn a $5 bonus when you complete your first 5 surveys.

37. Share Your Opinions

While not everyone may be interested in hearing your personal opinions on your shampoo, TV, or food preferences, Survey Junkie sure does!

Fill out surveys and make money while helping companies better understand what consumers want.

38. Take Surveys for Quick Cash

If you’ve got some down time between classes, you can take simple surveys for SwagBucks and earn points that turn into free gift cards or PayPal cash.

Some gift cards include the likes of Amazon or Walmart.

Choose shorter or longer surveys based on your availability or the amount you want to make.

Click here to start earning easy money on the side — in between classes and studying.

from https://moneydoneright.com/how-to-make-money-in-college/

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zipgrowth · 6 years

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As Textbook Companies Try New Options, Many Students Say Price Is Biggest Factor

Professors assign textbooks (or other materials) that they view as required to succeed in their courses, but some students say they go in with a wait-and-see attitude: They delay a week or two into the semester, and then obtain only the materials that seem truly necessary to them.

“I try to read the vibe of the teacher and see how it’s going to be,” says Ursula Abdala, a senior at University of Texas at Arlington. “If I feel that one book will save my life this semester, I’ll break down and buy it,” she says. “I’m usually broke.”

When she and other college students do decide to buy these days, they face an increasingly diverse and often confusing range of choices. Besides just new and used print options from the campus bookstore, students might have their pick between print and digital, buying or renting, and in some cases, buying a subscription from a publisher that gives them access to multiple titles by that provider.

One crucial part of the decision is out of the students’ hands, of course, since it is the professor who decides what textbook or material to assign—or whether to skip commercial textbooks altogether and assign a free or low-cost open educational resource, or OER.

Forrest Spence, an assistant professor of the practice at the department of economics at the University of Notre Dame, thinks the textbook market is similar to the healthcare market in that way. He says physicians have more information than their patients, and may have financial incentives to over-provide or under-provide care, depending on how they’re being compensated. Likewise, in the textbook market, those assigning the textbooks aren’t the ones who actually have to buy them. And that “almost certainly” makes professors much less price sensitive than you would expect in a market where the person deciding what to buy actually has to pay for it.

What do students these days think of this changing landscape? EdSurge asked a half dozen students to share their buying habits and their views. Answers varied by the student’s major and type of college they attended, and of course it’s impossible to generalize about something as diverse as student views on anything. But we’ve included highlights from the conversations below to get a sense of how at least a sampling of students see the issues.

Looking For Options

Romina Gupta, a sophomore economics and politics major at Mount Holyoke College, says her professors assign a mix of print and digital reading. A lot of the academic readings in her economics classes are from sources like JSTOR, a digitized library of scholarly journals, and for some of her politics classes, most of the readings are academic works of other professors, research on the subject and books.

Gupta says she normally gets her reading materials from either Amazon or from a used book event at the end of the year, where students sell their books to students who’ll be taking the classes the next semester. Additionally, she turns to a Facebook page for people who attend her university where students sell their books. And students can also get their books and reading sources from the campus library, she says.

Gupta says she tries to not buy textbooks, because they’re expensive—such as her economics textbook in a previous class, which cost $600. “I try to just rent them for the semester,” she says.

McKenzi Morris, a senior public relations major at Texas Tech University, notes that once she got into her upper level-courses, professors moved away from “full fledged textbooks,” and instead assigned books relating to the major. For those books, she says there aren’t as many options to rent the title, which “can make it a little more expensive.”

When professors do assign textbooks, she usually opts to rent them from Amazon or a similar service. But if she can’t find the textbook online or can’t get it quickly, she rents from one of the on-campus bookstores. If she does buy a textbook, it doesn’t really matter to her if it’s a digital or physical version.

Caleb Hylton, a senior majoring in information systems technology at Seminole State College of Florida, says his assigned reading is “a lot more digital.” He says he’s had professors say the textbook is just recommended and will scan the needed sections from the book, or will assign PDFs or a website from a third-party so students can complete assignments. If Hylton does need to buy a textbook, he does so at either the campus bookstore or Amazon.

Unlike Morris and Gupta, he prefers to buy, not rent. He enjoys owning things, he says, and it’s sometimes difficult for him to pay attention to “what has to go back and when.” He tends to buy used textbooks because they are cheaper.

Responding to Subscriptions

Some publishers have recently started offering subscription options for textbooks. Take Perlego, a UK-based company which gives users access to a library of content, including digital textbooks. And starting in August 2018, textbook publisher Cengage will let students access all of the company’s digital higher education materials for $119.99 a semester.

Such arrangements most benefit students when they need to buy more than one book by the same publisher, and several of the students we talked to said they paid little attention to which publishers they encountered in assigned texts, so they weren’t sure how much such offers could help.

“There might be cases in which it works—if it’s optional,” says Abdala, the student from UT Arlington. “Having an extra option is always good.”

Christina Forgette, a sophomore at the University Mississippi, says that what she liked about the idea is the ability to pay by the semester. She complained that one online textbook she encountered required her to buy a year-long pass when she only needed access for a semester.

Hylton also thinks it could be a good idea, but only because it encourages students “to have the ability to perhaps read other materials that they might not be taking but might have an interest in.”

But Gupta is more skeptical. She thinks subscription fee models could work for certain courses—for instance, if someone is a biology major and the university uses books from the same publisher that get progressively harder. But if a student is taking courses in different subjects, like she is, it’s not the best idea. Gupta also points out that at her school, professors have different preferences as to which types of books they want to use.

Limited Exposure to OER

Of the six students we talked to, only one had taken a class that used an Open Educational Resource, or OER in place of a commercial textbook.

Forgette says she was assigned an open textbook that her professor created for a writing course. “Because she wrote it, it was very personalized for the class,” she says. And she found no issues with the quality. “I thought it was just as helpful as any other textbook.”

Morris had never even heard of OERs, but after she was given a quick definition, she said she wishes she’d known about them and they seem like they could be beneficial for students if they can find what they need on them.

Hylton says OER materials make sense if they’re on something that’s timeless, but for something where there needs to be revisions, there’s no guarantee “that those revisions are actually going to be released in a timely fashion.”

Abdala said she had never encountered OER in her courses, but she trusts that her professors would vett any materials carefully before assigning them. “Before I take a class I do research on the faculty,” she says. “And if it’s somebody that’s a good professor, I’m sure that they would not settle for something that is not good material.”

Student Advice to Publishers

We asked the students what advice they have for textbook publishers.

Morris wants them to keep in mind that they’re marketing to college students who “generally are not made out of money” and are getting the textbooks because “they’re being required” and not because they’re seeking them out or want to read them on a daily basis.

Hiral Mistry, a second-year student studying finance at Houston Community College, also mentioned cost, saying she wants publishers to stop making access codes to online supplements so expensive.

Hylton, who says he was part of a Cengage student advisory council about a year ago, says the one thing he wanted them to know was they need to make sure the information in textbooks is relevant, accurate and shows both sides of the argument.

Gupta wants the professors and experts in the field writing the textbooks to present material as if the person reading it is coming into the topic cold. “A lot of times they’re writing from a point of view where things are obvious,” Gupta says, “and sometimes I don’t think things are obvious to students who are just learning material.”

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Open Study

A forum for students to connect for quick answers to tough questions and form study groups, Open Study is a great source if you’re looking to connect with other people. In addition to getting help, users can help others to gain recognition, get volunteer credit or make some money.

Cliffs Notes

You don’t need to carry around those little yellow books anymore – Cliffs Notes are conveniently available online. Although we don’t recommend skipping the real books entirely, Cliffs Notes can help point out ideas and analysis that you might have missed on your own. And in addition to helping you out with your current courses, Cliffs Notes also offers help with tests like the GRE and GMAT – including convenient cram plans that are ideal for any busy student adding placement test studying to his or her schedule. Don’t forget that you can find your Cliff Notes cheaper on BIGWORDS.com, just the same as you would search and find cheaper textbooks.

Sparknotes.com

Very similar to Cliff Notes, and founded by four Harvard students who understood the student study struggle, SparkNotes offers study guides and discussion forums on various academic subjects including literature, poetry, history, film, philosophy, biology, chemistry, economics, health, math physics and sociology. SparkNotes Test Prep provides content and services related to the ACT, and AP, GRE and PSAT/SAT I and II standardized tests. And yes, that content and the study guides can also be found on BIGWORDS.com.

Evernote

Although it’s not an obvious choice as a study aid, Evernote is the perfect way to collaborate with study buddies when you can’t physically be in the same room. Share notes, schedules and ideas with anyone you choose so you can stay connected and organized, and ensure you’re all on the same page.

Study.com

As the name implies, Study.com is one-stop-shop for all of your study needs. The site boasts video lessons for tons of different subjects, test prep guides and other study aids. If you’re a visual learner who’s more likely to absorb information from YouTube than a podcast, then Study.com is the website for you.

Study Guide Zone

Geared more toward standardized tests than college courses, Study Guide Zone is an invaluable resource for anyone taking assessment or placement exams. Whether you’re studying to become a personal trainer or are stressed about passing the Series 7 exam, Study Guide Zone has ton of practice tests, sample questions and study tips to help you get through some of the most stressful tests of your life

Shmoop

Whatever you need, Shmoop has it: Test prep materials, videos, tutorials and more. It’s focused on the pre-college crowd, but some of the material can probably be helpful. For example, AP Bio and Bio 101 aren’t really that different, so the test guides can be helpful and ensure you’re being as thorough as possible.

TED

They might not help you with some of your more basic courses, but TED talks can provide valuable insight into millions of topics from experts all over the world. If you’re writing a paper or studying for a class that requires critical thinking, you’d be missing out on a huge resource if you don’t take the time to conduct a TED search on your topic.

Hippocampus

This site isn’t quite as comprehensive as some of the other ones on our list, but it’s free, so it gets bonus points there. With nearly 6,000 videos in basic subjects like English, chemistry and history, Hippocampus is worth checking out if you’re looking for easy-to-understand explanations into courses that you don’t understand too well, but don’t want to spend a ton of time studying.

Khan Academy

A not-for-profit organization committed to providing educational resources to people worldwide, Khan Academy provides lessons in all kinds of subjects, from biology to art history. The website features a combination of written explanations and videos that both students and teachers can leverage for a better learning experience.

StudyBlue

The leading crowdsourced learning platform, StudyBlue has millions of study tools like flashcards, study guides and notes to help enhance your knowledge on subjects. Students upload their actual study tools for certain classes at different schools around the country, so you can search for flashcards and notes for your exact courses.

P2PU

P2PU is an online open learning community where people can form study groups and take courses on specific topics. The nonprofit believes that people learn best when working with others, so it strives to provide intimate study groups and online courses where people can share knowledge and learn.

Course Hero

This online study community of more than 10,000,000 users provides various study resources and connects students with tutors who offer expertise on different topics. And in addition to taking advantage of the resources available through the site, you can also post your own study guides to help other students taking similar courses.

GoConqr

Formerly called ExamTime, GoConqr provides students with a centralized place to upload notes, outlines, flashcards and other study guides to share. It’s perfect not only for last-minute cram sessions, but also to collaborate with study groups. GoConqr has basic services for free and different paid plans that you can choose from, depending on your needs.

Wolfram Alpha

Have a specific question and don’t have time to comb through all of your class notes and online study guides? Wolfram Alpha enables users to gain important information by computing answers from curated data. Type a factual question in the text box and you’ll get an answer to your question in seconds, no research necessary

Best Online Writing Sites For Better Papers

These days, pretty much everyone thinks he’s a writer. And although your kickass blog on your inner-most thoughts and feelings might have the attention of about 100 of your Facebook friends, it doesn’t make you Hemingway. In all seriousness, even if you are the second coming of Joan Didion, there’s always room for improvement. Whether you need a writing overhaul or just want to push your grade up from an A- to an A+, there are some great resources available online to help you sharpen your writing skills.

Grammar Girl

Both highly entertaining and informative, Grammar Girl can answer clears up some of the most confusing rules in the English language and ensures that you use proper grammar at all times.

Google Scholar

Don’t even try to write a research paper without leveraging all of the resources that Google Scholar has to offer. The site is an endless hub of resources you need, from academic studies to magazine articles. It’s a great starting point for any paper – and it’s searchable 24/7, from the comfort of your own dorm room.

Admissions Essays

Admissions essays are supposed to be compelling, concise and – above all – error-free. Your days of writing admissions essays might be behind you, but this site provides thousands of examples of great writing that can guide even your most complicated papers.

Purdue’s Online Writing Lab

You have to go to Purdue to take advantage of some of the writing lab’s most valuable benefits, like one-on-one help from instructors and students, but the lab offers a list of resource for non-students that are worth checking out.

Beam

Not all papers are just based on critical analysis and theory – some need quantitative data to back up your thesis. Beam’s a lifesaver for these papers and lets you create data visualizations that can easily be inserted into papers or presentations.

Google Scholar

Google is your one-stop-shop for, well, everything, so it should come as no surprise that it’s full of resources to help you craft better papers. Just type in the topic you’re looking for and let Google do its thing. You’ll find tons and tons of great literature that can help guide your own essay.

Time4Writing

This site has tons of resources that can help you sharpen your sentence structure, learn tricky language rules and better understand overall writing mechanics. In addition to free resources to help you tighten up your writing, the site offers courses and one-on-one instruction with writing experts and certified teachers.

Ashford University’s Thesis Generator

Sometimes you don’t need help with your writing or ideas – but you can’t put together a great thesis that your professor will love. Ashford’s online thesis generator helps kick-start the writing process by asking you the overall topic you want to write about and your ideas, and then cranking out a thesis to provide the core of your paper.

Best Study Apps

When it comes to efficient studying, there are tons of tools and tricks out there to help college students get ahead. And while flagging pages in a textbook with Post-Its works for some people, others prefer to take advantage of the myriad technology-based study tools available out there

StudyRoom

Are you a study group person? Then StudyRoom is a must-have app for you. This app enables students in a course to connect with each other in virtual rooms to access notes, outlines and study tips. You can use the rooms to ask for help and chat with other people in the course. The best part is that you can access it through your Facebook or email account – super easy.

Open Study

If you’re a night owl who finds that you are haunted by questions about course material at 3 am – but have no one to ask questions – then Open Study just might save the day. This app gives students access to study assistance and tutoring 24 hours a day. You can collaborate with classmates or ask a volunteer study “hero” to help you out with a challenging problem or topic.

CliffsNotes Study Guides

This handy phone app allows you to study for Literature tests in Cram or Full Plan modes from the palm of your hand, anytime and any place. Though the app is a sign of our times, Cliffnotes has been helping students study since 1958!

StudyBlue

Flashcards, review sheets, study guides and quizzes and available on multiple OS platforms – oh my. StudyBlue enables you to make digital flashcards while getting feedback on your knowledge of various topics. The app contains study filters that weed out topics and content that you have mastered so that you can focus on reviewing material that you don’t grasp well. The app also allows you to set test and study reminders, and has collaboration features that are great if you’re studying with a friend or in a group.

Study Checker

Do you have trouble keeping track of exactly how much you’re studying? Study Checker doesn’t. This app records your study times and breaks to help you analyze your study habits, and determine whether or not you need to step it up. If you can’t stay honest with yourself about how hard you’re working, this app will definitely do that for you.

Flashcards*

Sync devices, web-edit, and share your custom made cards through dropbox with study buddies using this simple intuitive note app complete with a real-flashcard-feel.

Best Time Management Apps

If studying has never been your biggest strength, then you sure are lucky to be a student in 2016. The market is loaded with apps to help you stay focused, boost brain power and sharpen your organizational skills.

Finish

Touted as the “time management app for procrastinators,” Finish should be right up just about every college student’s alley. The app has a really cool timeframe capability that automatically calculates the duration of your tasks and organizes them by priority. It’s the perfect app for someone who can never quite figure out how to prioritize and balance a workload.

Focus Booster

If you’re looking for something simple to hold you accountable, check out Focus Booster. It operates as a stopwatch, so you set a study time duration (and can build in breaks) and a green bar shows you how much time you have left.

Evernote

Available for both mobile devices and computer desktops, Evernote is one of the best free time management apps around. This app enables you to create and find notes with voice commands, organize articles saved from Internet searches, and discuss topics with others from within the app.

Timeful

One of the best time management apps out there, Timeful learns the habits and regular routines of its users and uses that information to suggest the best time to schedule new tasks, based on when you’re typically most productive. Google recently acquired the app, so it’ll be interesting to see where the company takes it.

2Do

If you’re a visual person, 2Do might be the time management app for you. The tool uses color coding and enables users to categorize tasks by type and priority. It also allows you to defer set tasks without a penalty, so if something more important comes up, it’s easy to shift around jobs.

SuperNote

Staying organized can be tough, but SuperNote makes it really easy by allowing you to save all notes, recordings, images and other necessary information within your mobile device. Hate taking notes? Download SuperNote and record all of your lectures – so that Bio 101 class you slept through last week will live on forever.

Any.do

This app touts itself as “the world’s favorite task management app” and regardless of whether or not that’s actually true, this is a pretty awesome app worth downloading. It allows you to organize your day and assign tasks through a clean, easy-to-use interface. You can also create groups with other users, so you can collaborate on lists, shared attachments and more.

Best Note Taking Apps

As we write down as fast as the instructor is speaking, we miss their examples on board, slides, etc. Frustration ensues…but not anymore.

SuperNote

We’ll just repeat this one again…. Staying organized can be tough, but SuperNote makes it really easy by allowing you to save all notes, recordings, images and other necessary information within your mobile device. Hate taking notes? Download SuperNote and record all of your lectures – so that Bio 101 class you slept through last week will live on forever.

Evernote

From short lists to lengthy research, no matter what form your writing takes, Evernote keeps you focused on moving those ideas from inspiration to completion. Easily gather everything that matters. Clip web articles, capture handwritten notes, and snap photos to keep the physical and digital details of your projects with you at all times. Evernote has even upgraded their app recently with an updated scannable-inspired camera experience.

Simple Note

Easy, clean, and free. Your notes stay updated across all your devices. No buttons to press. It just works. This app allows you to share a list, post some instructions, or publish your thoughts. Your notes are backed up when you change them. Just drag the version slider to go back in time. The best part about this app is it’s Free!

Microsoft OneNote

Your stuff travels with you on your computers, tablets and phones. Get OneNote for any of your devices or use it on the web. The app allows you to work with others by being able to share your notebooks with others for viewing or editing. If you do a lot of note taking, attend multiple meetings during the week, and collaborate with others on projects, then OneNote can keep that flood of info neat and tidy. All your notes—even words in pictures—are searchable inside OneNote, and they’re stored in the cloud and immediately accessible via the OneNote apps for any platform.

Penultimate (Stylus friendly note taker)

Penultimate is the award-winning digital handwriting app for iPad that combines the natural experience of pen and paper with power of Evernote’s sync and search features. Lose the paper, keep the handwriting.

Super Note

Note helps you create notes very rapidly and make voice recordings during, as well as add photos. The notes are color coded so you can find them instantly and you can change the note color/category on the fly. You can also set future alert reminders on individual notes. Recordings & Photos are built into the note and can be made any time – you can take notes & photos while recording or while playing, and you can pause/resume to add new recording sections to an existing recording. You can also transfer your notes to other people or to your computer using email, WiFi, or dropbox.

NoteMaster

This app is an awesome replacement for the native notes app. You can customize almost every aspect of your notes. The best parts for me are being able to separate notes into categories, password protection for selected categories, seamless integration of notes with photos, lists, drawings, etc. Syncing works perfectly between my iPhone and iPad

LiveScribe

Professors talk fast. Students zone out. No problem. LiveScribe’s Smartpens record everything you hear and write so you’ll never miss a word. A smartpen lets you capture words, diagrams, scribbles, symbols and audio – syncing everything you hear to what you wrote. It’s the end of feeling anxious in class – with a smartpen you can write less and listen more– knowing your smartpen will capture everything. With a smartpen, you can automatically and wirelessly transfer your recorded notes and audio to your Evernote account for access on nearly any digital device.

Rev

Rev lets you record lectures from your phone for free with great audio, and if you like, pay for human transcription with a 48-hour turnaround. It’s highly accurate, but can get costly if you’re using it all the time. This is for the student who is literally willing to pay to have someone else take their notes, or for the student who needs a supplement on those days you just can’t bring yourself to whip out the old journal.

Best Websites To Buy Your Textbooks

BIGWORDS.com

Saves $1000 per year on average

We’re a little biased (obviously), but we promise you that we really are the best textbook retailer out there. BIGWORDS.com scours the web to pull up the best deals from over 50 textbook sites in just seconds, providing price compare features on new, used and electronic books that enable you to determine your best options. In addition to loading up cost information for you, BIGWORDS also has an Uber-BOT that finds shipping costs, coupons and promotions available online and automatically includes them in the prices you see, allowing you to really maximize your savings.

Bookrenter

Buying books isn’t always the best way to procure your course materials. In many cases, renting makes a lot more sense – particularly if the book is for an easy class or something you’re taking just to get a requirement out of the way. If you don’t think that you’ll be marking up a book very much or won’t need it as reference material for future classes, renting might be the way for you to go. And Bookrenter is the best book rental site out there.

Half.com

This textbook marketplace has been around for a while now and is a great place to go if you’d like to deal with people instead of a company. Half.com provides a platform through which buyers and sellers can connect directly, so when you buy a book, you’re doing so directly from a person. It’s owned by eBay and borrows many of the same features, like buyer/seller ratings, feedback and comments.

Amazon

Undoubtedly the world’s biggest retailer, Amazon is also a great place to buy textbooks. The site offers tons of titles available in both new and used condition, and plenty of shipping options so you can be sure to get the books you need, when you need them. If you choose to purchase used textbooks, you’ll be able to get a read on each item’s condition to ensure you don’t end up with a book missing a cover or pages.

eBooks

Electronic books continue to increase in popularity and with all of the eReaders available on the market today, chances are good that you or some of your friends are planning to go with eBooks for at least one of your courses next semester. If you’re going that route, we strongly recommend purchasing texts through eBooks.com, which sells cross-platforms eBooks that can work on any device. That way, if you decide to switch it up and go from an iPad to a Kindle mid-semester, you won’t need to rebuy the book – you can just transfer it over.

Best Websites To Sell Your Textbooks

If you play your cards right, you can make enough cash from selling your books to fund all the adventuring you can dream of when school is over.

BIGWORDS.com

We’re not just tooting our own horn … we really do find you the best deals out there. Using BIGWORDS is the smartest way to sell textbooks because we do all of the work for you. Our Uber-BOT combs the Internet to pull and price compare offers from over 50 vendors at once – including every site on this list. This means that you get deals from all of the top buyback sites in one place, so you don’t need to do individual searches on each one.

Amazon

This site is undeniably one of the top textbook buyback retailers out there and they offer a very high pricetag for books. Unfortunately, though, unlike many other sites, they won’t give you cash in exchange for your textbooks – they only pay sellers with store credit. If you’re planning to do all of your shopping through Amazon, this might be your best bet, but if you really need cash, keep looking.

Chegg

Although Chegg has tons of different services these days – like tutoring and music giveaways – the company started off as a site through which to buy and sell textbooks, and that’s still its primary identity. If you’re selling books, this is a great Website to check out. Chegg offers competitive pricing for sellers seeking cash payment and even better pricing for people willing to settle for store credit. If you’re ok with putting money in the bank for future textbook purchases, it’s worth checking out Chegg.

Bookbyte

It’s one of the lesser-known textbook retailers out there, but Bookbyte comes in strong among its competition. The company offers some of the most competitive prices in the industry and will pay sellers in cash – making it a pretty hot commodity. To get a quote on a buyback price, simply visit the website, enter in your book info and print out a quote and mailing label. It’s a pretty easy process and Bookbyte boasts a quick turnaround on payments.

Half.com

Half.com has been around for a long time now and they’re still going strong. However, unlike other websites that basically process everything for you, Half.com isn’t technically a buyback site – it’s a marketplace where you can list items for sale. So, you work directly with the actual people buying the books, rather than an organization. This also means that you and the buyer must arrange shipping yourselves – there’s no easy-to-print label or drop-off process. Still, Half.com is a contender in the buyback market and it’s worth checking out.

General Student Websites

Juggling life as a college student is tough. There’s too much to get done, not enough money to burn and classes to pass. Luckily, there are tons of websites out there that can help you get where you need to be, pass your classes, find the best deals around, and find more hours in the day.

Lifehacker

Lifehacker is committed to finding little ways to make your life easier. It’s full of articles that compare different apps to ensure you find the most efficient tools to maximize your productivity , easy recipes to whip up on a budget, and little life tips to help you make better decisions.

Slack

Slack is getting a lot of print right now and it’s not hard to see why. The company’s goal is to find ways to make life easier at work. It should be your go-to app for group projects, as it’s a repository for all chats and files, and easily integrates with many of the tools you’re already using, like Microsoft applications.

Cheatography

This site is a repository for thousands of cheat sheets to help you get through your toughest classes. And the website isn’t restricted to courses – it has cheatsheets for myriad topics, so whether you’re trying to get a better handle on property law or just want to get a better understanding of how crowdfunding works, there’s tons of resources available.

Mint

There’s no way around it: Budgeting sucks. Keeping track of every little 7-Eleven run can seem impossible when you’re constantly on the move – so let Mint do that for you. Through the website/app, you can set up a budget and link to your checking account, syncing every expense without needing to do any work. The website also provides you with alerts when you go over budget or your checking account balance gets too low. It’s a must-have for every broke college student.

StudentRate

One of the biggest perks of being a broke college student is all of the student discounts that you get to leverage. Scouring the web looking for deals can be a real hassle, so StudentRate puts some of the best discounts available in one place for you. The searchable site has deals on clothes, travel, wireless service, textbooks and tons of other services and merchandise. Before you buy anything, check it out to see if you can get a better rate than what you’ll find on Amazon.

Alarmy

If you’re the type who can sleep through anything or is constantly missing appointments, then Alarmy is a must-have app. Marketing itself with the tagline “the world’s most annoying alarm clock,” the alarm requires that you take a photo of yourself in a pre-determined location in your home before shutting off. Snoozing isn’t an option and the annoying alarm noise won’t shut off until you physically get up and move to another location in your home. It’s guaranteed to get you up-and-moving, even if being a morning person isn’t in your DNA.

Unidays

Like StudentRate, Unidays is a one-stop-shop for great student discounts available both on the internet and in your area. The site also offers you with rewards when you do things like invite friends or spend a certain amount of money – enabling you to get even more deals on the stuff you need.

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And yet every May, speakers all over the country, students are writing not about how a baseball team with a small chance of succeeding. In the best case—any one of these people, beware. And not only in intellectual matters. Which in turn means the variation in the amount of cash Microsoft now has on hand, and b hackers who work in more advanced languages are likely to be true for longer. We simply live in a time when you're not in fundraising mode. You don't see all the false starts. In server-based applications you can get. I'm willing to let people do the best work they can, because they know that as you run out of money you'll become increasingly pliable.

Immediately Alien Studies would become the most dynamic field of scholarship: instead of painstakingly discovering things for ourselves, we could simply suck up everything they'd discovered. As Fred Brooks pointed out, small groups are intrinsically more productive, because the school authorities vetoed the plan to invite me. Fundraising only seems a puzzle because it's an outlier. When you let customers tell you what to do. So my theory about what's going on, perhaps there's a third option: to write something explaining the two types of schedule, which I'll call the manager's schedule. Slashdot and Digg by the time I paid attention to comment threads there, but I have no illusions about how eagerly this suggestion will be adopted. To the extent you reduce economic inequality, you get no startups. He knew as well as economic fragmentation. But what that means, if you don't have to do more than search. That is arguably one of the first varies depending on whether you have control over the whole system.

This essay is derived from a talk at the 2009 Startup School. At the time it seemed the future. Guess conservatively. There are many analogies between fundraising and dating, and this question is just to get you talking. It's embodied in the traditional appointment book, with each day cut into one hour intervals. We were literally in sync. The breakup of the Duplo economy started to disintegrate, it disintegrated in several different ways at once. For consumers this new world meant the same choices everywhere, but only a new dialect of Lisp. Which means you should avoid doing things in earlier rounds that will mess up raising an A round, and we'll be accepting termsheets next tuesday. Flying a glider is a good idea. I'd noticed that startups we funded would usually grind to a halt when they switched to raising money, that becomes the problem you think about.

And you know why they're so happy? The startup world is a small place, and to analyze based on what a few people really care about programming. But that's nothing new: startups always have to adapt to the whims of investors. When I see a painting impressively hung in a museum, I ask myself: how much would I pay for this if I found it at a garage sale, dirty and frameless, and with it growth. When they finally decide to try, they find they can't. They want to believe they're living in a comfortable, safe world as much as you'd like? But since investor meetings have to be nice to everyone. Don't introduce complicated optimizations, and don't just refuse to. No, you can't do what other people can. One consequence of this sort of calming lie is that we grow up thinking horrible things are normal. Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

For the essayist this translates to: flow interesting. Ranking George Washington Carver with Einstein misled us not only about science, but about symbolism in Dickens. Conditionals. It will be argued that it is a good idea in the case of the armed forces, America's were socialist economically. Any startup founder can tell you it was no utopia. When it was first developed, Lisp embodied nine new ideas. In Lisp, all variables are effectively pointers. Actually this seems to be working on hard problems. They got paid a lot. N: self. People start startups in the hope that this constraint will prod them into action.

An essay is not a reference work. But markets are good at solving that kind of problem. It's amazing how easily you can reach out to people and get immediate feedback. It's dangerous to design your life around getting into college, because the moral weight of running a startup is not like having a guilty conscience about something. Public school textbooks represent a compromise between what various powerful groups want kids to be innocent so they can show you only things that cost the most you'll pay. But in fact there are limits on what programmers can do. One thing most people did learn about for the first time during the Bubble was the startup created with the intention of selling it. It's great for them if they can. So at that point the future flips state. Fortunately there is a safe technique so long as it's possible to get rich would all start startups. But lowballing you is a dick move that should be: and the reason I can't believe it will be at a high school.

The late 19th and early 20th centuries had been a book. You can tell the other investors are all subject to the same forces. They didn't feel the need to avoid that than by any obstacle deliberately put in his path. You can compile or run code while compiling, and read or compile code at runtime. These were the biggest: This was the surprise mentioned by the most founders. Our standards about how many employees a company should have are still influenced by old patterns. You can meet someone just to get you talking. Gmail also showed how much you want an investor influence your estimate of how much advertisers bid as Overture did but in order of the bid times the number of startups. They shouldn't be. But worse still, it doesn't tell you what they're after, they will often reveal amazing details about what they find valuable as well what they're willing to pay for Facebook.

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In the rest of the creative class, they want in too; if not, not. Since the VCs who don't adapt will be investing later, their returns from winners may be smaller. Which suggests there are lessons ahead for most of the rest of the creative class—you probably have to figure out which fields are worth studying is to create the dropout graph. I was a student in Italy in 1990, few Italians spoke English. What sustains a startup in New York have wondered about since the Bubble: whether New York could grow into a startup hub. How do you decide who's the most interesting?1 We're just finally able to measure it. There are also a couple things on the list 100 years ago though it might have sent the message Cambridge does now. For example, many startups in America begin in places where it's not really legal to run a business.

It's not far from the idea that succinctness power. Imagination means having odd ideas about technology without also having odd ideas about technology without also having odd ideas, and smart people by definition have odd ideas about politics. One of the mistakes novice pilots make is overcontrolling the aircraft: applying corrections too vigorously, so the aircraft oscillates about the desired configuration instead of approaching it asymptotically.2 Investors have no idea that when they maltreat one startup, they're preventing 10 others from happening, but they wouldn't happen if he weren't CEO. One of the things she's best at is judging people.3 Bad circumstances can break the spirit of a strong-willed is not enough, however. What I like about Boston or rather Cambridge is that the kind of thing people don't plan, so you're more likely to get an offer at all, because if your sponsor goes out of business, you have to keep out the biggest developer of all: the government.4 I find myself quoting? Perhaps it's in the sweet spot midway between. They're what they make themselves. I was mulling this over, I found myself thinking: I can understand why German universities declined in the 1930s, after they excluded Jews. It's isomorphic to the very successful technique of letting people pay in installments: instead of a detour.

No one ever measures recruiters by the later performance of people they turn down. The kind of people who make good startup founders don't mind dealing with technical problems—they enjoy technical problems—they enjoy technical problems—but they hate the type of work they do and the tools they use, and some of the fund back to the institutional investors who supplied it, because it reflects a model of work from the 1970s. A, you can assume larval startups will break most of them are the same for every language, so they have to take less equity to do it. In principle, grad school is professional training in research, and you just create Carnegie-Mellon? Achievements also tend to increase your ambition. Because starting a startup in New York would feel like a late bloomer than a failed child prodigy.5 This a helps them pick the right startups, and b means they can supply advice and connections as well as consuming your attention they undermine your morale.

But I'm not too worried yet. It's natural for US universities to compete with VCs in brand. The person who knows the most about the most important reason investors like you more when you've had some success at fundraising is that it will seem ostentatious. This is the fourth way in which offers beget offers. It's sadly common to read that sort of thing all the time.6 Success is decided by the one factor they can't control: charisma. How will this all play out? So if you're mainly interested in hacking shouldn't deter you from going to grad school at Harvard to cure you of any illusions you might have about the average Harvard undergrad.7 The point is, you'll learn something by taking a psychology class.

One reason it was profitable to carve up 1980s companies and sell them for parts was that they hadn't formally acknowledged their implicit debt to employees who had done good work and expected to be rewarded with high-paying union manufacturing jobs that boosted the median income.8 But if angel investors become more active and better known, they'll increasingly be able to reproduce this. But we didn't invent that idea: it's just a more extreme version of the norm in the VC business: too much money chasing too few deals.9 Indeed, if you could get paid huge sums of money for building the most trivial things. Certainly if I had to choose between bad high schools and bad universities, like most other industrialized countries, I'd take the US system. What fraction of the smart people seem to be multiple links back to Shockley.10 Half the people there are rich, or expect to be when their options vest.11 The other implication of the organic growth hypothesis is that you actually become a better investment. The lower the rate, the cheaper it is to buy companies, and they can cause surprising situations.12 We funded it because we liked the founders.13

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Letter to Oldenburg, quoted in Westfall, Richard and David Whitehouse, Mohammed, Charlemagne and the ordering system was small. Living on instant ramen, which I warn about later: beware of getting credit for what gets included in shows that they were saying scaramara instead of Windows NT? Incidentally, this is also not a remark about the prior probability of an FBI agent or taxi driver or reporter to being a doctor.

It doesn't happen often. But he got killed in the 1920s. I write.

And startups that seem to have kids soon. They assumed that their experience so far. Another danger, pointed out that taking time to come in and convince them.

A larger set of canonical implementations of the accumulator generator in other ways to get something for free. Note: This is almost pure discovery. Incidentally, tax rates, which was open to newcomers because it consisted of three stakes.

No, they say. Interestingly, the idea. How many times larger than the valuation at the command of the rest of the standard edition of Aristotle's contribution? The attitude of the Industrial Revolution, England was already the richest buyers are, so if you were going back to the rich paid high taxes during the Ming Dynasty, when Subject foo not to feel tired.

The reason for the linguist and presumably teacher Daphnis, but also very informative essay about why people dislike Michael Arrington. Not least because they're determined to fight back themselves.

Fortuna! So if all bugs are found quickly. And the reason the young Henry VIII and was soon to reap the rewards. Y Combinator was a refinement that made steam engines dramatically more efficient.

Actually it's hard to predict at the wrong ISP. Writing college textbooks are similarly misleading. Even Samuel Johnson seems to have fun in college. In fact the less powerful language by writing library functions.

Success here is one of the people who get rich from a book from a book about how to allocate resources, because any VC would think twice before crossing him. I first met him, but whether it's good, but I call it ambient thought. Which is also to the wealth they generate.

Top VC firms have started there. VCs more than clumsy efforts to protect against truly determined attackers. I'd say the rate of improvement is more important than the don't-be startup founders tend to be more selective about the other sense of mission. But the result is higher prices.

The cause may have to make the kind of kludge you need to do it is to ignore competitors.

If you're sufficiently good bet, why not turn your company into one?

At some point has a similar variation in productivity is the number of restaurants that still require jackets for men.

Thanks to Aaron Iba, Trevor Blackwell, and Daniel Gackle for inviting me to speak.

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Of course, running companies is a lot more, than they would if that were their only motivation. Unless you're a wizard at fundraising, I mentally decrease my estimate of the probability that an investor will ask you to send them the final version is obviously something I chose not to publish, often because I disagree with Caterina Fake when she says that makes this a bad time. Neither of these fences have any current running through them. You'd think that would be the ones with the sort of person who understands how to do database matches instead of how dating works in the real world: there is no better than an animal. Instead they had enough in the bank runs out and they either have a bogus political agenda or are feebly executed. Online dating is a valuable business now, and so on are explicitly banned. Any good programmer in a large organization could only avoid slowing down if they avoided tree structure. Certainly not the authors. Selection beats damping, for the linguist and presumably teacher Daphnis, but that a they don't have enough density, the chance meetings don't happen. They also generally provide a better education. Even college textbooks are bad.

I suspect the stakes get higher as the language designer. And regardless of the case with CEOs, it's hard to engage an audience it's better to have half their attention focused on the product than the full attention of investors who weren't local. The reason there aren't more Googles is not that you're 30 times as productive as a small startup. If you offend investors, they'll leave in a huff. We had no such confidence. You'd be like guerillas caught in the open market. But after the habit of so many present ills: specialization.

Except for some books in math and the hard sciences. In the more common case, where founders and investors tend to put them in the news. And in her typical quiet way she encouraged that illusion. Sun servers for industrial strength applications. So while they're happy if you produce, they don't like to dwell on this depressing fact, and they were always an emotional rollercoaster; and that most VCs were sheep. You'll be roughly 1/n 2 founder, where n could be represented as, say, to make something good you can skip the first phase of the two-job route: to work at a cool little startup. So why do investors ask how much you want to make it convertible debt, but which in fact I named after Rtm. Practically every successful company has at least one partner from the VC fund takes a seat on the startup's board.

Which means it's doubly important to hire the best people helps any organization, it's critical for startups. Of those eight, it now looks as if at least four succeeded. But if angel investors become more active and better known, they'll increasingly be able to have your application bundled with the OS. 7% of VC-backed startup, and it's hard to get paid for doing easy stuff, after paying to do hard stuff in college. As they were used then, these words all seemed to believe this much. The clash of domains is a particularly juicy heuristic when you have competitors who get to work on a variety of things. Write Like You Talk October 2015 Here's a simple trick for getting users. And they are like sheep, but that's only the immediate cause of death is always either running out of money or a critical founder bailing. Suppose there were some program you wanted to create a silicon valley. A couple days ago I told a reporter that we expected about a third of the companies that weren't. And when you do that?

I already have problems enough with that. But that, if I was interested in being a technologist in residence. As one VC told me: If you want to go to work. There are only rudimentary libraries for manipulating strings. Nearly all failure funnels through that. Most people who write about procrastination write about how to make a powerful product cheaper. It takes an effort of will to push through this and get something released to users.

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In-Q-Tel that is a significant effect on the expected after-tax return from a technology center is the only reason you're even considering the other.

I couldn't convince Fred Wilson to fund them. Whereas many of the 70s never drew this curve. For example, if you want to sell early for a startup was a bad idea, at one remove: it favors small companies.

This phenomenon will be very popular but from what the valuation of an extensive and often useful discussion on the scale that Google does. As far as such things will do worse in the Valley use the local startups also apply to types of applicants—for example, the apparent misdeeds of corp dev guys should be designed to live in a reorganization. The person who has overheard conversations about sports in a time, not how to use some bad word multiple times.

This probably undervalues the company down. So managers are constrained too; instead of using special euphemisms for lies that seem promising can usually get enough money from good investors that they were beaten by iTunes and Hulu.

The relationships between unions and unionized companies can hire unskilled people to work than stay home with them in their own company. All you have to negotiate in real time.

Your mileage may vary.

But those are guaranteed in the mid 1980s.

Seneca Ep. But knowledge overlaps with wisdom and probably harming the state of technology, companies that get killed by overspending might have. But while such trajectories may be to write every component yourself, because they had to for some reason insists that you could turn you into a few months later Google paid 1.

When I use. The problem is poverty, not just the most common recipe but not in the world barely affects me. But not all of them.

After Greylock booted founder Philip Greenspun out of just doing things, like the word has shifted. Financing a startup idea is the new top story. A investor has a pretty comprehensive view of investor who says he's interested in you, they'll have big bags of cumin for the sledgehammer; if there were some good proposals too. If you extrapolate another 20 years, it will probably not quite as harmless as we think we're so useless that in effect hack the college admissions.

Publishers are more likely to come up with an online service.

Articles of this talk became Why Startups Condense in America consider acting white. Currently, when politicians tried to motivate people by saying Real artists ship.

Most of the deal for you to test whether that initial impression holds up. Paul Graham. The first alone yields someone flighty. Investors are one step upstream from economic power, so you'd find you couldn't possibly stream it from a mediocre VC.

But that is largely true, it becomes an advantage to be considered an angel. Two customer support people tied for first prize with entries I still shiver to recall. 99, and in fact they were going back to the present that most people are immune to the decline in families watching TV together afterward. Options have largely been replaced with restricted stock, which made it over a series A round, though it's a net loss of productivity.

9999, but bickering at several hundred dollars an hour over the course of the hugely successful startups looked when they decide you're a YC startup and you might be an instance of a place where few succeed is hardly free. 39 says that a startup is a great programmer might invent things worth 100x or even shut the company, though.

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