comin' 4 yo memes

Definitely absolutely Not satire (Satire)

[kanyeforpresidents]

Student Help Masterpost

Money + Budget:

college investor website

budgeting website

scholarships masterpost

learn how to make easy money online

student loan calculator

what to buy each month of the year

how to coupon

what to do when you can’t pay your bills

is your cell phone bill too high?

how to save money

how to do taxes

discounts your student id can get you

pay off your student loans

places that give student discounts

7 money tips for college students

how to survive college on a budget

save your money on cords

how to balance a checkbook

Study:

huge list of tips for school

how to I study?

tips

study tips (2, 3, 4)

study techniques

how to get straight a’s

how to study

Simple Wikipedia

15 steps to success

Triaging Your Assignments

“Academic Disaster Insurance”

The “Secret” to Doing Well in School

What NOT To Do When Studying

How to Underline/Highlight Effectively

Reading Review, Highlighting, and Underlining

Seven days study plan

Solving Problems vs. Practicing Them

the basics of efficient studying

how to review in less time

study skills assessment

how to pull an all-nighter effectively

get back on track after missing school

Textbooks:

online textbooks; mostly science and math

cookbooks to textbooks

business textbooks

reddit has some good textbook resources

bookboon

online math books

ebookee

freebookspot

free-eBooks

getfreebooks

bookfinder

oerconsortium

project gutenburg

booksee

bookzz

textbook tips

cheap textbooks l x l x l x l

Travel:

check this website before booking your seat

student travel site

ultimate packing list

traveling for cheap

rate my study abroad

travel accessories

the best way to pack a suitcase

how to read a map

how to apply for a passport

travel budget calculator

should you travel abroad?

[anticollegeboardpropaganda]

Your best choice on anything you don't know is answer choice D. If 4 options, C is also good. If 5 options, E is also good.

[cptsdstudyblr]

Chrome extensions I actually use as a mentally ill university student

Making websites easier to digest:

Dark Reader - Changes any webpage to dark mode.

Mercury Reader - Simplifies the layout of any webpage to eliminate distractions and irritating formatting.

Podcastle AI - Turns any article into a podcast. This is a lifesaver for being able to process what I’m reading, to be honest.

Spelling/grammar:

LanguageTool - Spelling and grammar check for those of us who regularly type in more than one language.

Grammarly - Spelling and grammar check for those of us who only type in English. Can be used with LanguageTool installed, which is what I do.

Google Dictionary - Define any word on the webpage with a double-click.

Google Translate - Translate an entire webpage or even just a short segment.

Misc:

AdGuard Adblocker - After trying quite a few adblocker options, this is the one I find the best.

The Great Suspender - Automatically suspend inactive tabs to help with performance. <- as an edit, I don’t believe this is available anymore

Honey - Try coupon codes automatically to save money on online purchases.

Built-in Chrome tab grouping - Group your tabs to keep organized and minimize distracting clutter.

[ms-demeanor]

bad news, professor, the sixty dollar book of short stories and poems that you "edited" for our english 101 class is out of stock from the school bookstore, the included texts are all available online, and I have constructed a google doc to share with the class.

Kids, if you are in an English 101 class and you have a textbook that costs more than twenty bucks you should check your syllabus and see if the assigned readings are available online.

English 101 professors fucking love stories that were originally published in the New Yorker or poems that are 100 years old.

Are you taking an English 101 class during the fall semester? I give it an 80% probability of including an Edgar Allan Poe short story and you DO NOT PAY for Edgar Allan Poe short stories you go to Gutenberg.org and you read for free. (my class is doing the cask of amontillado and i look forward to memeing with you in october.)

Anyway if you're in an English or Composition class and your professor has assigned the third edition of the Little Seagull handbook this site definitely does not include the entire text at the bottom of the page and you definitely should not save it from there. (i would not recommend trying to download the PDF, tho. Just copy the text.)

[owl-librarian]

Also please, please, please check your college/university’s library! They have the budget you don’t, and mostly do their very best to buy all required textbooks, often including coursepacks. Often you can check out the books for a limited period of time (say a couple hours or a few days) if it’s a required text, OR they may have them electronically for you to download/access.  (or both!)

[ms-demeanor]

VERY MUCH THIS.

If your campus library is currently open and allowing people to check out books, there is a VERY good chance that your required textbook will be available for on-campus loans of a few hours.

What you do is this:

Wait until you have your syllabus

Go to the library and check out the required text and use a private study room

Use the high resolution camera in your pocket (because almost all of us are carrying one these days) to take pictures of every page of the assigned readings.

Organize the photos into files titled with the name of the class and the due date for each reading

Say "fuck you" to the $300, 1200 page Literary Theory book that you just photographed 87 pages of and live your best academic life carefree.

[ms-demeanor]

Also, my dear young friends who are starting college for the first time, I would like to introduce you to the Perdue University Online Writing Lab and its Citation Style Guide.

This is a free online resource that will tell you what the most up-to-date citation style is for MLA, APA, AMA, Chicago Style, and more.

Don't fail your bibliographies, friends.

[ms-demeanor]

I was a lit major and even just getting the paperbacks for a bunch of my classes was sometimes prohibitively expensive so I used to:

A) Read a LOT of Dickens on Gutenberg on the tiny screen of my sidekick

and

B) Copy full texts off of gutenberg and print them eight pages to a sheet (four on each side) on printer paper and staple them together.

Here's a fun thing! You can also get a book on kindle, disconnect your kindle from the internet, read the book, and return the book for a full refund. This works best if it's something you can read in a short time and you don't need the device for anything else while you're reading that book.

[ms-demeanor]

Also Archive.Org has a library. You can search your textbooks and you can borrow them, usually for an hour at a time but you can request a loan for fourteen days.

Sometimes they've only got older editions of textbooks but in a lot of classes that's not going to matter.

So check out your textbooks and screencap relentlessly.

[ms-demeanor]

And if you are, like, morally opposed to piracy or something please keep in mind that photocopying/photographing/screenshotting pages of books in a library is perfectly legal.

Copying the assigned sections of a library book isn't piracy that is literally what libraries are there for, to give people access to books.

[ms-demeanor]

If you want to buy textbooks or there is not a good way for you to get a copy of your textbook don't buy from amazon, look on thriftbooks.com or betterworldbooks.com. Better World Books has free shipping on a lot of stuff and you can get used textbooks from both sites for really good prices

[viciousvales]

this site definitely doesn't allow you to paste the link to any article blocked by a paywall (say, a NYT article) so that you can read it free of charge! that would be illegal and would benefit broke college students too much. it definitely does not do that. promise.

[vixxenfox]

[anticollegeboardpropaganda]

Knock Knock b

[sourpatchst4r]

I just took the psat and im so excited to go home and see all the memes

[anticollegeboardpropaganda]

boo

[mhs-memes]

awful day, good memes

[vixxenfox]

[anticollegeboardpropaganda]

Ok so based on the memes I’m going to assume that the 2020 psat had a cottagecore trans lesbian named october, miku binder thomas jefferson from alexander hamilton, and a slutty bird

[cemeteryraves]

Music industry analysts looking at their sales because of young people

[transition-bait]

I thought of this picture the entire english section

[donohues-moved]

When you revive your language through texting

[natbplease]

college board PLEASE,

[vixxenfox]

[dazesanddoodles]

october is a she/they sapphic

[sunshine-silence]

me, a senior, watching sophomores and juniors making psat memes and therefore violating the contract they signed but are not legally bound to: