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App Watch: Let iPhone Downloads Be Your Campus Guides
11:30AM 3/24/2011
With warm weather around the corner, it's time for many high school students to start touring college campuses and making decisions about their higher education. The process can be overwhelming as students contemplate cost, location and campus life, so here are six apps for under $2 to help find...
Universities moving some professors in with students
10:00AM 11/02/2010
Horror stories of mismatched lifestyles living in tiny shared spaces are deeply rooted in the college experience. Every student who chooses to live on campus pauses to think about the uncomfortable situations they could possibly encounter. But this year, students across the country are entering...
As a commuting cyclist, I've noticed one thing about non-cyclists: They massively underestimate the cost of purchasing a bike.
Friends and acquaintances often approach me about buying their first bicycle since they were about 14, and the story usually goes like this: They've got $100 and they'd...
E-books go to college, but books still rule the campus, not Kindle
12:00PM 11/19/2009
High school and college students are usually leagues ahead of their elders, technologically speaking. As they're dizzyingly texting and Tweeting and multitasking to their hearts' content, they're reading far fewer books than students of previous generations. No wonder some institutions are adopting...
Pre-Order Windows 7 before July 11 and save 50%
10:00AM 7/09/2009
If you're sick and tired of using an operating system that can barely shut down correctly some days (Windows Vista) or simply want something that runs better than Windows XP, there's good news at your door: Windows 7 is coming in October, and right now you can get it half price. Through July 11 you...
The Job Hunt: Web site helps unemployed find schools to improve skills
4:00PM 2/05/2009
College on a Dime, Economy, Careers, college finance, Family Money
With 11.1 million people out of work, it makes sense that some would either return to college or find a technical school to learn new job skills.
CampusExplorer.com, a Web site that helps people search for schools, is seeing some of that market as more people look to retool their careers. In...
WalletPop's guide to buying textbooks: Part 2...Outside the box
6:00PM 8/16/2008
If you or your kid is new to college this year you've probably heard horror stories about book costs from your friends who have already crossed the archway to higher education but fear not! WalletPop is providing you with some great ways to save money on textbooks. The first part of our series...
WalletPop's guide to buying textbooks: Part one...don't!
3:00PM 8/15/2008
Nowadays, some students are easily spending $500 or more on textbooks each semester, prompting some professors to provide their new books online for students anywhere to use for free.Since this is unfortunately not yet the norm in many institutions around the nation, in a few weeks most parents and...
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