Ancient proverb.
Hi guys!! i know i haven’t posted in a while but here goes. My friend Guy had a bad accident last friday night and fell off 5 floors. He broke his arm and now needs money to pay for his surgery, or he’ll lose his arm. Guy Emmanuel is great and he truly doesn’t deserve this horrible thing (not that anyone deserves it, but yeah). Any donation would greatly help us ❤❤❤
and if you can’t donate then at least sharing this post would be if tremendous help. Thank you guys and I love you all. xoxox
www.gofundme.com/save-guys-arm
Emily Kaldwin + eyes
hey man I haven’t heard anything from Beethoven in a while is he on hiatus or something
beethoven hasnt heard anything in a while either
Too soon
HE DIED IN 1827
He’s decomposing
Giant College Masterpost
For Your First Year
- Ten apps for freshman students
- Freshmen facts infographic
- Choosing a major infographic
- Pros & cons of going to a small college
- Things to do during syllabus week
- Making the most out of your syllabus
- How to pass a hard college course
- Why you should consider community college
- Preparing for your freshman year
- Nearly two hundred freshman tips
- Mistakes to avoid in classes
- Figuring out what you really want to do
- Career advice no one will tell you
- Surviving your first month
- Choosing a major
- Tips for the self-conscious freshman
- College preparation timeline
- Writing college application essays
- Scheduling classes
- College visit tips
Studying
- How to create a study guide
- Make online flashcards
- Learn absolutely anything
- Math homework help
- The five best note taking systems
- How to take notes from a textbook
- Math study tips
- Making a study schedule
- How to form good study habits
- How to be effective when studying
- Study playlists
- Are you study savvy?
- Study tips & learning styles
- Ways to study flow chart
- College study habits infographic
- Study hacks
Essays
- How to write long papers (the formula)
- Write a perfect essay
- Have someone proofread your writing for free
- Easily cite & manage your paper with a team of people
- College essay topics
- Writing a research question
- Research terms defined
- Making your paper stand out
- Writing with clarity cheat sheet
- How to make your papers longer or shorter cheat sheet
- What to do if you don’t have time to finish an essay
- Writing & editing your paper
- Six tips to make your paper 3X better
- MLA formatting printable
- Word frequency counter
- Ways to start and end an essay
Exams & Tests
- Exam preparation tips
- How to make a finals study schedule
- How to beat test anxiety
- Reducing stress during finals
- How to study for finals
- Study tips
- Final exams infographic
- Finals study checklist
- Final exams cheat sheet
Finances
- Couponing for college girls
- Paying for college: beyond the basic costs
- Student discounts
- More student discounts
- Even more student discounts
- Seven ways to go to college for free
- Top five ways to save on college expenses
- Financial aid roadmap
- Seven questions to ask about student loans
- Financial advice for students
- Get cheap or free school supplies
- Side jobs for students
- Student loan mistakes
- Making money in college
- Smart ways to cut college costs
- Financial planning printables
- Easy ways to save money
- A guide to the cheapest college textbooks
- Online jobs for students
- Money-saving apps
- How to get an Apple student discount
- Ways students can live on a budget
- Sell your notes online
- Over fifty things you can score with your student ID
- Financial management tips for students
- Student discounts pocket guide
- Things people in their twenties need to know about finances
- Financial guidance
Relationships & Social Life
- Tips for owning your college hookups
- Asking a professor to change your grade
- E-mailing professors the right way
- Truths about sex in college
- Tips for having a successful college relationship
- Pros & cons of being taken in college
- Seven ways to make new friends
- How to start conversations with strangers
- Dealing with social anxiety in college
- Ideas for sober coed socials
- How to get along with your roommate
- Perfecting the art of small talk
- The introvert’s guide to making friends in college
- How to be a great roommate
- Conversation starters for painful first dates
- Tips on surviving your first party
- What you need to know about trying drugs in college
- Simple ways to impress your professor
Mental & Physical Health
- Juggling work & school
- A college girl’s guide to being healthy
- Remedies for homesickness
- A healthy girl’s grocery list
- When life challenges threaten your academic success
- Eating healthy in college
- How to reduce college stress
- Dealing with mental illness in college
- Staying healthy
- Getting through college when you don’t like to party
- Advice on mental illness from college graduates
- Stressed out students infographic
- What to do when you can’t afford therapy
- How to calm your brain after a busy day
- A cure for the life of a stressed out student infographic
- Ways to avoid burnout
- Top five mental health issues college students face
- The truth about sexual assault on campuses
- Gaining confidence in college
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what, the fuck
every season, I've asked this at least once: what the fuck, Julia?
24 Invaluable Skills To Learn For Free Online This Year
Here’s an easy resolution: This stuff is all free as long as you have access to a computer, and the skills you learn will be invaluable in your career, and/or life in general.
1. Become awesome at Excel.
Chandoo is one of many gracious Excel experts who wants to share their knowledge with the world. Excel excellence is one of those skills that will improve your chances of getting a good job instantly, and it will continue to prove invaluable over the course of your career. What are you waiting for?
2. Learn how to code.
Perhaps no other skill you can learn for free online has as much potential to lead to a lucrative career. Want to build a site for your startup? Want to build the next big app? Want to get hired at a place like BuzzFeed? You should learn to code. There are a lot of places that offer free or cheap online coding tutorials, but I recommend Code Academy for their breadth and innovative program. If you want to try a more traditional route, Harvard offers its excellent Introduction to Computer Science course online for free.
3. Make a dynamic website.
You could use a pre-existing template or blogging service, or you could learn Ruby on Rails and probably change your life forever. Here’s an extremely helpful long list of free Ruby learning tools that includes everything from Rails for Zombies to Learn Ruby The Hard Way. Go! Ruby! Some basic programming experience, like one of the courses above, might be helpful (but not necessarily required if you’re patient with yourself).
4. Learn to make a mobile game.
If you’re not interested in coding anything other than fun game apps, you could trythis course from the University of Reading. It promises to teach you how to build a game in Java, even if you don’t have programming experience! If you want to make a truly great game, you might want to read/listen up on Game Theory first.
5. Start reading faster.
Spreeder is a free online program that will improve your reading skill and comprehension no matter how old you are. With enough practice, you could learn to double, triple, or even quadruple the speed at which you read passages currently, which is basically like adding years to your life.
6. Learn a language!
With Duolingo, you can learn Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, or English (from any of the above or more). There’s a mobile app and a website, and the extensive courses are completely free.
Full disclosure: BuzzFeed and other websites are in a partnership with DuoLingo, but they did not pay or ask for this placement.
7. Pickle your own vegetables.
Tired of your farmer’s market haul going bad before you use it all? Or do you just love tangy pickled veggies? You too can pickle like a pro thanks to SkillShare and Travis Grillo.
8. Improve your public speaking skills.
You can take the University of Washington’s Intro to Public Speaking for free online. Once you learn a few tricks of the trade, you’ll be able to go into situations like being asked to present at a company meeting or giving a presentation in class without nearly as much fear and loathing.
9. Get a basic handle of statistics.
UC Berkeley put a stats intro class on iTunes. Once you know how to understand the numbers yourself, you’ll never read a biased “news” article the same way again — 100% of authors of this post agree!
10. Understand basic psychology.
Knowing the basics of psych will bring context to your understanding of yourself, the dynamics of your family and friendships, what’s really going on with your coworkers, and the woes and wonders of society in general. Yale University has its Intro to Psychology lectures online for free.
11. Make your own music.
Step one: Learn how to play guitar: Justin Guitar is a fine and free place to start learning chords and the basic skills you’ll need to be able to play guitar — from there, it’s up to you, but once you know the basics, just looking up tabs for your favorite songs and learning them on your own is how many young guitar players get their start (plus it’s an excellent party trick).
Step two: A delightful free voice lesson from Berklee College Of Music.
Step three: Have you always thought you had an inner TSwift? Berklee College of Music offers an Introduction to Songwriting course completely for free online. The course is six weeks long, and by the end of the lesson you’ll have at least one completed song.
Step four: Lifehacker’s basics of music production will help you put it all together once you have the skills down! You’ll be recording your own music, ready to share with your valentine or the entire world, in no time!
12. Learn to negotiate.
Let Stanford’s Stan Christensen explain how to negotiate in business and your personal life, managing relationships for your personal gain and not letting yourself be steamrolled. There are a lot of football metaphors and it’s great.
13. Stop hating math.
If you struggled with math throughout school and now have trouble applying it in real-world situations when it crops up, try Saylor.org’s Real World Math course. It will reteach you basic math skills as they apply IRL. Very helpful!
14. Start drawing!
All kids draw — so why do we become so afraid of it as adults? Everyone should feel comfortable with a sketchbook and pencil, and sketching is a wonderful way to express your creativity. DrawSpace is a great place to start. (I also highly recommend the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain if you can drop a few dollars for a used copy.)
15. Make your own animated GIF.
BuzzFeed’s own Katie Notopoulos has a great, simple guide to making an animated GIF without Photoshop. This is all you need to be the king or queen of Tumblr or your favorite email chains.
16. Appreciate jazz.
Have you never really “gotten” jazz? If you want to be able to participate in conversations at fancy parties and/or just add some context to your appreciation of all music, try this free online course from UT Austin.
17. Write well.
Macalester College’s lecture series is excellent. If you’re more interested in journalism, try Wikiversity’s course selection.
18. Get better at using Photoshop.
Another invaluable skill that will get you places in your career, learning Photoshop can be as fun as watching the hilarious videos on You Suck At Photoshop or as serious as this extensive Udemy training course (focused on photo retouching).
19. Take decent pictures.
Lifehacker’s basics of photography might be a good place to start. Learn how your camera works, the basic of composition, and editing images in post-production. If you finish that and you’re not sure what to do next, here’s a short course on displaying and sharing your digital photographs.
20. Learn to knit.
Instructables has a great course by a woman who is herself an online-taught knitter. You’ll be making baby hats and cute scarves before this winter’s over!
21. Get started with investing in stocks.
If you are lucky enough to have a regular income, you should start learning about savings and investment now. Investopedia has a ton of online resources, including this free stocks basics course. Invest away!
22. Clean your house in a short amount of time.
Unf$#k Your Habitat has a great emergency cleaning guide for when your mother-in-law springs a surprise visit on you. While you’re over there, the entire blog is good for getting organized and clean in the long term, not just in “emergencies.” You’ll be happier for it.
23. Start practicing yoga.
Most cities have free community classes (try just searching Google or inquiring at your local yoga studio), or if you’re more comfortable trying yoga at home, YogaGlohas a great 15-day trial and Yome is a compendium of 100% free yoga videos. If you’re already familiar with basic yoga positions but you need an easy way to practice at home, I recommend YogaTailor’s free trial as well.
24. Tie your shoelaces more efficiently.
It’s simple and just imagine the minutes of your life you’ll save!