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College Life: Resources and Tips for College Students

Whether you're going off to college for the very first time, or are a returning student, you can find the help you need with our College Life Web Guide. Succeed academically, physically, financially and emotionally during your college years with advice on dorm life and health and finances, as well as Web tools for academic success.

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Dorm Life

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Get Organized

One way to make sure that you are successful in college is to get organized. Use the sites below to find a number of tools to help you stay on top of your assignments, and organize and track group projects.

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If you want to get organized without adding another application to your computer, consider using the calendar feature of a Web search engine or application you already use, such as Google Calendar or Microsoft Outlook.

Many college courses use some sort of online tool to keep students up to date on assignments and grades, and even allow them to turn in papers or participate in discussions online. If your professor isn't using an application like this, you may consider suggesting that you start a course blog so that students can stay updated.

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To keep yourself organized ...

30 Boxes is very simple to set up but has a surprisingly large number of additional features. Create your free account and set the calendar to show up on your blog or MySpace page, import contacts from your e-mail accounts, integrate the calendar with your Facebook account and even upload an avatar of yourself to display with your calendar.

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HipCal is a free online calendar and to-do list with some added features. It'll send you e-mail or cellphone alerts about important events, and you'll be able to create group calendars to coordinate for a school, work or other projects.

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To keep group projects organized ...

Stikipad lets you create and edit pages of text, allows others to view or edit your pages (and displays who made what changes and when) and uses templates to create stylized pages. Stikipad also has a to-do list feature, and lets you create an author profile.

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Backpack allows you to create what it calls "pages." On the pages you'll be able to keep to-do lists, create a page title, attach files for others to download and attach pictures. Backpack also has a calendar feature and lets you share pages or calendar events with others for collaboration. Backpack offers a free trial account with limited features, and a few different paid plans.

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Google Docs isn't a calendar, but it is a good way to track changes made to a document by multiple users (if you are, say, writing a group paper or taking group notes). Google Docs allows you to view previous versions and even revert to an old version of a document. Share a document with others and give them privileges to edit or just to view it, or export documents to word processing programs or as HTML to a Web page.

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