Part of being a student is realizing that you have to learn to live frugally, since cash flow isn’t always in your favour. Learning how to budget, in fact, might be one of the toughest skills to learn, but
StudentRate.com is a website that works to help students find deals and discounts on everything from textbooks, travel and technology.
Prepare for exams easily with
Koofers, which gives students access to study flashcards. The website also provides information about job and internships opportunities.
Alarm clocks are annoying enough, but the
Alarmy app boasts itself as the most annoying alarm on the planet. Never miss a early morning lecture of exam ever again. Try to sleep through it – it’s not likely you will.
Students can access
OpenStudy to join collaborative study environments with other students for topics including history, mathematics or science, to name a few. Get ahead of your classmates while you meet some new friends with similar interests.
Too tired to do a weekly reading for a class that doesn’t exactly peak your interests?
Audible is a database of audiobooks that you can download to any of your mobile devices and help you keep up with your studies while you spend time waiting in line or walking around.
Got a bunch of textbooks that you paid way too much money on? Need to buy new books for next semester?
Half, which is owned by eBay, helps students buy and sell books online and through a mobile app. Simply scan the barcode of whatever book you might need and the app will populate a list of the best deals going.
Keep your finances in check with
Mint a desktop and mobile platform that helps you categorize and organize expenses, set budgets, stay on top of payments and meet financial goals, such as paying down debts.
Visualize any research topic with an interactive concept map that you can customize and share with
InstaGrok. Not only does the website help make study materials a little cooler and streamlined, the interactive visual interface helps you easily remember critical information about whatever topic you please.
Never have your cell phone go off in the middle of class again and stay on your prof’s good side.
The
Studious app is available for free from the Android Play store and lets you silence your phone in class, set reminders for when homework and tests are due and even save lecture notes.
It’s all too easy these days to get distracted online with website such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
SelfControl is a free Mac app available from the Apple App Store that lets you block your own access to distracting websites, e-mail servers, or anything else on the Internet for specified periods of time. Until the timer expires, you won’t be able to access any of those sites.
We’ve all heard of
TED Talks, and we should all watch or listen to more of them. Not only are the “talks” motivational, they’re full of incredible useful information that you should be using as a reliable source of ideas for projects.
The
Dragon Dictation app is awesome for dictating lectures and help you keep your focus on the lecturer instead of pounding away at your keyboard trying to get down everything being said.
Keep files and folders secure in the cloud for a small monthly fee. The
SugarSync app also syncs all of your files on multiple devices so you can access them from anywhere.
You should never use Wikipedia as a source for essays or other written projects simply because it’s all user-generated and not always completely accurate. Professors hate it, and it also make you look like a bit of an amateur. Instead, take advantage of
Wolfgram Alpha is more than a search engine. It gives you access to the world’s facts and data and calculates answers across a range of topics, which is more than a search engine and gives you access to a ton of expert knowledge and trustworthy information and data across a range of topics.
This glorious app takes notes and documents and stores them in one easy-to-find place, across all of your mobile devices. If you’re an Evernote, Dropbox or Simplenote users, you can also sync those apps so any files saved within them are accessible through
Notella. It also prevents you from missing any important information your professors may drop unexpectedly, saving you from missing out on critical information when you’d least expect it.
