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Google Book Search is an Amazing Service

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Whether the masses know it or not, Google has been recreating the Library of Alexandria in an online format. While it is still a work in progress, the Google Book Search is home to hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of printed documents that have been digitized for your searching needs. In terms of actual books, works that are out of copyright are available for full download and printing at no cost to the user.

The applications of the Google Book Search are almost endless. The first things that pop into my mind are the English classes that I had to take in college. Well, not the classes themselves, but the hundreds if not thousands of dollars that I spent on books. Take Shakespeare – I had to buy two different anthologies of Shakespeare titles. In the mean time, Google Book Search has the entire works of William Shakespeare available for full download. Full download! Come on!

I could easily be in a few thousand dollars LESS of student loan debt if this service was available ten years ago, damn it.

Since I know a lot of college students (and those who talk to college students) find their way on to my blog, I’m making the strong recommendation that you check Google Book Search for the texts needed in your literature and English classes before you go spending hundreds of dollars on anthologies. Speaking as someone who is in a great deal of student loan debt, trust me – every little bit counts when trying to save money in college!

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Those Damn College Students – At It Again!

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

This one is too good to let up. I was flipping around the website of a local newspaper in Monmouth County and I came across an article that I had to share with the world. The name of the article? Monmouth University helps to open thrift shop. From the article:

Professor John Buzza has brought the Monmouth University Center for Entrepreneurship and students together with the RedeemHer Organization to open the thrift store. All proceeds from the store will be donated to the nonprofit organization RedeemHer.

Monmouth University students from Buzza’s entrepreneurship class are helping RedeemHer open the thrift store in Neptune, called Second Chances. The students and members of RedeemHer are involved in all aspects of the project, including creating a business plan, decorating, floor plans, sorting through donations, installing walls, public relations, marketing and staffing.

Wait. What? Is this an article that talks about how Monmouth University students are HELPING the community?! You know, from time to time I blog about the bias in the media, but that’s usually at a national level. There is also a bias in local media that is inherently anti-college student – but I’m sure you can understand why, right? Why would a newspaper – which is a dying breed to begin with – write articles that are pro-college students when the vast majority of those people living around college areas don’t like the off-campus population? It only makes sense that newspapers would be anti-college students, right?

Anyway, I’m glad that the Atlanticville has stepped out of the bunch and printed an article that praises some of the noteworthy work being completed by this particular class. This sounds like a good nonprofit organization and I’m sure that the students are getting one heck of an education by helping to build the business. Very impressive work on behalf of Monmouth University and a good article by the Atlanticville.

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Going Away to Nashville for a Few Days

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

For the next few days, I’ll be in Nashville, Tennessee for Sigma Pi Fraternity’s “Sigma Pi University” event. This event takes place every other year and serves as a training ground for both undergraduate leaders and alumni volunteers.

I will be presenting two separate workshops over the course of the weekend. The first is on Friday at 2:30 pm (Nashville time) when I’ll be talking about how to set up an ACE Project. The ACE Project is Sigma Pi Fraternity’s national program to give back to our host institutions. For those wondering, ACE stands for Altruistic Campus Experience.

The next presentation is called “Putting on a Province Workshop” and takes place on Saturday morning at 9:45 am (also Nashville time). This will be, more or less, an open discussion about the best practices from around the nation in terms of setting up Province Workshops (these are regional workshops).

Other than those two events and a few meet and greet events, I plan on kicking back and relaxing while I’m in Nashville. I haven’t taken a true vacation in many, many years (in fact, I think it might have been when I was in grade school). So since I might have the opportunity to enjoy myself a little bit this weekend, I’m going to take that opportunity!

And I’ll see all of you back here next week. In the mean time, try Jersey City Locksmith for the best locksmith service in the Garden State!

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SigmaPi.com is Down…Just Relax

Tuesday, June 14th, 2005

A bunch of the guys have been IMing me telling me that SigmaPi.com is down. I know guys – I go there, too.

I called the hosting company and they said that last night they upgraded the Control Panel software to a newer version (which is why the site was down yesterday). Apparently the server couldn’t handle the new software so they had to immediately remove the new software and downgrade back to the old stuff.

In short, our website is down for a little bit, but it should be back up and functioning shortly. In the mean time…just relax. Go outside and enjoy this 102 degree weather.

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