http://themodernstudent.com The Definitive Guide to being a Modern Student. Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:28:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is such a simple and rewarding tip you won't believe it at first. If you organise your work it just feels much easier to go back to. There's nothing worse than sitting down in a classroom, opening your folder and finding it's in a complete mess. ... http://themodernstudent.com/organise-your-work/ Dear readers & friends, I am very sorry I haven't been updating the blog.  I haven't been online at all recently to be honest due to a number of factors. Excuse #1 - Regular visitors may recall that I have recently switched schools, well it finally caught up with me.  It wasn't ... http://themodernstudent.com/i-am-so-sorry/ Yesterday was my first day in a new school.  I was moving from a secondary school to a sixth form college and there were many differences.  It went well and but I found some of the differences a bit difficuilt to come to terms with.  To get them off my ... http://themodernstudent.com/the-first-day-of-school/ Well, it's about 2 weeks until I go back to school after the long summer break and so I thought I'd share my thoughts and ideas on this brand new, exciting and very often terrifying time. I always looked forward to the start of a new school year as a younger ... http://themodernstudent.com/how-and-why-to-keep-that-back-to-school-enthusiasm/ [N.B. A lot of my inspiration for this post is taken from Merlin Mann's Building a Smarter To-Do List parts 1 and 2 so read them if you like] Students are being given new assignments every day and they need somewhere to record them for future reference.  Believe it or not ... http://themodernstudent.com/making-your-to-do-list-awesome/ We all love the internet, at least you don't hate it because you're using it now.  But there are definately times when this multi-billion page cyber highway can get in the way.  But no matter how hard we try, there always seems a reason to go back to it, is ... http://themodernstudent.com/how-to-escape-the-internet/ Moleskines are these crazy little notebooks which I discovered courtesy of MacBreak Weekly and Merlin Mann.  They are a must-have for Geeks but don't let that put you off - they are way too useful for you to let them pass you by. Here are a few of my favourite moleskine ... http://themodernstudent.com/moleskinerie/ The blog has been online for just over 3 weeks now and I am coming close to finishing the final design.  I like it I must confess, but do you? What do you think of the font, the sidebar, the ad and the hover effects?  Please give me your feedback. Here is ... http://themodernstudent.com/its-the-final-countdown/ We all have a routine.  Even the greatest 'free spirit' has a certain point during the day when he'll regularly be doing something, and us students are no different. A routine provides comfort and certainty in our day-to-day lives and enables us to focus ourselves on particular tasks at certain times ... http://themodernstudent.com/is-your-routine-harming-you/ This is a question I find myself asking (myself) from time to time, usually about once or twice a year.  This happens when I get myself into a right pickle and need to take a step backwards, a deep breath and tackle all the problems that are bugging me at ... http://themodernstudent.com/do-you-need-to-sort-your-life-out/