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  • Colour-coded highlighting | GearFire - Tips for Students on 2009-01-02
    • Yellow → Highlight in yellow important points, facts, examples etc.


      Pink → Use pink (or orange) to denote material that is even more important than what’s in yellow. For example, sentences that summarize sections, that explain the significance of the section, or provide definitions. (You may be really thankful for the two-level highlighting if you only have time for a bare bones revision.)

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      Blue → Reserve blue for words that will subsequently be defined (and then put their definitions in pink), titles or special terms.


      Green → Mark in green dates, names or places that you will need to remember. Green can also be used for formulas.


      Purple → If the material contains any rules, use the boldness of purple to set them apart.

  • Advice for Students: Taking Notes that Work - Stepcase Lifehack on 2009-01-02
    • The purpose of note-taking is simple: to help you study better and more quickly. This means your notes don’t have to contain everything, they have to contain the most important things
    • what’s new to you
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  • That College Kid: Note taking really isn't that bad on 2009-01-02
    • read the chapter first (seriously), outline it in Word and print it out. Bring this to class and in a colored pen (blue or red stands out the best), write notes, questions, and comments.
    • lack for main ideas
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  • 40 Unusual Websites you should Bookmark | MakeUseOf.com on 2009-01-01
    • 29. eSnailer - send free postal mail letters (to anywhere in the US) right from the desktop. From Canada? Check out EasyPost.
  • Recycling Basics for the Home on 2008-12-29
    • According to the EPA, the national recycling rate is just 30%. Increasing materials
      recycling in the US to 60% could save the equivalent of 315 million barrels
      of oil
  • French Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia on 2008-12-29
  • How to Take Killer Notes and Cut your Study Time by 50% | GearFire - Tips for Students on 2008-12-28
    • Define your note-taking system at the start of the year.
    • Choose quality materials for your system
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  • 22 'You got swerved!' movies - EW.com on 2008-07-13
  • Saturday... Random iTunes. | Gizzella_Orangespunk's Xanga Site - Weblog on 2008-07-12
    • a great album. I remember being a little kid and my grandpa had the cd.  He used to always put it on when we came over and I would dance and dance and dance. When my mom was pregnant with Cam, he would kick in time to the songs on this album. He's been a Paul Simon fan since he was

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