Archive for the ‘News’ Category
November 4th, 2009
by Adam Krause
Let’s be serious: caffeine is awesome. What other legal, nonprescription, tasty drug allows you to thoroughly wake up in the morning, concentrate at work, and subvert your body’s urge to sleep seven to eight hours at night? I’ve tried caffeinated mints, caffeinated water and would love to try caffeinated bacon. A typical day for me begins with coffee, continues with cola and ends with Earl Grey tea. I’m even drinking caffeine AS I TYPE THIS!
However, for you students out there, it may actually not be too wise to become dependent on the miracle drug for fueling all your last-minute papers. In the interests of science, Eduify has compiled a list of caffeine’s effects on the body, listed according to number of eight-ounce cups of coffee.
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August 13th, 2009
For new college students, the summer before school starts can be a stressful, hectic few months. You’re preparing for your first year of post-secondary school, you’re worried about your dorm, living in a new place, and on top of that, you need to line up financial aid and scholarship money. But we’re hearing from more and more students who are having a harder time receiving financial aid in these tough times than ever before — and we’re even hearing that state budgets are even going so far as to cut financial aid programs for students, even the ones who need it the most. Everyone knows that going to college is a valuable experience which helps people get further in life — and that the pursuit of knowledge has a worth that far exceeds anything money can buy — so we want to do what we can, financially, to make sure you can go to college. We provide educational services, after all, so of course we care about education.
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Note: You can use it for anything (a new computer, textbooks, your plane ticket home for the holidays). The only catch is that you must be enrolling as a freshman in a 4-year college or university in the United States.
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August 4th, 2009
There’s no doubt about it: scholarship essays are a tricky matter to approach. Scholarship competitions often arrive at your doorstep during the last half of the school year, by far the most hectic time in the academic year when students are already bogged down with extracurriculars, final exams, looming end-of-year grades, not to mention stress-inducing standardized tests. More often than not, high-schoolers focus on their “real schoolwork” and procrastinate on the “optional schoolwork” of scholarship applications, to the point where they end up scrambling, up to the final hours, to turn in shoddy, half-hearted applications, essays, and personal statements to a host of scholarship competitions they actually would have had a good chance of winning, had they simply believed in themselves more and taken more time to do a job well done. Read the rest of this entry »
July 26th, 2009
Over the last couple months, we’ve been working on bringing a lot of our capabilities to mobile phones. This allows you, the student, to do some really cool, time-saving things that make writing and researching faster.
Remember the last time you lost your usb drive or forgot to email yourself a doc? Well, our mobile app lets you access, edit or share any of the papers you’ve stored on Eduify from anywhere. You can just pull up the doc on your phone and email it to your teacher (yes, one less excuse to think of now).
Our mobile app also allows you grab the bibliography and quotes from books or other physical media with the camera on your phone. This means the days of photocopying pages from a book (yeah, save trees and copy-card credits!) and manually writing down the bibliography info are gone. Just snap a couple pictures and we turn quotes into editable text and nicely formatted MLA bibliography entries. Read the rest of this entry »
June 30th, 2009
So you need to pull an all-nighter because you’ve played video games all week instead of writing your term paper, plus you have four tests tomorrow (none of which you’ve studied for), and it’s now 8PM and you’re in a daze, freaking out, and feeling like you’re going to have a heart attack because you have no idea how to tackle the intense studying and writing that await your attention the night ahead and you have no idea how to get out of it alive?
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