Students

Where to Get a Laptop Under $300 Right Now

If you’re a student who has suddenly found themselves attending classes remotely, or a person stuck working from home for a company reluctant to provide equipment, it goes without saying that you’ll need a reliable computer. Whether you need a new laptop or just need something to do some quick word processing, they usually don’t…

Fourth Grade Band Class Is Way Better With Vocoders, Drum Machines, and Daft Punk

When I was in grade school, the only reason I took band class was to avoid spending two hours in study hall every week. My motivations would have been completely different, however, were I raised in South Korea where fourth graders get to perform Daft Punk tracks instead of Sousa’s greatest hits. I’m not only…

School will soon be a bigger bore for kids in France: Starting next fall, students there will be banned from using cellphones in primary and middle schools, the French government announced today. Bummer.

Federal Student Aid Website Leaves Personal and Financial Info of Millions Vulnerable to Identity Thieves [Updated]

For Americans, the Social Security number (SSN) has long been considered one of the most private pieces of personally identifiable information. With it, you can unlock an infinite number of doors; behind each is a bank account, a trove of medical records, your cellphone call history, and a bevy of other intimate details about your…

Does a Time Capsule Blasted Into Space Have a Better Chance at Surviving 100 Years? (Updated)

To help celebrate the school’s 200-year anniversary, students at the University of Michigan have decided to build a time capsule. Boring, right? Not exactly. Instead of burying it, which would inevitably lead to its contents rotting away, the students want to blast it into space where it will orbit the earth for 100 years, potentially…

How Design Fanfiction Became One of the Internet’s Favorite Games

The redesign. It’s a word that’s only entered our lexicon in earnest over the past year or two, thanks to the hundreds of products reinvented by designers who don’t work for the companies that make them. When did it become so cool to do free work for major corporations? The answer is since internet. You’ve…

Check out this dad’s insane reaction to learning his son passed math

About a year ago, this British student was failing math. Seeing as a grade of C is the minimum requirement to pass a course in England, he seriously needed to turn things around. Now, if we’re to read into his dad’s incredible reaction, it would appear the lad got the job done. Here’s the full…

Is This Sustainable Hut the Future of Affordable Student Housing?

This modern 33-square-foot wooden hut is a concept by Swedish firm Tengbom Architects for affordable student housing called a smart student unit. It cleverly packs about five different traditional types of space into one small volume. But would it actually work? The concept was developed for students at Sweden’s University of Lund. Each hut is…

Are Computers Ruining Education?

The original description for this image says “My med school this morning. Future doctors of america learning ADHD one imgur link at a time.” I don’t know if they are medical students or if they were learning about ADHD for real, but maybe it’s time to reconsider laptops in the class. I never brought mine,…

When Every Student Realizes They Can Reply All and Spam Every Other Student It’s Fun for Everyone

When you connect a bunch of young college kids together on the Internet, any meeting eventually devolves into a crying mess of memes, Internet hall of fame pictures and a whole lot of trolling. So when students in Stanford’s computer science program realized that e-mailing one address would contact EVERY student, well, you bet it…

Here’s What Happens When 40,000 College Students Realize They Can E-Mail All 40,000 People at Once

NYU recently sent out a seemingly innocuous e-mail to all of its students asking them to opt for paperless forms. People in college get those kinds of e-mails all the time! But when one student decided to ask his mom if he should enable the paperless forms, he accidentally triggered a method that allowed him…

Why Can’t We Create a Human-Powered Helicopter Already?

The concept of a human-powered helicopter is surprisingly simple. The creation of a human-powered helicopter? Not so simple. People have been trying for 30 years to create a human-powered helicopter that can hover for 60 seconds, reach a height of 10 feet and stay inside a 33-foot box and no one has ever done it…

Now Is a Great Time to Buy a Galaxy Tab 2 7.0

If you’re thinking about picking up a tablet, especially for school, the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 just got a little bit better. The tablet’s Student Edition Bundle is on sale today until September 1st for $250. The student edition package includes a white version of the 8GB Galaxy Tab 2.0 running Android 4.0 but the…

Record Labels Are Paying Students to Narc on Students Who Pirate Music

If you’re still pirating music, stop. It’s illegal and wrong and stealing and bad and yadda yadda. But it’s also dangerous because you don’t even know who you can trust anymore. There is no honor amongst thieves, record labels are using a task force of students to hunt down other students who pirate music. EMI,…

An Amazing Student Was Caught with a 35-Foot Long Cheat Sheet Filled with 25,000 Answers

If you’ve cheated in school, you’ve probably scribbled test answers on an eraser, passed notes with a friend, glanced at your classmate’s test or even made a cheat sheet. You never, however, cheated like this amazing student. He’s taken cheating to an entirely different level: A 35-foot long cheat sheet with 25,000 answers. That’s right.…

Microsoft Will Give Students a Free Xbox 360 If They Buy a Windows PC

No one will like you if in college if you don’t have a laptop. Kidding! But seriously, in college, a laptop is your life. Microsoft wants to help you kiddies out: Just like last year, if you buy a Windows PC, it’ll throw in a free Xbox 360. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-giving-free-xbox-360s-to-pc-buying-students-t-5803566 Here’s how it works: Starting May…

Sesame Street Wants To Make Math and Science Fun Again

Admit it, most of us learned the letter C from the Cookie Monster’s iconic “C is for Cookie” song. But today’s kids – they have it better. They’re getting some Mythbusters along with their daily dose of Big Bird. https://gizmodo.com/have-no-fear-mythbusters-renewed-for-seven-more-years-5600941 Starting this season, Sesame Street will make Jamie and Adam proud by teaching math, science…

Would You Rather Stand Or Sit At Your Desk All Day?

The latest office trend sweeping the nation is stand up desks, according to the Wall Street Journal. A growing number of employees at companies like Facebook and Google are tossing aside their chair and asking to work while standing. The stand-up desk has a raised surface that is the proper height for a person to…

Amazon Student Lets College Kids Trade In Their Hated Textbooks

Summer’s ending, and it’s time to start packing and preparing for school. That means finding some money for those uber-expensive textbooks you’ll only need for 9 months. The Amazon Student app will let you trade in the old ones for new swag. While the app won’t give you cash for your old copy of Introduction…

Kno Thinks Selling College Textbooks On Facebook Is the Way Forward

Seems Kno realized that not every student wanted a hulking $899 dual-screened tablet, but I’m not sure selling textbooks that are readable on Facebook is the right way forward—hasn’t Kno thought about the possibility for distraction? https://gizmodo.com/that-dual-screened-kno-tablet-aimed-at-students-will-co-5685165 Several thousand textbooks will also be readable by web and through its iPad app, which had a bunch…