College Success Skills Research Guide: Web Resources

You can calculate how much time you spend daily on different activities and determine what time is available for your studying.

WolframAlpha is a computational knowledge engine. It will do math equations, calculate quantitative data and statistics, and access vast scientific, technical, chemical, medical, health, business, financial, weather, geographic, dictionary, calendar, reference, and general knowledge, and more. Try looking at some of their examples or using the quick tour to see how this program works.

Dartmouth has produced a nice Web site on time management strategies for college students.

The Occupational Outlook Handbook is produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It provides lots of information on almost all types of jobs including: training and education needed, earnings, expected job prospects, what workers do on the job, and working conditions.

They are a nonprofit public charity that has no government affiliations of any kind. Their purpose is to provide resources for critical thinking and to educate without bias. They accomplish their mission by researching important controversial issues, and present them in a balanced, comprehensive, straightforward, and primarily pro-con format at no charge on their websites.

This web page is produced by the math department at St Louis University. It provides some excellent tactics for studying math, problem solving, asking questions and taking math tests.

This blog produced by the WolframAlpha computational knowledge engine folks, provides interesting calculations and random topics such as urban traffic statistics, calculating solar flares, a tidal calculator, a Statistics Course Assistant App for the ipad (iphone, ipod touch), etc.

This is the blog of the British Psychological Society and it focuses on how psychology matters in the workplace. You will find articles here on how to deal with anger in the work place, issues of child employment, etc.