Student Resources
Advice

• Alcohol: How much is too much? -- a free online questionnaire to assess your drinking habits and see whether you might be walking close to the edge of addiction.
• Big List of Blog Search Engines
• Black Collegian-- Information on Black history, financial aid, job hunting strategies, and more.
• Blogger -- How to start your own
• Bloggie Awards! -- The best of the best by year.
• Contacting your Representative -e-mail members of the United States House of Representatives arranged by state and zip code. Why not?
• Daily Dose of Doonsebury -- newest cartoon every day. Develop your sense of irony.
• Dance Safe -- "is a nonprofit, harm reduction organization promoting health and safety within the rave and nightclub community. Our information and services are directed primarily towards non-addicted, recreational drug users."
• Etiquette Grrrls
• Finding Blogs -- on lots of topics or just general ones.
• Free Audio Books -- only books that are in the public domain, read by volunteers.
• Learning Strategies Database--guide to improving academic success by improving your skills at note-taking, listening, test-taking.
• Creative Thinking -- mind games to exercise your creative thinking
• Hoax Busters -- from our friends at the U.S. dept. of Energy, it "describes some of the warnings, offers, and pleas for help that are filling our mailboxes, clogging our mail servers, and that generally do not have any basis in fact." Also a section on real costs of e-mail hoaxes. Searchable. Find out if it's real BEFORE you forward it on!
• How Deja vu works -- what is it really?
• How Dreams Work -- "Are dreams random brain impulses, or do they offer insight into our waking lives?"
• Iowa Register to Vote Form -- it's never too early to start thinking about the Senate races in 2006!
• Movie Profiler -- Find a movie based on the emotion you want to feel!!!
• MySpace: How it works -- what it is, what it can do and safety issues...
• Name Meanings -- over 51,000 names
• NPR Podcast Directory -- get all sorts of podcasts from America's public radio stations.
• Quack Watch--the consumers' guide to health fraud and quackery. 
• Podcast Directory -- find ALL sorts of podcasts!
• Podcast Directory -- from a different source. look on the left side.
• Political Blogging - from the 13th floor
• Project Vote Smart-- Sort of like a consumer's guide to politicians in your area. Just the facts.  
• Reading Groups--advice on how to start and keep going a reading group with fun book suggestions, guides to help you talk about the books and even recipes to make for your group. A great way to hang out together!
• Safer Car -- U.S. government's one-stop shopping center for ratings on tires, airbags, rollover ratings, defects and recalls.
• Study Abroad
• StudyAbroad.Com --descriptions, contact information and links to a wide range of international programs.
• Study Guides and Strategies--the advice the College of St. Thomas gives its students to improve their test-taking skills, study techniques, time and stress management.
• Textbook Revolution -- full-text textbooks online arranged by discipline.
• Tide Stain Detective--all you ever wanted to know about doing laundry.
• U.S. Consumer Gateway--6 government agencies have pooled their consumer information and made it easily accessible in this one handy site.
• USDA Nutrient Base--another program that will analyze the complete nutritional content of any food item.
• Vehix.com --an excellent site for all automobile purchases, new and used. One can get the specifics on individual cars for price, safety, lemon, recalls and crash test results and compares different makes and models. It also locates used cars of your choice of make and model in your local area.