College Tools: RateMyProfessors.com

November 23, 2009 · Filed Under College Life 101, Tech · 1 Comment 

Continuing with the College Tools post, I would like to introduce another useful tool: RateMyProfessors.com. This website is very well known in compared to the previous tool mentioned Cramster.com but not everyone seems to use it. In this website you will find a review on almost any teacher in your college. If he is not in the website for whatever reason then you should add a review to that teacher. Before people had to rely on a friend telling you what teachers are good, which ones are easy and etc. but now we can just hear from other students we don’t even know. A lot of professors are aware of this website and often like to criticize it because of course they do not want to accept the reality of them being a sucky professor or that there classes are extremely hard.
It is always a good idea to get some references on which teacher to take for your next class, the reviews are usually pretty accurate.

Yasser

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College Tools: Cramster.com

September 25, 2009 · Filed Under College Life 101, Tech · 1 Comment 

One of my favorite college tools that I discovered a bit late is Cramster.com. This website provides over 200 books in different fields with their homework solutions. Their subject range isn’t too big but it will help out mostly in Math, Computer Science, Biology and Physics. I would highly suggest to use this as an aid to compare your homework solutions to the solutions provided by Cramster. It is not very good to use it to just copy and paste your homework because you will fail the class (trust me). The solutions are given step by step so it is good to follow it and learn while you do it. The problem with the step by step is that it is not detailed and sometimes it might be a bit difficult to understand what they actually did. Cramster also provides a message board for when you need extra help with a problem or one of your homeworks is not listed on the website. Unfortunately Cramster.com isn’t really free…you can view all odd problem for free but if you want to see all the other problems then you will need to pay. The price isn’t very expensive and I think it is very well worth it. I signed up for the monthly pay of $4.17 which I believe was very well worth it. There are different plans that are more expensive but allow you to get more help and what not, it is up to you to see what suits you best. Don’t forget to cancel your subscription because it will keep charging you for ever if you don’t unsubscribe after you don’t need it anymore. I highly recommend to use this website as an aid to people in science and technical majors.

Yasser

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