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	<title>College - U. Got It? &#187; School Tools</title>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Really Scary at Halloween? College Tuition!</title>
		<link>http://www.collegebound.net/blog/2009/10/27/whats-really-scary-at-halloween-college-tuition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>barb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Halloween is coming up in a few short days, and with the box-office battle between Paranormal Activity and Saw VI, there’s no shortage of chills and thrills in sight. So imagine my surprise when I found that the real terror comes from the seemingly tame College Board and its college cost calculator.
WARNING! THE INFORMATION BELOW [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kindle Test: Students Still Stuck on Paper</title>
		<link>http://www.collegebound.net/blog/2009/10/21/kindle-test-students-still-stuck-on-paper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lori</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was surprised the other day to see a college student I know pull out a stack of index cards and flip through them while studying for a big test. She and her friends constantly text and communicate via Facebook, but when it comes to taking notes and marking important passages in a textbook, they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online Lectures Make Learning Free and Fun</title>
		<link>http://www.collegebound.net/blog/2009/08/26/online-lectures-make-learning-free-and-fun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina LaGuardia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who says you have to shell out top dollar or leave your home state in order to receive an Ivy-League caliber education? Thanks to the power of the Internet, dozens of colleges and universities from across the country have made it possible for students to download and view lectures from some of their top professors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study Finds Students Are Getting Smart(phones)</title>
		<link>http://www.collegebound.net/blog/2009/04/09/study-finds-students-are-getting-smartphones/</link>
		<comments>http://www.collegebound.net/blog/2009/04/09/study-finds-students-are-getting-smartphones/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina LaGuardia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a recent survey by Ball State University (Muncie, Indiana), cell phone use – and smartphone use, in particular – is on the rise amongst college students. After speaking with 300 students, researchers found that while 99.7 percent owned a mobile device of some sort, 27 percent owned a smartphone.
For those who are unfamiliar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YouTube Gets Educated</title>
		<link>http://www.collegebound.net/blog/2009/04/06/youtube-gets-educated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina LaGuardia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Used to using YouTube for quick comedic clips, moving music videos, and film from family and friends? Well, it looks like you’ll have to reevaluate your view of the site from now on. While colleges and universities have been uploading clips of their courses and professors for quite some time, April marked the formal introduction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School Just Got Twitterful</title>
		<link>http://www.collegebound.net/blog/2009/03/26/school-just-got-twitterful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina LaGuardia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazing! Never thought I&#8217;d see my name next to old Bill Shakespeare.
&#8211; Ashton Kutcher, @aplusk, via Twitter
Well, to be honest, Ashton, neither did we! But it seems the world of academics is trying to get a little more pop-culture relevant each day – or at least in the UK, it is. According to The Guardian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CollegeBound Had a Girls&#8217; Night Out</title>
		<link>http://www.collegebound.net/blog/2009/03/04/collegebound-had-a-girls-night-out/</link>
		<comments>http://www.collegebound.net/blog/2009/03/04/collegebound-had-a-girls-night-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina LaGuardia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I had the pleasure of joining the Girl’s Night Out event (GNO) on Twitter. Hosted by Mom It Forward, GNO set lifelong learning as its topic, but discussion eventually covered everything from juggling school while handling children to getting your own kids into the college of their dreams.
Whether the participants were thinking about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Go, Go, Leximo!</title>
		<link>http://www.collegebound.net/blog/2009/02/11/go-go-leximo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.collegebound.net/blog/2009/02/11/go-go-leximo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina LaGuardia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Move over Wikipedia and Urban Dictionary, there’s a new user-generated knowledge database in town known as Leximo.org. Created and maintained by Ian Balina and Asad Mahmood, two juniors from The George Washington University (Washington D.C), Leximo.org is on a quest to amass the definitions of every word in every language with the help of users [...]]]></description>
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		<title>She Didn&#8217;t Want to Ubuntu</title>
		<link>http://www.collegebound.net/blog/2009/01/15/she-didnt-want-to-ubuntu/</link>
		<comments>http://www.collegebound.net/blog/2009/01/15/she-didnt-want-to-ubuntu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina LaGuardia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Craziness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article is making fast rounds around blogs and social media networks, but it&#8217;s also stirring up a fair amount of discussion and criticism along the way.
According to the piece, an aspiring college student ordered a laptop from Dell and found out that it came with the Ubuntu operating system instead of the more widely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Procrastinate Much?</title>
		<link>http://www.collegebound.net/blog/2009/01/05/procrastinate-much/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina LaGuardia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Admissions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week we welcome Robin Levinson, the content editor for CampusCompare.com, as our guest blogger. If you&#8217;re prone to procrastination, check out her college app tips now! Or later&#8230;
As college deadlines quickly approach, and you are one of those people inclined to wait until the last possible minute to send off your college applications, here [...]]]></description>
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