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CONNECT WITH YOURSELF
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The Connect With Yourself section features thought-provoking and inspiring resources: articles, books, websites and videos.
The content is arranged thematically:
Your Studies = Any and all things related to academics and education.
Your Career = Advice for career planning, internships and the like.
Your Relationships = How to make the most of the people in your life!
Your Finances = Budgeting, financial aid, how to be a financial guru, etc.
Your Health = Treat your body well!
Your Spirit = Neat stuff on religion, spirituality and being a good person.
Yourself = The catch-all! Personality quizzes and other super cool stuff.
This content library is a perpetual work in progress, it will never be complete. We will always be adding new and inspiring content.
And, this is a collaborative project! That means we need you to share with us the articles, books, websites and videos that inspire you.
YOUR STUDIES
When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do. (Walt Disney)
- Is college for everyone?
- Written in 2006, an article about selecting the right undergraduate college. 5 years later, the words continue ringing true.
- The Final Approach To College. Finding "the sparkle you want to feel about the school you attend."
- Why Nerds Are Unpopular
- The 10 benefits of a college degree
- College degrees cost more and are worth less. "Every college degree is not cookie cutter. It's what you have done during that degree to distinguish yourself."
- The Internet's largest listing of collegiate professor ratings, with more than 11 million student-generated ratings of over 1 million professors.
- Rent Your Textbooks & Save Hundreds of Dollars
- Free online books library for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast.
- Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT. No registration required.
- The Quad is a free web platform that caters specifically to your college experience. It's social, scholastic, savvy and streamlined. You can explore, organize and share unlike ever before.
- ResearchGATE is a professional network for scientists. It's free of charge and equips you with useful tools.
- Another scientific community for sharing and collaboration.
- The World's Largest Online Language Learning Community
- An education resource dedicated to teaching students about different college majors in depth so that they can make more informed college and career choices.
- Demystifying success: strategies for building a life that’s accomplished and engaging, but also relaxed and enjoyable to live.
- Study guides and Strategies
- Key Study Skills Tools to Achieve Academic Success
- LearnHub is a social learning network dedicated exclusively to international education offering a variety of innovative tools that empower your research and help you enroll in programs to meet your dreams.
- Want a Harvard education? Check it:
- CampusAccess.com is a comprehensive resource and information guide for current/prospective university and college students.
- iTunes U - a powerful distribution system for everything from lectures to language lessons, films to labs, audiobooks to tours - is an innovative way to get educational content into the hands of students. (Note: can only access lectures via iTunes) ">
- Free Cultural and Educational Media
- TED Ideas Worth Spreading > Education
- Live a passionate life, tread softly on your dreams... FLOURISH:
- BRILLIANCE! One of our favorite videos of all time. Time for an education revolution!
This is a collaborative project and we would love your input! Do you know of an inspiring resource to add to this section? Please, share it with us!
YOUR CAREER
Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life. (Confucius)
- Career Exploration Tools and Resources
- The Career Planning Process
- HOW TO: Find a Job on Twitter
- For the creative bunch -- 10 Laws of Productivity
- Are college degrees necessary for 'success'?
- Unpaid internships. . . is there more value in experience than in a dollar?
- "Long hours are painless when you are doing what you love." - SCOTUS Justice Sotomayor
- Get the most from your professional network
- Essential skills for an excellent career
- Join Ecademy for exclusive business networking
- Fast Pitch is a Global Network of Professionals connecting online with the primary goal to add value to their business and the community as a whole.
- A job board for college students searching for internships and recent graduates hunting for entry-level jobs and other career opportunities
- JobWeb offers career and job-search advice for new college graduates.
- Specializing in building exclusive, professional College networks. Through these networks, our members get connected to exclusive career opportunities.
- Social innovation and social entrepreneurship
- "We want you to change the world in new, exciting and big, hugely big, More with Less ways." - Bill Nye
- "It is more important to be kind than clever." - Founder of Amazon.com, Jeff Bazos
- "Find your own truth and follow it." "You get out of life, what you put into life." "You learn more from failure than from success." One of the greats, our generational predecessor - JAY-Z (Oprah’s Master Class)
This is a collaborative project and we would love your input! Do you know of an inspiring resource to add to this section? Please, share it with us!
YOUR RELATIONSHIPS
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. (Dalai Lama)
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - If you are interested but do not want to obtain a copy of the book (check your local library!) and read it, then you will have to listen to this guy explain the book’s extremely useful core principles! Video
- How to Win Friends and Influence People - Again, if you do not want to obtain and read the book you can listen to this chap explain the valuable core principles! Video
- Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time - And/Or check out the author’s personal story The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea
- The 5 Love Languages. What if you could say or do just the right thing guaranteed to make that special someone feel loved?
- The 48 Laws of Power. This book contains some principles that are straight up EVIL! However, if correctly applied with good faith some can be useful (good faith, people!). And, it is especially useful to know these ideas, in the event someone tries to manipulate you with them! Here, the book - and here, the laws Laws
- Campusbug is a social learning network providing educational and social networking tools to students all over the world. Now you can stay smart and connected.
- Find your community.
- A site for teens about dating violence, recognizing warning signs for an abusive relationship, understanding what a healthy relationship is, and resources for teens in abusive relationships.
- Conversational video.
- Got questions? Get answers.
This is a collaborative project and we would love your input! Do you know of an inspiring resource to add to this section? Please, share it with us!
YOUR FINANCES
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. (Benjamin Disraeli)
- Student Aid on the Web from the Department of Education.
- Financial Aid Calculator. Extensive forms and help for figuring out any combination of grants and loans.
- International Education Financial Aid.
- Senior year expenses: Learn how to save money in your last year in high school.
- High school Financial Planning
- Personal finance mecca, for the finance savvy.
- Get help paying for college
- Where smart women get smarter about their money
- Mint brings all your financial accounts together online, automatically categorizes your transactions, lets you set budgets & helps you achieve your savings goals.
- For the investor-types in the bunch: a website created by regular, everyday investors who are sick of the level of innovation at the major finance portals.
- Save. Organize. Act.
This is a collaborative project and we would love your input! Do you know of an inspiring resource to add to this section? Please, share it with us!
YOUR HEALTH
He who has health has hope; he who has hope has everything. (Arab Proverb)
- An online fitness studio!
- Free workout videos, fitness plans and healthy lifestyle tips!
- A project that helps plan running routes by drawing them out on a map, plus the addition of a distance/speed calculator and calorie burn estimator.
- Abundant health related resources offered by the reputable Mayo Clinic
- Hey girlllll... "Imagine beauty as a source of confidence, not anxiety." Dove’s fabulous campaign (navigate the site, there’s all sorts of inspiration).
- Find the nearest YMCA and get there! - Always offering fun activities and workout facilities
This is a collaborative project and we would love your input! Do you know of an inspiring resource to add to this section? Please, share it with us!
YOUR SPIRIT
Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, 'Grow, grow.’ (The Talmud)
- Cure for the Common Life. "God gave you uniqueness, a talent, a skill, one that is yours alone to use in honoring Him." - (Here is the online text, if you are up to reading it on your computer screen: Link
- Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff for Teens. A classic.
- Love, neat stuff and Christianity.
- Inspiration. Spirituality. Faith.
- Youth For Christ International
- Birthright Israel - the gift of first time, peer group, educational trips to Israel for Jewish young adults ages 18 to 26 in order to strengthen participants' personal Jewish identity and connection to the Jewish people.
- Islam 101 is an educational website on Islam, Muslims, its theology, human relations with Muslims and non-Muslims, its history, civilization and everything else in life.
This is a collaborative project and we would love your input! Do you know of an inspiring resource to add to this section? Please, share it with us!
YOURSELF
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. (Anaïs Nin)
- Tapping the Power Within
- Inspiration From Generation-Y
- Understanding your personality type:
- Time Management advice from a guy who finished college in 3 semesters
- The Science of Ambition (Energy + Goals + Persistence)
- Six Keys to Being Excellent at Anything
- The importance of mental tenacity
- Your Dream, Not Your Mom’s. "To achieve your goals, you must be clear about what they are and why they are meaningful for you"
- Psychology Today on Happiness
- Myers-Briggs yourself! One of the most famous personality tests known to man.
- Productivity. A site dedicated to lifehacks (lifehack = any hacks, tips and tricks that get things done quickly by automating, increase productivity and organizing.)
- TED dot com. Smart people making thoughtful speeches. (We’ve already linked directly to a bunch of TED Talks… but what the hey! Take a gander for yourself!)
- General personal development by that guy who finished college in 3 semesters… (he must know a thing or 2…!)
- Time, Attention, Creative Work.
- Schedule reminder calls on the web. It couldn't be simpler.
- Generation Next: A Vision Of Students Today
- Local leadership for change! Creating change in the world by changing the way we see ourselves in the world.
- Trust your heart that the dots will connect; stay hungry, stay foolish:
- Be Change: make aware, enable, empower
- "To achieve your goals, you must be clear about what they are and why they are meaningful for you"
- Creative, local solutions to global challenges. A rural community transformed
- Best. Advice. Ever.
This is a collaborative project and we would love your input! Do you know of an inspiring resource to add to this section? Please, share it with us!
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