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Running College Info Geek has become a pretty complex job. Aside from constantly fielding calls from governments around the world who mistake us for superheroes (it’s an easy mistake to make, I know), there are a lot of tasks we each juggle during any given week. For my part, I’ve got videos to script, film, […]
Did you know that broccoli is actually toxic? It’s true; every time you eat one of those delicious little trees, you’re subjecting your body to a small amount of toxicity. Oddly enough, though, that’s a It’s one of the reasons that broccoli is a “healthy” food. You see, our bodies and minds have adapted to the harsh […]
Maybe you felt confident walking into the testing room. Or maybe you knew your chances were slimmer than the villain in after he gets squashed by the steamroller. Either way, you failed a test. Let’s talk about how to bounce back from that failure. In my mind, everything I’m going to talk about in this article […]
Hey guys! I’m massively excited about this episode and want to let you jump right in, so I’ll make this summary brief; today I have the huge honor of talking with Arne Duncan, the U.S. Secretary of Education, on the podcast. Secretary Duncan’s main message throughout our conversation? Graduate, graduate, graduate. He is laser-focused on […]
Today we’re wrapping up my two-episode mini-series on my video creation process (here’s the first), and I’ll be walking you through how I actually edit my videos and get them up on YouTube. Editing starts with a couple of preliminary passes where I chop up the footage, sync the audio, and remove bad takes. After […]
What do you do when you’re going into your 4th year of college – and then you school tells you the rest of your classes are unavailable? You test out of them, save thousands of dollars, and graduate a semester early – that’s what you do. Or, at least, that’s what my friend Jay Cross […]
I have friends who almost never let themselves do the fun things they want to do during the semester. They’ll talk about how much they want to play a certain game or watch a new movie, but when I suggest that they just go play it, they’ll say: “I really can’t; I have way too […]
How do you take a long, sorta-ok paper and make it great? Well, your writing should be good at first. After that, though, it’s all in the editing. In this episode, you’ll get some tips on editing your papers well from my friend James Ranson. James has an undergraduate degree in English and a Master’s in Arts […]
One of my main goals here at College Info Geek is to help students understand their student loans and pay them off as quickly as possible. Stephanie Halligan has both of these skills on lock. As the founder of The Empowered Dollar, Stephanie is one of the most entertaining personal finance writers on the internet, […]
How do people in awesome, fulfilling careers get to where they are? If you listen to most of the voices in the career advice space these days, the prevailing idea you’ll hear is probably: “Follow your passion!” To me, this “just do what you love” idea’s popularity is analogous to the French Revolution; it’s a […]