Archive | November, 2008

Black Friday Deals for Student Gear

By on November 27, 2008

While Black Friday is mostly a time for buying gifts for the holidays, it’s also a great time to buy gear you’ll need for school at a huge discount.  Items such as laptops, backpacks and software all see some nice discounts on this huge shopping day.   We’ve scoured the web for some of the great [...]

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AT&T Student Discount

By on November 22, 2008

Everyone these days has a cell phone, in fact if you’re a student you’re much more likely to have a mobile phone than a landline.  So if you’ve been searching for ways to get student discounts on your phone bill and data plan, you’re in luck if you use AT&T and attend a university that [...]

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HP Mini 1000 Review

By on November 17, 2008

The HP Mini 1000 is the first consumer focused netbook from HP and enters a market that is becoming more and more crowded by the day.  I recently reviewed the Acer Aspire One netbook to take a look at the feasibility of using it as a student notebook and here we are today taking a [...]

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Renting Textbooks to Save Money

By on November 14, 2008

Many of us have been watching news about the state of economic affairs and prices of oil and stocks falling, but the price of textbooks unfortunately will not be dropping.  They will continue the persistent march upward in price.  So what’s a student to do to get around the costs of buying a $100 (or [...]

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