“The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.”
— Confucius
Here are a list of 10, free apps that can help you organize, study, and strive for higher grades
1.) Focus Now This app has really helped me focus and stay on task. It helps eliminate your bad habits and encourages you to develop desirable habits instead. By using a timer, this app forces you to put down your phone in the allotted time you’ve requested while you plant a plant/tree in your farm. If you go on your phone, you kill the plant. This habit building game sounds slightly cheesy, but it really does help and I definitely recommend this app. I also know Focus Timer is a good habit developer app as well that tracks your progress and the hours you have spent studying.
2.) Maths Alarm Clock If you are not a morning person like me and you have a fairly difficult time to get up, this app is perfect. With its super annoying alarm, it demands you to do a math problem in order for the alarm to stop. This way, your brain wakes up and plus you get extra practice at math! You will hate this app in the morning, but it gets the job done and that’s what matters.
3.) Calculator # I always forget my calculator in my locker and this app has saved my math grade. It provides users a no cost, scientific calculator. You honestly cant go wrong with this.
4.) Flashcards+ Being unorganized ( in the process of fixing this ), I tend to lose my flashcards. When upcoming, cumulative tests come up, this bites me in the butt. This app allows people to create flashcard decks and allows you to customize them by inserting pictures which can really help visual learners. Plus, typing out flashcards take little amount of time in comparison to hand writing them. However, if you find that you learn more effectively by writing down things, then stick with that! Just make sure you don’t lose the notecards.
5.) Quizlet This app is slightly similar to Flashcards +1, but it introduces more features.Unlike Flashcards+, you can play games on the topic you are studying, making it more fun to learn. You can also share and find notecards with your peers.
6.) Khan Academy The founder of Khan Academy literally deserves 3841481 medals. With thousands of videos dedicated towards chemistry, math, biology, physics, etc, Khan Academy has helped me understand so many concepts that I could not grasp. He explains the concepts in great detail while making it easy to understand and follow and I can’t even put to words on how much I love Khan Academy.
7.) Photo Math If you’re stumped on a math problem in your textbook, take a picture of the math problem you are stuck on and Photo Math will grant you a step by step guidance on how to get the answer. DON’T JUST COPY DOWN THE STEPS, ACTUALLY KNOW WHY AND HOW THEY GOT TO THE ANSWER. If you just copy it down, then you did not learn anything and you’ll get the problem wrong again when it appears on a test and that is not very ideal.
8.) Gojimo Gojimp provides thousands of practice AP tests, SAT Test Preps, ACT Test Preps, and tons of other tests for students! AND ITS FREE!! The app supplies free quizzes that give detailed, thorough explanations too.
9.) Vocabulary Builder from Magoosh If you’re interested in expanding your vocabulary, you will love this app. Vocabulary Builder is great for preparing for the SATS!
10.) Todoist If you’re in desperate need for a planner, then Todoist is gonna be a lifesaver for you. Todoist encourages users to manage their tasks with their simple working app. It’s perfect for organization and increasing productivity. c:
I hope this helped!!
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{11/06/16 04:10 pm}
ap psych, macbeth, and a few flowers to make the day a little brighter :)
sorry for being inactive for so long, applying for college is stressful !!!
Hey friends! Plenty of stores offer great discounts for college students, and all you need is your Student ID! Here’s a list for you:
Arby’s 10% off of your purchase with a valid Student ID
Burger King 10% off of your total purchase with a valid Student ID
Chick-Fil-A Free drink with a valid Student ID
Chipotle Free drink with a valid Student ID
Dairy Queen 10% off of your total purchase with a valid Student ID
Domino’s Discounts vary by location (I can tell you from personal experience that the one near my college has amazing discounts)
Firehouse Subs 10% off of your order (if your school has a partnership)
Kroger 5% off your purchase off food items
Papa John’s Discounts vary by location
Pizza Hut 10-20% off of your purchase (depending on location)
Qdoba $5 student burrito meals
Subway 10% off of your total purchase with a valid Student ID
Waffle House 10% off of your total purchase with a valid Student ID
Ann Taylor 20% off your purchase will a valid Student ID
ASOS 10% off of your online purchase
Banana Republic Save 15% off of any in-store purchase when you show your valid student ID
Charlotte Russe Students can get a 10% discount on all merchandise (at participating locations)
J.Crew Save 15% off of any in-store purchase when you show your valid student ID
Levi’s 15% off online orders for US students
The Limited 15% off of in-store purchases with a valid Student ID
Medelita Pre-med and current medical students and residents receive varying discounts
Adobe Students get a discount on certain software
Apple Save up to $200 on a new Mac + education pricing on many items
Dell Students receive discounts on certain products
HP Students receive education pricing on PCs
Lenovo Students (and faculty) receive discounts on PCs and laptops
Microsoft Students can receive Microsoft Office for free
Norton Students can receive up to 50% discounts on certain products
Sony Students can receive up to a 10% discount
Spotify Students can purchase Spotify premium for $4.99 per month (50% off of the normal price)
AMC Theaters On Thursdays, students receive discounted movie tickets
Carnegie Hall Students pay only $10 for select performances
Cinemark Offers students discounted movie tickets with a valid Student ID
Madame Tussaud’s Receive 15% off at American locations
Museum of Modern Art, NY Full-time students at New York universities receive one free admission per visit
Regal Theaters Discounts vary by location
Eurail People 25 years old or younger get 35% off of the adult price
Greyhound Students can save 20% on travel fares
Rail Europe Discounts available for people 26 years old or younger
STA Created to help students find discounts on travel
Amazon Free 2 day shipping for 6 months + discounted Amazon Prime
FedEx Save 30% on documents and 20% on packages
JiffyLube $10 towards your purchase or 10% off
JoAnn Fabrics Save 10% on all purchases + 2 coupons (this is for both high school and college students)
Sam’s Club Sign up for the discounted membership and receive an instant $15 dollar gift card + savings on college supplies
Disclaimer: These discounts may not be available at all locations
Happy Saving! ~Morgan
today after my AP exam all I did was walk around my house in underwear and a bathrobe with a tub of ice cream and take a nap
if that doesn’t describe what it’s like to be an AP student I don’t know what does
i noticed y’all have been enjoying my novel masterposts. so im just going to keep posting because im obsessed with books like that T.T
for my study-like-rory studyblr friends who want to read all the books mentioned in gilmore girls (because hello?? who doesn’t??), here’s a list! pls let me know if i missed a book, but i think it’s quite a complete list! enjoy!!
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1984 – George Orwell
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay – Michael Chabon
An American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser
Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
Archidamian War – Donald Kagen
The Art of Fiction – Henry James
The Art of War – Sun Tzu
As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
Atonement – Ian McEwan
The Awakening – Kate Chopin
Autobiography of a Face – Lucy Grealy
B
Babe – Dick King-Smith
Backlash – Susan Faludi
Balzac & the Little Chinese Seamstress – Dai Sijie
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
Beloved – Toni Morrison
Beowulf – Seamus Heaney
The Bhagava Gita
The Bielski Brothers – Peter Duffy
Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women – Elizabeth Wurtzel
A Bolt From the Blue & other Essays – Mary McCarthy
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Brick Lane – Monica Ali
Brigadoon – Alan Jay Lerner
C
Candide – Voltaire
The Canterbury Tales – Chaucer
Carrie –Stephen King
Catch – 22 – Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
The Celebrated Jumping Frog – Mark Twain
Charlotte’s Web – EB White
The Children’s Hour – Lilian Hellman
Christine – Stephen King
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
The Code of the Woosters – PG Wodehouse
The Collected Short Stories – Eudora Welty
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
A Comedy of Errors – William Shakespeare
Complete Novels – Dawn Powell
The Complete Poems – Anne Sexton
Complete Stories – Dorothy Parker
A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
Cousin Bette – Honore de Balzac
Crime & Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Crimson Petal & the White – Michael Faber
The Crucible – Arthur Miller
Cujo – Stephen King
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime – Mark Haddon
D
Daughter of Fortune – Isabel Allende
David and Lisa – Dr. Theodore Issac Rubin
David Coperfield – Charles Dickens
The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
Deal Souls – Nikolai Gogol (Season 3, episode 3)
Demons – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
Deenie – Judy Blume
The Devil in the White City – Erik Larson
The Dirt – Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mark, & Nikki Sixx
The Divine Comedy – Dante
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood – Rebecca Wells
Don Quijote – Cervantes
Driving Miss Daisy – Alfred Uhrv
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
E
Complete Tales & Poems – Edgar Allan Poe
Eleanor Roosevelt – Blanche Wiesen Cook
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
Ella Minnow Pea – Mark Dunn
Eloise – Kay Thompson
Emily the Strange – Roger Reger
Emma – Jane Austen
Empire Falls – Richard Russo
Encyclopedia Brown – Donald J. Sobol
Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
Ethics – Spinoza
Eva Luna – Isabel Allende
Everything is Illuminated – Jonathon Safran Foer
Extravagance – Gary Kist
F
Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 911 – Michael Moore
The Fall of the Athenian Empire – Donald Kagan
Fat Land:How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World – Greg Critser
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
The Fellowship of the Ring – J R R Tolkien
Fiddler on the Roof – Joseph Stein
The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
Finnegan’s Wake – James Joyce
Fletch – Gregory McDonald
Flowers of Algernon – Daniel Keyes
The Fortress of Solitude – Jonathon Lethem
The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
Franny and Zooey – JD Salinger
Freaky Friday – Mary Rodgers
G
Galapagos – Kurt Vonnegut
Gender Trouble – Judith Baker
George W. Bushism – Jacob Weisberg
Gidget – Fredrick Kohner
Girl, Interrupted – Susanna Kaysen
The Ghostic Gospels – Elaine Pagels
The Godfather – Mario Puzo
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
Goldilocks & the Three Bears – Alvin Granowsky
Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
The Good Soldier – Ford Maddox Ford
The Gospel According to Judy Bloom
The Graduate – Charles Webb
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
The Group – Mary McCarthy
H
Hamlet – Shakespeare
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – JK Rowling
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – Dave Eggers
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
Helter Skelter – Vincent Bugliosi
Henry IV, Part 1 – Shakespeare
Henry IV, Part 2 – Shakespeare
Henry V – Shakespeare
High Fidelity – Nick Hornby
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – Edward Gibbons
Holidays on Ice – David Sedaris
The Holy Barbarians – Lawrence Lipton
House of Sand and Fog – Andre Dubus III
The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
How to Breathe Underwater – Julie Orringer
How the Grinch Stole Christmas – Dr. Seuss
How the Light Gets In – MJ Hyland
Howl – Alan Ginsburg
The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
I
The Illiad – Homer
I’m With the Band – Pamela des Barres
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
Inferno – Dante
Inherit the Wind – Jerome Lawrence & Robert E Lee
Iron Weed – William J. Kennedy
It Takes a Village – Hilary Clinton
J
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
Julius Caesar – Shakespeare
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
Just a Couple of Days – Tony Vigorito
K
The Kitchen Boy – Robert Alexander
Kitchen Confidential – Anthony Bourdain
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
L
Lady Chatterley’s Lover – DH Lawrence
The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 – Gore Vidal
Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
The Legend of Bagger Vance – Steven Pressfield
Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
Letters to a Young Poet – Rainer Maria Rilke
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them – Al Franken
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Little Dorrit – Charles Dickens
The Little Locksmith – Katharine Butler Hathaway
The Little Match Girl – Hans Christian Anderson
Little Woman – Louisa May Alcott
Living History – Hillary Clinton
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
The Lottery & Other Stories – Shirley Jackson
The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
The Love Story – Eric Segal
M
Macbeth – Shakespeare
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
The Manticore – Robertson Davies (Season 3, episode 3)
Marathon Man – William Goldman
The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
Memoirs of Dutiful Daughter – Simone de Beauvoir
Memoirs of General WT Sherman – William Tecumseh Sherman
Me Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris
The Meaning of Consuelo – Judith Ortiz Cofer
Mencken’s Chrestomathy – HR Mencken
The Merry Wives of Windsor – Shakespeare
The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
The Miracle Worker – William Gibson
Moby Dick – Herman Melville
The Mojo Collection – Jim Irvin
Moliere – Hobart Chatfield Taylor
A Monetary History of the US – Milton Friedman
Monsieur Proust – Celeste Albaret
A Month of Sundays – Julie Mars
A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway
Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
Mutiny on the Bounty – Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall
My Lai 4 – Seymour M Hersh
My Life as Author and Editor – HR Mencken
My Life in Orange – Tim Guest
My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
N
The Naked and the Dead – Norman Mailer
The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
The Nanny Diaries – Emma McLaughlin
Nervous System – Jan Lars Jensen
New Poems of Emily Dickinson
The New Way Things Work – David Macaulay
Nickel and Dimed – Barbara Ehrenreich
Night – Elie Wiesel
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
The Norton Anthology of Theory & Criticism – William E Cain
Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell
Notes of a Dirty Old Man – Charles Bukowski
O
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Old School – Tobias Wolff
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
On the Road – Jack Keruac
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life – Amy Tan
Oracle Night – Paul Auster
Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood
Othello – Shakespeare
Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War – Donald Kagan
Out of Africa – Isac Dineson
The Outsiders – S. E. Hinton
P
A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition – Donald Kagan
The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
Peyton Place – Grace Metalious
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
Pigs at the Trough – Arianna Huffington
Pinocchio – Carlo Collodi
Please Kill Me – Legs McNeil & Gilliam McCain
The Polysyllabic Spree – Nick Hornby
The Portable Dorothy Parker
The Portable Nietzche
The Price of Loyalty – Ron Suskind
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Property – Valerie Martin
Pushkin – TJ Binyon
Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw
Q
Quattrocento – James McKean
A Quiet Storm – Rachel Howzell Hall
R
Rapunzel – Grimm Brothers
The Razor’s Edge – W Somerset Maugham
Reading Lolita in Tehran – Azar Nafisi
Rebecca – Daphne de Maurier
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm – Kate Douglas Wiggin
The Red Tent – Anita Diamant
Rescuing Patty Hearst – Virginia Holman
The Return of the King – JRR Tolkien
R is for Ricochet – Sue Grafton
Rita Hayworth – Stephen King
Robert’s Rules of Order – Henry Robert
Roman Fever – Edith Wharton
Romeo and Juliet – Shakespeare
A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
A Room with a View – EM Forster
Rosemary’s Baby – Ira Levin
The Rough Guide to Europe
S
Sacred Time – Ursula Hegi
Sanctuary – William Faulkner
Savage Beauty – Nancy Milford
Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller – Henry James
The Scarecrow of Oz – Frank L. Baum
The Scarlet Letter – Nathanial Hawthorne
Seabiscuit – Laura Hillenbrand
The Second Sex – Simone de Beauvior
The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
Secrets of the Flesh – Judith Thurman
Selected Letters of Dawn Powell (1913-1965)
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
A Separate Place – John Knowles
Several Biographies of Winston Churchill
Sexus – Henry Miller
The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafron
Shane – Jack Shaefer
The Shining – Stephen King
Siddartha – Hermann Hesse
S is for Silence – Sue Grafton
Slaughter-House 5 – Kurt Vonnegut
Small Island – Andrea Levy
Snows of Kilamanjaro – Ernest Hemingway
Snow White and Red Rose – Grimm Brothers
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy – Barrington Moore
The Song of Names – Norman Lebrecht
Song of the Simple Truth – Julia de Burgos
The Song Reader – Lisa Tucker
Songbook – Nick Hornby
The Sonnets – Shakespeare
Sonnets from the Portuegese – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sophie’s Choice – William Styron
The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
Speak, Memory – Vladimir Nabakov
Stiff, The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers – Mary Roach
The Story of my Life – Helen Keller
A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams
Stuart Little – EB White
Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
Swann’s Way – Marcel Proust
Swimming with Giants – Anne Collett
Sybil – Flora Rheta Schreiber
T
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Tender is the Night – F Scott Fitzgerald
Term of Endearment – Larry McMurty
Time and Again – Jack Finney
The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffeneggar
To Have and to Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
The Tragedy of Richard III – Shakespeare
Travel and Motoring through Europe – Myra Waldo
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
The Trial – Franz Kafka
The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters – Elisabeth Robinson
Truth & Beauty – Ann Patchett
Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom
U
Ulysses – James Joyce
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (1950-1962)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
Unless – Carol Shields
V
Valley of the Dolls – Jacqueline Susann
The Vanishing Newspaper – Philip Meyers
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
Velvet Underground – Joe Harvard
The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
W
Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett
Walden – Henry David Thoreau
Walt Disney’s Bambi – Felix Salten
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
We Owe You Nothing – Daniel Sinker
What Colour is Your Parachute – Richard Nelson Bolles
What Happened to Baby Jane – Henry Farrell
When the Emperor Was Divine – Julie Otsuka
Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee
Wicked – Gregory Maguire
The Wizard of Oz – Frank L Baum
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
Y
The Yearling – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion
OTHER RESOURCES
20th Century Novels Masterpost
21st Century Novels Masterpost
Rory Gilmore’s Reading List
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