Another semester has come to a close, and with it some (hopefully) better grades.

So what are you doing this summer? If you're like most students, you might benefit from this post I wrote a couple of years ago about how to spend your summer vacation. 

For me, there's no rest for the wicked... We've enjoyed a doubling of usage in each of the past three semesters, and I aim to keep that trend going for the fall. I'm sitting in the local Starbucks right now, enjoying a too-large coffee and thinking of more cool and useful things to do with College-Cram.

Enjoy your summer! 

Between wrapping up the spring semester and starting my summer "vacation" plans, I changed my profile page to include links to some of the most popular articles I've written over the years.

In case you hadn't seen them all, here they are:

• Best Ways to Cheat in College
• Seven Keys to Getting Better Grades
• How to Write a Killer Essay
• How to Take Good Notes
• How to Work with Word Problems
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• Seven Keys to Writing a Better Resume
• Seven Keys to Ace Your Next Job Interview
• Secret Behind Textbook Costs
• Finding a Holiday Job
• Giving an Oral Presentation
• How I Spent My Summer Vacation

Enjoy these, there are plenty more where they came from.
 

We get alot of students searching for homework help at our site, that are having trouble with algebra. Whether the textbook is confusing or they just need some extra help, we have a bunch of resources to help students get the homework help they need:

Try our resources and you'll find getting better grades in less time isn't that hard!

No, this isn't about Star Wars. We had some pretty serious thunderstorm activity pass through here early this morning with torrential rains, lightning strikes, tornados, and sporadic wind damage scattered throughout the area. While College-Cram is hosted by a major hosting company, unfortunately that company is located about 30 minutes north of us and was also caught in the same storm front.

The results, as some of you may have noticed, were some intermittent outages all day today.(I believe we were down about an hour total, in about four separate incidents.)

I applaud those of you who braved the elements and stuck with us, including Dzenana looking for Macroeconomics homework help on market equilibrium, and those who even managed to keep a sense of humor.  You're the real storm troopers.

A couple of years ago we translated our Periodic Table into a flash program for your cell phone, and posted it up on the Adobe website for free.

I ran across it this morning while running a Google search, and thought I'd post it here for you. Here is the Periodic Table for the cell phone.

Some of you have asked for an easier way to find out the latest buzz on the site -- the most recent blog posts, who's commenting on what, and the newest notebook entries. We've put together a way for you to easily keep up to date.

Just click on these links to get the latest buzz on blog posts, notebook entries, and member logins/communities.

All for you!

Professor Cram 

We have been working overtime lately to add in some of the top US documents in American history. As we are getting closer to the 2008 presidential elections a good knowledge of the founding documents becomes even more important for all citizens. Check out the latest additions to the The Federalist Papers.

Lorna, a UK student taking Spanish, created some vocabulary lists in her Notebook. We took those lists and made her flashcard Cramlets to help her study. (Check out her flashcards under LORNA, and our custom Cramlets under SPANISH.)

Want your own Cramlets to help you study for finals? Create your own Notebook entries and we'll take it from there!

College-Cram helps you get better grades in less time with our Create/Connect/Learn approach. Here's how Learn works:

•  Cramlets: Most online resources do a poor job of explaining topics, or end up explaining way too much. Our Cramlets focus on a single topic, letting you choose what you want to learn and when. Want an example? Try one of these:
• Periodic Table of elements
• Balance Sheet financial statement
• Factoring Trinomials tutorial
• Multi-Step Income Statement tutorial
  
  
• Search bar: Looking for help in a particular topic? Type it into the search bar above and find out what learning resources are available and who created them. You'll get Professor Cram's blog entries and Cramlets, plus icons for any other students or study groups that have resources that could help. For example, search for "Periodic Table" and you'll find Cramlets in Astronomy, Biology, Physics, and Chemistry. Below them are articles from Professor Cram plus suggested alternate tags below that.
  
  
• Tag cloud: Like the Search bar, click on any term in the tag cloud to find out what learning resources are available about that term, both from Professor Cram and from your fellow students. Be sure to tag your own creations well so other students can benefit from your wisdom too!

Just click here to sign up for free and start getting better grades faster with College-Cram.

College-Cram helps you get better grades in less time with our Create/Connect/Learn approach. Here's how Connect works:

• Search bar: Just type your interests into the search bar to find others that are interested in the same things. Search for "vegetarian" to see folks interested in a meat-free lifestyle, or for "Brian" to see who has that name.
• Study Groups: Also called Communities, these are collections of students interested in a topic or theme. For example, type "Astronomy" in the search bar to find users and groups, and click the Astronomy icon. At the top of the left-hand column you'll see a link to "Click here to join this community" (if you're logged in). Click it -- that's how easy it is to join up.
  
• Professor Cram's Study Groups: As a bonus, these groups have hundreds of Cramlets and tutorials in their notebooks. Once you've selected the group, just follow the "Notebook entries" link at the bottom of the left-hand column. Here are links to these groups so you can go join right away:
• Business
• Accounting
• Business Math
• Economics
• Finance
• Science
• Astronomy
• Biology
• Chemistry
• Physics
• Math
• Algebra
• Pre-Calculus
• Trigonometry
• Languages
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Other
• Mythology
• Trivia
  
• US Government
• World History
  
• Blog entries: Once you've joined a Study Group or community, you can start posting in its blog and commenting on others' posts. Just use the "Community blog" link on the left-hand column to get there.

Just click here to sign up for free and start getting better grades faster with College-Cram.