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Horla Varlan This week, the OCW Consortium is holding its annual meeting, celebrating 10 years of OpenCourseWare . The movement to make university-level content freely and openly available online began a decade ago, when the faculty at MIT agreed to put the materials from all 2,000 of the university’s courses on the Web.
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How to Write a Great Term Paper in One Evening | StudentHacks.org
If you’ve ever procrastinated like I have, you’ve probably had to research and write an entire term paper in one night. It’s not the ideal way to write, but I’ve been able to write some of my best papers during this time. I’m not sure if it’s the adrenaline or what, but writing things last minute seems to be the muse that I need. Anyway, if you ever find yourself staring at a blank word document at like 10 p.m. – and your paper is due the next day – this blog entry is just for you. I’ve included an approximate time length for each step below. These are just approximations that will obviously fluctuate with your particular assignment.