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Welcome to the online home of Youthink PS, Western Canada's Post-Secondary resource guide for high school students considering enrollment at one of Canada's colleges, universities, polytechnics or trade schools. If you arrived here via Youthink.ca, please note that we are no longer publishing the regular six-times-per-year Youthink publication, but will continue with the Post-Secondary version, which comes out twice per year. Our Youthink team would like to sincerely thank all of the many students, teachers and friends who supported the magazine over the years, and encourage you to pick up Youthink PS, which is for continuing learners. Youthink PS is an excellent resource for academic planning, and you can find it HERE. You can also pick up a copy from over 400 high schools, convenience stores and community centres (80,000 copies) across B.C. and Alberta each February and September. Good luck in your future!

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The Top 75 ‘Pictures of the Day' for 2012 *Update: The Top 100 ‘Pictures of the Day’ for 2012 have just been published. Click here to check out the most up-to-date post! After the positive reception from last year’s “Top 50 ‘Pictures of the Day’ for 2011“, the Sifter promised to highlight the top 25 ‘Pictures of the Day‘ at the end of every quarter, eventually culminating in an epic Top 100 for 2012. It’s hard to believe we’re already into the final quarter of 2012. With that, here are the Sifter’s Top 75 ‘Pictures of the Day‘ for this year.

100 Time-Saving Search Engines for Serious Scholars While burying yourself in the stacks at the library is one way to get some serious research done, with today’s technology you can do quite a bit of useful searching before you ever set foot inside a library. Undergraduates and grad students alike will appreciate the usefulness of these search engines that allow them to find books, journal articles and even primary source material for whatever kind of research they’re working on and that return only serious, academic results so time isn’t wasted on unprofessional resources. Note: Visit our updated list for the latest in academic search engines. General Start off your research with one of these more general academic search engines.

5 Ways to Give Yourself an Education That Kicks the Crap Out of the One You Got in School 5 Ways to Give Yourself an Education That Kicks the Crap Out of the One You Got in School One of the biggest reasons that people are denied the privilege of education is because they can’t afford it. However, today we live in a world where knowledge and information are at our finger tips like never before. Technology has leveled the playing field so that anybody with an interest and an internet connection can receive a world class education.

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