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  • guyfalling_smaller How to ace your midterms the easy way

    A list of seven tips that are guaranteed to help you succeed on your midterms without cutting into your vastly more important social life.

  • lockyourcredit Preventing Identity Theft

    Tips and trick to help prevent identity theft.

  • springflower Start planning for spring break

    Tips and tricks for a successful spring break.

  • cloudtransfer 'Megatrouble' for Megaupload

    U.S. Courts are currently attempting to extradite Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom. Dotcom was arrested on January 20, after U.S. prosecutors alleged that Megaupload was used primarily for pirating copyrighted material.

  • buster Getting to know My Parkland College

    Through the website My Parkland College, students can manage nearly every aspect of their college careers.

  • What Google knows about you

    It knows what you've looked for on its search engine. It knows who you're e-mailing most regularly via Gmail. It knows from Google Calendar what you have going on today.

  • Psychologists Psychologists debate social media role in suicide interventions

    In her sophomore year at Lake Forest College, Sam Sekulich had reached a breaking point. On top of the pressure she felt from classes and student clubs, she was fighting with her parents and not consistently taking medication for her bipolar disorder.

  • DrDean Famous African-Americans in technology

    Buster commemorates influential African Americans in the history of technology.

  • smart phone Table text: Diners can’t do without their smartphones

    Like an analog world-munching Pac-Man, the modern smartphone has morphed into instant messenger, mailbox, camera, flashlight, computer, map, dictionary, newspaper, personal assistant and social media portal.

  • SOPA SOPA, PIPA shelved after protests

    Both SOPA and PIPA were postponed indefinitely on January 20 in the wake of the largest online protest in history. Website blackouts by online-encyclopedia giant Wikipedia and other sites led to hundreds of thousands of emails to members of Congress.

  • homework help Homework help is good business

    Helping students with their homework, it turns out, can be big business. That's how Advanced Instructional Systems has quietly become one of N.C. State University's largest and fastest-growing spin-offs.

  • his mission His mission: Give young men vision

    DETROIT - Edmund Lewis never gave any thought to going to college. Growing up, his grades were mediocre. Mostly, he hung out with friends, acting as if he didn't care about anything. He ran track for his high school team in rural North Carolina. That's what young black boys did, he thought, never having had a father figure to talk with about what he could - and should - aspire to do.

  • In demand Ask Buster: Buster answers reader email

    Buster answers reader email.

  • Q&A with the Student Government President

    Students at parkland ask questions to the student government president.

  • SOPA Stop Online Piracy Act

    Supporters of the congressional bill known as the Stop Online Piracy Act maintain that its intent is to fight the theft of copyrighted intellectual material, but its opponents believe that it amounts to internet censorship.

  • study myths Common student study myths

    With the end of the fall semester nearly here and finals staring students right in the face, many at Parkland are scrambling to cram in that last portion of study time. Suddenly, all-night study sessions fueled by excessive caffeine intake become commonplace.

  • Seasonal work Students prepare for return to seasonal work

    As fall gradually gives way to the winter season, certain events occur like clockwork. Apart from the weather becoming harsher, consumer spending invariably increases in tandem with the Holidays

  • Nook Kindle or Nook?

    With the shopping season already underway, it's the perfect time to decide which tablet computer you're going to ask Santa to bring you for Christmas. For those whose "Santa" is not likely to shell out the five hundred dollars or more for an iPad or one of it's Android competitors, there's good news.

  • Parkland Wi-Fi Department of Campus Technology plans to improve Wi-Fi

    Have you been having difficulty logging in to Parkland's Wi-Fi connection from your laptop, smartphone or other device? When you do get on, is your connection slow? Do you have trouble downloading or streaming video? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you are not alone.

  • Macy's The history behind the Thanksgiving Day Parade

    What do you get when you have 800 clowns, 1600 cheerleaders and 50 million viewers? The 85th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, of course. Watching the parade on Thanksgiving morning is a tradition for countless families, although many no longer get up early to watch it.