Personal finance knowledge on the cheap

There are some 30 free e-books up for download on Mint’s blog. The ebooks cover such topics such as banking, credit, retirement funds and making the right decisions  for your future. While some might say that the topics are a bit too much for college students, I say it’s never too early to know about these sort of things.

30 Free  eBooks To Learn Everything You Want To Know About Personal Finance – Mint.com (via Lifehacker)

Organize school life with mySchoolog

Do you remember those days back in grade school when you were made to use a school diary for homework. For all those who miss those days, mySchoolog is for you.

mySchoolog is a webservice which lets you organize your classes and schedules, make assignment and project to-do lists, letting you even take and store notes online. For all those who don’t carry a USB stick around for class, mySchoolog lets you store your all your school files, giving you 100 MB of storage. If you’re on the go, you can even access the service via your cellphone—provided that it runs on Symbian, of course (most Nokia phones). mySchoolog is still in beta.

Organize Your School Life Online

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Make-up Post: Freelancing Services and a Business Resource

It’s been a while since we’ve posted anything here and I apologize. To make up for it, I’m giving you guys three useful links and tools today. Read More…

The REAL Online Library

As much as I hate to say it, The One School Blograry isn’t a real library of books and authors. However, we are a library of links and articles and downloads, more apt, I believe, for our techie era. Instead of going to the library when faced with a school projects, students log straight into the web, looking up the topic on Google or Wikipedia. While this is all well and good, I do believe that books are still very much important and necessary in any research project.

University of Pennsylvania has merged these two realities–the dependence on digital content and the necessity of traditional book content– by offering their library up online. It has over 25,000 free books on every topic conceivable, searchable by topic, title or author. While the look of the website may not be so inviting, but hey, it does have 25,000 books.

The Online Books Page

Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative

Carnegie Mellon has free courses up for the taking in Statistics, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Economics, AND French. You don’t need to register to take advantage of this sweet, yet dorky deal.

Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University

53 FREE online HR courses by ERI

Don’t know how to handle your future employees? Don’t know what to put in your HR Manual? Fret no more. ERI Distance Learning Center has exactly 53 free online courses on Human Resources, all covering different aspects of it. Taking the courses are free but if you’d like to get accredited for taking it, there’s a $29 fee.

ERI Distance Learning Center

Conversational Mandarin, anyone?

For those who might be taking up Mandarin as their Foreign Language elective, you have to check out California State’s Website devoted to the language.

It seems pretty simple to use and understand, covering basic topics such as food, weather, addresses, datea and times. It seems like a really handy primer to have around.

Coversational Chinese Online

NYU serving up some free textbooks

New York University has several basic and intermediate textbooks up for access and/or download for Physics, Statistics and Advanced Mathematics subjects. While you may not be the type to read the entire thing for fun and leisure, they’re worth checking out for reference during your own Statistics and Physics projects.

Free online textbooks, videos, tutorials, lecture notes – NYU

Guy Kawasaki’s The Art of the Start

Guy Kawasaki, the famous author, entrepreneur and venture capitalist, has recently wrote a book on how to, basically, start a start up in his new book, The Art of the Start.

“Guy encourages entrepreneurs to make meaning, make mantra, and get going.  His brilliant FAQ’s (frequently avoided questions) will answer almost all your fears about starting a new business.”

Part of the book is available for free as a manifesto from ChangeThis.

ChangeThis :: The Art of the Start 

Stocks, Bonds and Retirement?!

CNN Money has an awesome primer on learning how to deal with your personal finance. They have 23 different lessons covering topics like investing in stocks and bonds to insurance to house purchasing to saving up for retirement. Be sure to check out the lessons on investing, debt and taxation!

Money 101 – Financial Advice & Lessons Made Easy by CNN Money