Lab safety

Several laboratory  rules that students shouldn’t forget: Always use your common sense and always behave responsibly, especially when conducting dangerous experiments. Follow the directions and your teacher’s instructions. make sure that you understand everything before you even begin. Never touch anything that does not have anything to do with what you are doing. Keep personal...

Be more active

You think that the life of a student sucks? Well, think again. In a few years you’ll be in the “real world” wishing you were students again. Give yourself a favor and take advantage of your youth. Be more productive students! 1. Make school life a buffet. Taste-test! I’m talking about extra-curricular organizations here. Get a list of all your school’s clubs and...

What to do when your PC slows down

PC speed like a turtle? Any one of these might be the culprit: 1. You might have too many programs that load up when you start your computer. Verify if some of the software are programmed to run at start-up. Try to configure these programs so that they run only when you click their icon – and that is when you need them. 2. This is related to the one above. Your PC may have too many...

When your A child suddenly fails

If your child has been getting decent, if not A-1 grades, and suddenly flunks more than once, then something must be seriously wrong with your child. This might be a sign of something very important, and as parents you should try to investigate what made this sudden grade drop to happen. 1. Has there been a death in the family? Separation? You see, children’s emotions are quite fragile some...

What is spoof e-mail?

And you think it only happens on TV! But yes, apparently there are some people who think spoofing e-mails are not only funny- but profitable as well. A spoof e-mail is an e-mail that seems to have come from an official channel (i.e. PayPal, E_bay) but is actually spam. It’s like an electronic forgery of well-known companies’ e-mails to customers and clients. There are two kinds of...