Since fall semester is close to an end, many students have started thinking about another round of books for the classes they have chosen.
Many think about the amount that is overpaid, which may or may not actually need to be purchased in the long term. Before considering paying an incredible amount of money for a piece of literature, I would recommend you to do something that can make you save some bucks.
Here’s how it works:
1) Download “Occupy the Bookstore” from the Chrome extension store. Don’t worry, this is free.
2) Go to the Lake Forest Online Bookstore.
3) Find the books you need for your course. On the left side of the screen, you should see a list of other college book websites that rent out books. They will be listed from the least amount of money to the most and it includes the shipping! Do you need to buy the book rather than rent it? Click the buy tab. Easy as that.
This is a must-have extension for any college student; so don’t be afraid to share the love of saving cash. Ten out of 10 Lake Forest College students who know about the app said they would not use any other way of finding their textbooks in the future. Since this is a free extension, the generous person who created it has saved college students hundreds of dollars.
As college students, we use laptops a lot, whether it’s shopping online, watching Youtube videos, listening to music, going on social media, or creating documents on Word or Excel. If you think about it, all these activities consume the life of our laptops daily. Since they use lots of battery and RAM memory, an active hard drive that keeps all applications open such as Chrome, iTunes, and Spotify, our computers will suffer the aftermath of excessive habit. There is a multitasking extension called “The Great Suspender.”
This extension allows you to have as many Chrome tabs open as you want and it will not kill the battery or slow down your computer. It freezes the tab that has not been used in the longest amount of time and stops it from using up as much of your RAM. Therefore, this extension allows the battery to keep the tabs open but it saves everything on the page. When you return to the page, you can click “refresh” and the tab will come back to life, exactly where you left it off. Now everyone can afford a laptop that can keep seven chrome tabs open at once. “My laptop is basically an iMac now,” says Clay Dreier ’18.
