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Congratulations! You are going to college.

Congratulations! You're going to college. You've worked hard to earn the four exciting years ahead of you. You're guaranteed a whirlwind of exhilaration, exaltation, and "I-probably-should-have- considered-what-that-would-feel-like-in-the-morning." At this point, I'm going to assume you've already made your final decision.

We're not going to talk about vocabulary building, sentence corrections, essay writing, ratios, deviations, or the exponents just yet. Let's step back for a minute: put down your pencil, close the test booklet, and turn over the answer sheet. Slouch back in your seat, sip on your Poland Spring, and just relax.

Using primary sources: A guide to writing history

I. Why Primary Sources? When Wikipedia Will No Longer Cut It. We've all done it. Increasing margins, increasing line spacing, increasing font size. I personally memorized all of the standard fonts in size-order: Times New Roman on the small end, and beautiful Arial and Helvetica on the large. Anything to avoid writing the assignment due.