Textbooks can be surprisingly expensive for many students.  The problem is made worse by university professors who publish their own textbooks and require their students to buy them to drive sales.  Worse still, they may come out with new versions of the book every few years that contains little new content but entirely different page [...]

The essay below is from an actual student who applied and was accepted to NYU. Even if you decide to do something a bit more tame, I think there are a few very important points we can glean from this essay: You need to envision the person reading these essays.  They have a huge stack [...]

In the past we’ve only allowed current university students to become tutors on UniversityTutor.com and it has created some issues (to put it mildly). For example: We verify enrollment by asking students to enter their .edu email address.  But some universities only issue .edu emails to faculty, not students. Some schools issue student emails under [...]

We launched a new feature on UniversityTutor.com recently: map based searching of tutors! This is using Google Maps technology underneath to integrate with the tutor database. Hopefully it will make it much faster and easier for people to find nearby tutors. Check out the screenshot below or click here to try it for yourself: We [...]

When the term evolution is brought up, people automatically think about Charles Darwin and his theory of natural selection. Indeed, it is quite a powerful theory that has triumphed over all the other theories of evolution. However, back in the day when evolution was a hotly debated topic, Lamarck’s theory of use and disuse put [...]

If you have some interesting insights into school, productivity, getting better grades, or a particular subject where you excel – then we’d like to hear from you!  You may be a tutor, parents, student, etc. We’re accepting applicants right now for contributing authors who would be able to post to this blog about once a [...]

See if you are making some of these common mistakes in your writing, and try to remember these simple tricks to avoid them! #1: Loose for lose The ball came loose when the quarterback got sacked, but they didn’t lose the game. #2: It’s for its (or god forbid, its’) It’s just means “it is”.  [...]

If you have a ton of homework to get done (espcially in a class that isn’t very fun), it can be tempting to drag your feet before getting started. Our brains are great at inventing little tasks to fill time when we want to avoid doing something.  Sure, I’ll just check some emails, chat a [...]

Did you know that Google can convert almost any unit for you?  Metric, standard, measurements, volumes, weights, time, you name it… This can help you with science homework (and even some other things like cooking or calculating large numbers).  Just type it in and see what happens.  Here are a few examples… That last one [...]

This is pretty neat.  I’ve been working on getting all the tutor data into Google Maps so that when people do searches there, our tutors will come up! The image below gives you a rough idea of the wide range of tutors we have signed up now, and it will only continue to grow.  Click [...]