If you’re a student, this is probably about the time that you start realising that while your summer has been one big long party central rave fest (and don’t ever feel bad about that) it’s also been one big long absence of doing any work that’ll contribute towards you getting a degree at all whatsoever.
If you cast your mind back to May-ish you might remember your tutor giving you a little thing called a 'summer reading list' that was meant to prepare you for everything this next year’s going to bring. If you don’t remember this then don’t worry your pretty little head – you almost certainly aren't the only one.
But, just in case you’re starting to panic every time you go into ASDA and see the primary coloured 'back to school' signs then here’s a few apps you can equip your phone with - just so you at least feel like you've done *something. *Start as you mean to go on and all that.
Because you have none. This app is for computer rather than phone but it's really rather clever in the fact that it allows you to add certain sites to a 'blacklist' and it'll block you from them for a pre-determined amount of time. Which is great because we all know how hard it can be to concentrate on a philosophical essay when the Directioners have taken over Twitter and are baying for blood because someone wrote that Niall is/is not gay.
Are you one of those people who finds zoning out in lectures easier than actually listening? Funny how much of a difference 17 pints the night before can have on this isn’t it? Dragon Dictation will listen to your tutor for you and write down exactly what he or she is saying so you don’t even have to worry about taking notes. Which is just great. Maybe it could write our essays too?
Hey, we’re with you. 9AM lectures can be brutal. In fact they are brutal. Even though the rest of the world will already in be in work by then, the rest of the world didn’t spend the night before downing luminous shots and snogging the face off the captain of the rugby team did they? No they did not. This brutal app makes getting up really easy (although probably not very enjoyable) as the alarm won’t stop until you take a picture of the place in your house that you’ve ‘registered’. No word on what happens if you wake up at said rugby player’s house and find you’re roughly 3 miles from your ‘registered’ place.
Fellow essay writers. Is there anything in the entire world that’s worse than getting your bibiliography and references in order? Hells no. Fuck no. It’s the worst. The absolute worst. Easy Bib is basically your ticket out of said hell – it scans the barcode of your book and writes out the reference for you. I mean is that great or is that great? Thank us later.
Remember at school when you didn’t actually read Of Mice And Men and instead read the internet summary on Cliffs Notes? Yeah, now they’re all on an app. And while we wouldn’t recommend reading the Cliffs Notes instead of books you’re going to write your dissertation on, they might be handy for those morning you head into seminars without even having opened the book it’s on. Es[ecaiilly when you’ve got one of those tutors that like to pick on people. Dicks.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.