Category: Advice

An excellent personal statement basically sells who you are to the reader. When required to write a statement, many students are often at a loss and imagine it to be difficult. Unemployed professors cannot emphasize this enough: writing a personal statement is the simplest task of all. You need not research or read extensively to…

Delivering a perfect law paper is possible. At Unemployed professors we cannot emphasize enough the importance of understanding the requirements of the assignment. In general, the goal of a law essay is to show your grasp of the law and how it pans out in reality. The assignment is essentially an opportunity for you to…

Paraphrasing simply involves rewording a particular text, whether spoken or written and putting it in your own words while retaining the meaning. It is neither akin to a summary (where you restate but shorten someone’s words) nor quoting (where you use the original text word-for-word and use quotation marks). We have precise steps that you…

  Want to bag an A+ on your book report? No worries, Unemployed professors is here to help! Writing a book report often scares many students. The thought of poring through hundreds of pages just to write a 1000-word report seems like an unnecessarily arduous task. The key is to relax when facing such a…

    An argumentative essay is peculiar in the sense that it presents a persuasive debate about a subject area. It is distinct from a descriptive paper that merely regurgitates what has been taught or researched. Our profs at Unemployed Professors maintain that you will best understand what is required of you when writing a…

One of the first New Year’s resolutions that students abandon is the promise of healthy eating.  Indeed, as January progresses, and exams, essays, labs, and assignments mount, student vows to stick to whole foods and nourishing beverages are dismissed.  It is well-established that stress is a primary trigger for overnourishment.  Alternatively dubbed ‘stress eating’ or…

Whether it be Channing Tatum’s split from Jenna Dewan, Jennifer Aniston leaving Justin Theroux, or Johnny Depp dumping Amber Heard, stars always seem to be breaking up.  But celebrities aren’t the only ones who have trouble maintaining relationships in today’s faced-past society of instant gratification.  Longevity in relationships is especially fragile in environments susceptible to…

Plagiarism: Just the word has ended careers. Yet some of the most successful people in the world have plagiarized. They managed to beat TurnItIn – so maybe your professor’s dire warnings are overblown. Maybe the whole issue is more complicated than it sounds. Here are some of the top five plagiarizers and accused plagiarists –…

            If a college degree costs a fortune and sometimes has a questionable ROI, you might be tempted to forego school and play the lottery instead. Last week, the American Powerball lottery hit $440 million, which is enough to pay for four years of full tuition and room and board…

As students finalize their decision on the college that they will attend, begin the arduous process of making living arrangements, in conjunction to deciding on the materials that they will bring with them, they will be presented with an experience that some have yet to encounter –the financial aid process. Completing the Free Application for…

If the most important thing about college is networking, and talking to strangers is something you would maybe want to do if the only alternative was a root canal, then you may feel defeated and upset. But don’t despair! There are plenty of ways to network, even if you consider yourself awkward and shy (and,…