Category: Advice

  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,…

Of course, the best extracurricular activity to improve your chances at a job is an actual job, but when you can’t, or when you want to stay on campus, it’s important to pick extracurricular activities that will pay off in terms of fun, resume building, or network building. But when you’re walking the cafeteria tables…

How to Deal Writer’s Block: Tips from Unemployed Professors If you have writer’s block, you might feel like you have nothing to say. You might barely be able to get your fingers to move on the keyboard. All you can think about is the deadline and the clock ticking ever forward. What should you do…

So, you’ve graduated. Congratulations! You have a diploma, at least three copies of Oh the Places You’ll Go, and a wrenching hangover. How do you become a financial grown-up when you couldn’t even keep enough money in your meal plan to get a pizza at the end of the semester? These five money moves are…

How do we do it? How do we at Unemployed Professors manage to produce so many top-quality research papers in so little time? The answer is that we each have our own method that is designed to create efficiencies while not compromising on quality. Although there is no single right way of producing a professional…

The essence of writing a research paper is engaging critically with a particular scholarly debate and making an original intervention of some kind. Key to writing a top-quality research paper, therefore, is making sure that you draw upon and critically evaluate the right sources. This involves two stages: Finding Credible Sources The sources you use…

Despite the fact that most university assessments take the form of essay writing, relatively few professors bother to explain the fundamentals of essay writing to their students. As a result, the same mistakes tend to recur in students’ essays. Here are ten of the most common: Not following the rubric. All essays must meet certain…