Learn how to be a CIA agent? Convert to Buddhism? Write a screenplay? Give a high tea? Become a member of the paparazzi? Well the So You Wanna duck can help you out. As well as the writers at the website Soyouwanna.com (because it’s kind of hard for the duck to type with those wings). But from changing your religion to getting a cool career like a fashion designer, this website can show you the steps on how to do it. So hit their website and soon you could learn the steps on how to score higher on your next SAT test…or be snapping pictures of Brad and Angelina. It’s up to you.

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Of course you are in a scramble to get ready to move, but what to bring? Well as for the basics the nice people at the College Board (an organization dedicated to supporting the achievement of college students) have compiled a list for you. And, they really are serious when they say you need 14 [...]

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And no library has that elusive copy of Moby Dick? Well Readprint may save you. The Age of Innocence, Julius Caesar, and Animal Farm are just a few of the books that Readprint has available – for free! – on their website. Now there is no excuse for being up to date on your reading. Unless you lose your laptop…then we can’t help you.

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Don’t blame yourself…and instead of staring at the screen in frustration there may be something you could do about it.  If you click here you will go to the page the nice people at Microsoft made listing tricks to speed up your computer.  it is important to point out – go only to reputable sites [...]

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Of course you do.  Well Google wants to help you out – little do they know – with all of their time saving tricks.  What?  You don’t know any of them?  Well the people at eternalcode.com have amassed the most useful and have posted a list for us.  If you go to the link you [...]

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Well, good for you.  The rest of the world is divided into those who THINK they can sing, and those who save it for the car or shower.  If you are in the latter two groups,  wikihow can help you out with that and a myriad of other skills.   Like, “how to talk to a guy that [...]

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If not tonight  may be your luck night.  The Perseid meteor shower is at its height tonight, August 12th.  WHAT?  You don’t know what the Perseid meteor shower is?  Well here is a link to  the American Meteor Association, that will explain it to you, just scroll down the page.  Also in their site is [...]

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Yes – school is out for the summer, but soon…well we don’t want to think about that.  To make the transition a little easier, there is a new (free!) software you can use to memorize using flashcards – Anki.  The difference between this and other flashcard type services, is that Anki lets you  download [...]

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Don’t despair, the Wilton Library will come to your rescue. We have all kinds of research tools for you to use, either in the library or from home. Click here to go to our reference page and resource links, including databases, general magazine indexes, business and health indexes, newspaper indexes, phone directories, and more. Access to most of these databases requires that you enter the number from your library card (that long number under the barcode).To find out which magazines are available in which databases, check out our periodical title searches. So now you don’t even have to get out of bed to research that paper – provided your laptop cord is long enough.

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Well there are others like you out there. Besides reading some of the new titles in teens, you can join CoCoRaHS.  CoCoRaHS is an acronym for the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network.  CoCoRaHS is a unique, non-profit, community-based network of volunteers of all ages and backgrounds working together to measure and map [...]

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