25 Websites Every Student Should Know About

Amazon is an electronic commerce platform where you can buy anything, from a T-shirt to electronic hardware. If you have ever Google-searched “buy a book,” the first results are always from Amazon. Why do we tell you this? Because as a student, you will buy stacks of books.

Amazon offers a free Prime Student trial for six months. After that, you will pay only half of the standard Prime version ($6.49 per month). To access the option, you only need to have an email address ending with .edu. It has all the features of the standard Prime membership. As a bonus, it includes additional benefits that can help you with your studies. The offer lasts for four years or until your graduation, whichever comes first.

Use this resource whenever you think of buying something on Amazon. CamelCamelCamel tracks Amazon prices for free, offering you the best discounts and even alerting you when the cost of your browsed goods has dropped. You can consult the price history of almost 20 million products to see price trends.

There are several ways to use the tool:

1. You can browse the most popular goods with the most significant discounts.
2. You can use the search bar: enter the products and compare prices.
3. You can enter the URL of your dream product on Amazon and be notified when the price decreases.

Retail Me Not has the most extensive database of discount codes, cash-back offers, and coupons. Before purchasing from an online store, search for the needed goods on Retail Me Not. You will definitely find a lower price.

There is an option to download the browser extension, RetailMeNot Deal Finder. When you shop online, the extension offers you all the available coupons valid for the websites you visit. The resource can even combine different discounts that help save you even more.

This website is an oldie but a goodie. You can browse for printable and digital coupons, promo codes, and special holiday deals to make your online shopping less of a money-drain. The special offers comprise 88 categories, including personal care, baby products, food and beverages, and even hotel bookings.

Coupons.com now has a mobile app that stores all loyalty cards for offline stores, as well as coupons that you don’t have to print out. You can subscribe to their mailout to not miss the best offers. If you like their website, you should always start your shopping day here.

Wise money management is not only about finding the best price and discounts. It is also about tracking how much you spend every month and which expenses are unnecessary. Save The Student is a resource that can help make you a financial expert. Everything from student banking to making money is available here.

The website has a “Student Deals” category, listing the best offers for all sorts of products. You can search for a part-time or graduation job here, as the resource aims at students only. Finally, there is a student loan calculator to find the best way to pay your tuition fees.

TED is the most famous resource for video lectures on every possible subject. The topics are not the average ones you find on campus. It is a valuable source for original ideas for your term papers.

The lecturers are professional teachers and public speakers. This feature makes TED-Ed a more accurate source of knowledge than YouTube, where the authors’ background can often be questionable.

The mission of TED-Ed is to disseminate knowledge worldwide, and thousands of people volunteer for them. By watching their videos, you can become a part of a large group of knowledge and information enthusiasts, motivating you to be more persistent with your studies and help you think outside the box.

This e-learning platform provides access to numerous online courses from the world’s most famous colleges and universities. After completing each course, you get a certificate or a degree (a Master’s course, for example). Many of the options are free, but some cost a fraction of the respective offline training. Some courses do not require payment unless you want to access premium tasks like tutor corrections.

A typical course consists of videos and texts in the form of lectures. They are followed by comprehensive assignments with a growing level of complexity.

EdX is a perfect alternative for Coursera. It has partnerships with 120+ institutions, including Ivy League schools and worldwide companies. The primary benefit, compared to Coursera, isthat all EdX courses have a free version. It means that you can listen to or read the lectures without any payment. Still, if you need to have your practical tasks verified or want a certificate upon completion, you have to pay.

Another positive feature is the option to pay (and pass) only some part of a course. Large ones are divided into sections, and you can pay to get a certificate only for one or several levels.

Quizlet is a service helping you memorize any material in different ways (by ear, spelling, etc.). Its audio version is available in 18 languages.

The cards help you memorize the correct answer. When you click on the question card, it flips, and you can check if your answer is correct. There are several other types of learning games to enhance your knowledge. You can create your own cards, but there are lots of materials available on all possible subjects. There is an option to print out the cards if you prefer offline training.

It is one of the most comprehensive websites for academic writing. It clarifies different citation styles, describes existing style guides, and advises on how to avoid plagiarism. Most of its information is stored as YouTube videos. There you can find lots of tips on all kinds of academic writing, grammar, and style.

The articles are grouped by the level of study, which is very convenient. There are lots of writing topics for graduate students, descriptions of writing genres, and instructions on preparing your thesis. If you are looking for your first job, Purdue OWL will guide you on how to write your first resume and cover letter.

Here you can grade your professors. All feedback is anonymous. You can search the professor in question by name (more than 1.7 million teachers) or by the school (more than 8000 schools).

It is for you to decide which ratings are reasonable. Reading them all gives you a relatively complete picture of a professor’s strong and weak points. This information is essential when selecting your thesis tutor or research advisor.

Evernote has extensive formatting features, making it a perfect brainstorming tool. If you use it for a while, and the notes become too numerous, you can browse them by any word.

The tool for notes integrates with other apps, including Google Drive and Outlook. But the most valuable benefit is the web clipper feature that allows you to save a selected part of a web page for future reference.

Professors adore assigning students to group projects. It’s how we learn teamwork and interpersonal skills. At first, we tend to think sharing work with a group of people makes the task easier. Very quickly, you realize that it is quite the opposite. The most challenging thing is coordination.

Trello helps teams become more efficient problem solvers. This visual collaboration tool displays the tasks and the people responsible for them. Then, you can track the work progress by each person and as a whole group. It can also track the productivity of each member to show who is the most efficient and who you hope you don’t get partnered with for the next project.

Tomato Timer is a simple but useful timer to fight your procrastination and writer’s block. Its principle consists of dividing your work into 25-minute intervals with 5-minute breaks. After four such cycles, you can have a 10-minute break. The tool has convenient keyboard shortcuts so as not to distract yourself from extra clicking.

Francesco Cirillo, the author of the method, found out that we become most effective when breaking long assignments into short, equal intervals. He called them “Pomodoros” (tomatoes from Italian) after the tomato-shaped timer he used while being a student.

LinkedIn brings excellent opportunities for networking with your peers. Few students realize how priceless their time at university is. You communicate with hundreds of people who will become professionals in the same sphere as you. In ten years, you will be grateful to know people with whom you can share your work or even hire.

LinkedIn gives you access to professional and educational content to help you become a real specialist. Many companies publish their job openings and look for recent graduates here. If you are not already on LinkedIn, do it and make your profile as complete as possible. Your future self will thank you.

Lifehacker is a blog about health, technology, relationships, movies, sports, science, and more for those who want to improve day by day. The resource’s motto is “Do Everything Better.” You can find ways to improve your productivity, tackle unresolvable problems, and make your routine more meaningful.

The articles are grouped under strange names. Skillet (food), offspring (parenting issues), two cents (budgeting and taxes), vitals (health), and lodge (cleaning and repair works) are the categories. Lifehacker has a weekly podcast named The Upgrade with the best tips for any occasion.

Medium is a platform for social journalism, but anyone can express themselves on this website. Professional authors and amateurs share their thoughts here. It sounds even better if we consider that the website boasts more than 170 million readers.

If you are a student of the Arts, Medium should become your hobby. There you can refine your self-expression, receive feedback, and draw inspiration from other people’s work.

Quora is a social service for knowledge sharing, founded by two Facebook creators. It is a Q&A platform where people ask all sorts of questions, and anyone can answer. The website administration tracks the quality of questions and answers, deleting the irrelevant ones. Users can rate the answers, raising the status of the person who wrote them. In such a way, they become more trustworthy, and their answers are displayed above others.

It is highly advisable to browse the answered questions on your topics before asking something. The resource has existed since 2009, and the most popular queries for high school and college have already been answered.

Mental Floss is an online magazine for millennials. For the most part, its articles focus on interesting facts, quizzes, trivia, and brain games.

Still, we recommend you browse this resource only in your free time. It is the perfect place to accidentally binge-watch a lot.

Reddit is a vast collection of forums on all possible subjects. People write there to share news, popular content, and other people’s publications. It is the 7th most popular online resource in the US.

Like Mental Floss, it is too easy to get lost reading Reddit page after page, skipping among the subjects, but several communities can be helpful to college students.

On the TodayILearned subreddit, users share the most intriguing things they’ve learned on the given day. It is a good source for new, unexpected knowledge that will make you think outside the box.

HomeworkHelp subreddit is a forum to ask for homework help.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Wikipedia is the place where you make that first move. It explains all terms, personalities, and phenomena.

It is a free online encyclopedia, accessible from all over the world. Despite the comprehensive and verifiable nature of the material on Wikipedia, you should never include it in your list of references.

Gutenberg is the world’s largest online library of literature in the public domain. The copyright period of its books has elapsed, and now everyone has the right to use them for free. Most fiction (except for contemporary authors) and classics of psychology, sociology, literary criticism, and other non-fiction genres are housed here.

The library of eBooks can save you lots of money (if you had to buy them) and time (if you took them from public libraries). The bulk of knowledge students must master grows exponentially. Such resources make education accessible to everyone.

Google Drive is the most popular and convenient document storage platform. It eliminates the need to install Microsoft Office, as you can create and edit .docx, .xlsx, .ppt, and other similar files online. Its most significant benefit is the ability to access all your files from any device through your Google account.

You can use it for teamwork when multiple people need to edit the same file. Google Drive gives you 15 GB of storage space. If you need more, you can purchase 100 GB to 2 TB.