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Thank you Three speaks organization and your digital life Ah

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la shmoop it's The most wonderful time of the college

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application time Why What do you think we were talking

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about Well anyway you're not too worried You know you

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have a good chance of getting into your dream School

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grades are great You rocked your s a t s

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your list of extracurriculars are a mile long You're the

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leader of twelve clubs and the team captain of five

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sports You also might be a robot jury's still out

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on that one anyway there's Nothing standing between you and

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your dream school By the time you finished crafting the

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perfect essay the application deadline has rolled around You're still

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not worried though You've got a whole ten minutes left

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enough time to submit your materials and buy yourself a

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college sweatshirt to rock all summer long Will you type

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in your username and password and huh That's Strange You

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could have sworn you used your usual combination Maybe you

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used your backup password instead Well that's Where it maybe

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you should try clicking of forgot my password Great Now

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all you need is the answer to your security questions

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So well what was the name of your first pet

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Seriously Okay no need to panic Made a document full

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of college information and saved it somewhere Yeah maybe you

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should panic Well by the time you finally figure out

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that the answer to your security question is security questions

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are for losers that deadlines come and gone But hey

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look on the bright side That sweatshirt looks pretty absorbent

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It'll dry those tears in no time So you're not

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going to your dream college But you know what might

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cheer you up organizing your digital life or not But

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we were never a huge hit at parties But for

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reals though organizing your digital life It's actually pretty simple

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those username and password combos that you never remember We'll

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write them all down in one password protected document That

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way you only have to remember one password instead of

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like seventy And if your desktop looks like this chances

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are you won't find what you're looking for without a

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homing pigeon Ouch Poor bird Why not take pity on

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him and spend a few minutes cleaning up your desk

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top Make folders within folders to sort through your documents

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Color code Do whatever you need to do to give

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yourself a system you can follow and while you're at

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it why not go through your inbox and delete some

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of those e mails Chances are you've got some things

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that are awaiting a reply and you don't want to

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keep that poor nigerian prince and suspense And even though

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you're super cool and have two thousand facebook friends it's

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even cooler When you get to see the post from

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people you actually care about you go ahead and cut

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out that one girl who convinced you that a homing

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pigeon would be a good investment get by by now

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keeping your digital life organized can be just as helpful

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is keeping your actual life organized and even though you

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won't be going to that dream school of yours any

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time soon well at least you don't have to leave 00:02:54.44 --> [endTime] this little guy

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