This is the forth part of series of posts about life at university and my thought on my first year. The first post in the series just had some general thoughts I had coming straight back from Portsmouth. This post is entitled “The internet“.

When I think of my life at the University of Portsmouth can not seem to imagine what it would be like without the internet. It is such a big part of how I interact with the world and the people around me. It is how I relax by watching funny videos, how I research work problems and where I talk to my friends at the end of the day.

So here is my top ten useful sites

1. Your univierisity web site
   In my case, Port.ac.uk. It is easy going to the most useful tool when there, as most of your life will be spent checking your timetable or email addresses of your lectures. Other unis have forums and blogs. Check it out.
2. Youtube
   One the most useful sites on the internet for filling in time between lectures. There are also lots of viral videos that spread like wildfire. The worst two were
   The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny and Kitty cat Dance.
3. Google
   It is a very powerful tool for researching papers. It has lots of useful tools like book search and Scholar. It also allows you to find all the porn you will ever need.
4. Facebook
   I have already talked about facebook in another post. Also see Myspace.
5. Wikipedia
   Wiki is multilingual, web-based and free encyclopedia. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers from all around the world. When you looking for sources, first place to go. Do remember that it is can have false information and page can change whenever anyone can edit it.
6. Dictionary.com
   You don’t know what one of big word that a lecture or posh person said means, look it up for free.
7. BBC news
   This may seem like a funny one, but I didn’t watch normal TV all the time I was at uni. I got all my news from this site. It started to worry me that I wasnt such who prime minister was and other big events were happening and I didnt know about them. you can also check the weather on here and use it to as a reference.
8. Ebay.co.uk
   Find cheap cloths and pretty everything on here. It past I have had problems with this site, I wouldn’t by anything you would ever want to return, like Computers or CDs.
9. Ebuyer
   For all those things you need Tech wise like cheap laptop or printer, my first stop site. It cheap and the review system is good.
10. IMDB
    The Internet Movie Data base, settling fights about who was in what movie.

The internet is not evil, it is a tool, how you use it is up to you!