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Everyone knows that the life of a college student is all about balancing work and play. With tons of geo-referenced content and video game-like navigation controls, Google Earth enables you to excel at both. In fact, Google Earth 5.0 now gives students…

As a busy student, you probably have lots of things to do. And lots of things to do means lots of to do lists to keep track of. In December, we launched Tasks in Gmail through Gmail Labs to help you keep track of all those to-do’s right from your inbox…

Looking for a job can be a daunting task, but getting your resume completed is often the hardest step. Since your resume and cover letter are usually the first things a prospective employer sees from you, it’s important to get them right. Should you us…

[From time to time we invite guests to blog about initiatives of interest, and are very pleased to have Stephen Savage join us here.]Have you ever wondered about planets orbiting stars that are outside our solar system? They are called “exoplanets

Happy New Year, everyone!We hope you all enjoyed your holidays, semester breaks, and time off. We have a lot in store for the Google Student Blog in 2009 but we’d also love to hear from you about what you’d like to see in these posts. You can think of …

The Student Has Become the TeacherDuring a Google internship PhD student Sam Slee discovered the openness of the Google culture and found a way to become part of it. Name: Sam Slee Department: Google Analysis Products Background: PhD candidate from D…

Remember that age when you were convinced that Santa wasn’t real? No one can travel around the whole world in a single night, you thought. Well, think again, grinch of Christmas past! We have semi-certain proof that Santa does exist — and that he comp…

If you’re like me, your official sticker collecting days ended with the 4th grade, but once in a while stickers can still elicit that same sweet nostalgic satisfaction. Recently, we created a bunch of Gmail stickers: there’s a glittery Gmail m-velope, …

You may have seen our post a few weeks ago about last year’s global winning team for the Google Online Marketing Challenge. The five students from the University of Western Australia partnered with a local climbing gym to create a rock-solid online…

Ever wanted to know more about working in the “real world” besides what your parents and friends have told you? Do you have to be a gifted golfer to succeed in the corporate world? Will you have to become a business casual dresser? Most importantly, w…

YouTube is offering musicians around the globe the opportunity to join a symphony orchestra via video through the world’s first collaborative online orchestra. This is a chance to perform alongside world-renowned conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, learn …

New developments in information technology are rapidly revolutionizing the fields of archaeology, history, and the social sciences. The Digital Archaeological Atlas of the Holy Land (DAAHL) is one example of this that you can see for yourself at http:/…

The end of the year is finally in sight. For you, that probably also means tons of work as you get through exams, rush to finish that term paper (which you should have started a month ago) and juggle your agenda to see family and friends. There’s lit…

As part of Google’s ongoing commitment to encouraging women to excel in computing and technology, we are pleased to host the 2009 Google Workshop for Women Engineers to recognize and reward deserving female graduate students in computer science, and …

On Friday, November 14, we hosted the Grand Finals of Google Code Jam. The event brought together the top 100 coder participants from around the world, who’d been taking their programming skills to the limit over the last few months, solving fiendish a…