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Ashley Gubernick
Mar 21, 2016
Franklin and Marshall College
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Students have busy schedules. Right now you are probably using five minutes out of your thirty minutes of free time just to read this article. (More likely you're using five minutes when you should be writing your essay, but instead you are procrastinating on FaceBook, which is where you saw the link to this article... but let's not get into that.) Students barely have time to do all of their assigned reading, so reading a newspaper is kind ofout of the question.

Luckily, there is a way to get blurbs of daily news sent straight to your email. It's just enough information to help you hold a conversation, and not too much to bore you and take away time that you don't have.

How does one obtain these magical emails? Sign up for the Skimm.com!

TheSkimm tells readers about international news, not just news within the United States. Often times Americans become so absorbed in our own news that we do not leave the United States bubble to find out the troubles of other countries. TheSkimm allows you to learn about topics that occur abroad, and sometimes if there is a crucial article the writers at theSkimm think readers should check out, they link the article into the email.

Furthermore, now is the perfect time to sign up for theSkimm because they also skim news regarding presidential elections! Each candidate answered questions for theSkimm, and you can find the answers here. Once you miss a debate, or two, (or all of them,) it is really difficult to catch up on candidate's views, but theSkimm makes it easy!

If all of those great incentives are not enough to get you involved with theSkimm, do it to support entrepreneurship. That's right, theSkimm was started by two 20-year-old women who have a passion for the news.

Students have so much to remember that even if there is time to read a newspaper, we forget other free-time activities exist beyond Netflix. You can program your phone to allow notifications to pop-up from your email, so that you are alerted when a Skimm email is sent your way. You'll never forget to keep up to date with the news, and you'll never feel out of the loop again. It is as easy as entering your email address.

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