Nobody likes to write a research paper, but there’s this great thing called the Internet (or if you’re my grandmother, “tha Internets”) featuring an abundance of resources that have made the process easier and have made trips to a brick-and-mortar library less and less necessary (unless you have a crush on the librarian, which would explain your front-row seat at story time). Here are 17 of the very best websites when it comes time to research that big school paper.

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Earlier this week, CNN.com reported that Bronx resident Trina Thompson, 27, had filed suit against her alma mater, New York’s Monroe College, because she hasn’t found a job in the three and a half months since graduation. Thompson graduated on April 16 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration and claims in her court filing that the Office of Career Advancement’s counselors “have not tried hard enough to help me,” citing the fact that they didn’t “call the graduates that recently finished college for an interview to get a job placement.”

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Have you hit a wall in your homework assignment and don’t have your parents around to help you anymore? (Face it, they haven’t been helpful since you were in the sixth grade.) Here are some websites that might be able to provide some help, free of charge. Unlike your parents, who would always find a way to make you pay.

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Let this be a lesson on how NOT to pass a class…

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If you’re thinking about traveling abroad, don’t become one of those tourists who don’t know anything about the language or culture you’re visiting.  With these websites, you can learn all you need to know before you even reach foreign soil. Even if you’re not going anywhere, broaden your horizons by learning a language or two; impress your friends and confuse your enemies.

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