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By M. Stephanie Murray
Arizona Daily Wildcat September 25, 1997
Gain expertise online
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Do you ever have those days when you just feel totally helpless? When your mom will hang up on you if you call again with a stupid how-to question that you should know the answer to? When every faucet in your house is dripping and you feel like a character in an Edgar Allen Poe story?
Me too. But then I found Learn2.com. Billed as "the ability utility," Learn2.com provides helpful tutorials for all kinds of things you should know how to do. If you can get online, you can become a better person.
From tying a bow tie to parallel parking, all of those useful but often forgotten skills are utilized. It's kinda like having a direct line to a very patient, very competent mom.
This is how it works: Sift through the category listings, broken down into things like "Get Crafty: Hobbies&Such" and "It Figures: Financial Solutions." Find your area of inexpertise. Choose your "2torial" (isn't that cute?). Read the Intro, check how much time and what supplies you'll need, and begin stepping through. Most every 2torial takes about six steps, and tough stuff, like the bow tie or fixing a leaky faucet, comes with helpful diagrams.
Not that it's all important stuff. There are things here even the most patient of moms would have taught you. Stuff like How to Cure a Hangover, Make a Paper Airplane, Spin a Basketball. Important social talents, these.
And now that the UA's all web-connected, this site could become indispensable for freshmen and others thrust out into a cold and hostile world. How to Wash, Dry and Fold Your Laundry would have been a godsend for me. (I've recently discovered the magical things that happen when you separate colors.) How to Open a Jar could be quite handy, but its companion 2torial, How to Open a Coconut may be a little more than we needed to know.
So now you've learned something. Now go and learn something useful. Then go home and impress your mom with how accomplished you are at flushing your car's radiator (2torial #0714).
