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To Be Or Not To Be A Debtor

High school seniors continue to have dreadful feelings about their future because they see student debt increasing. The solid facts show that the last decade has yielded a 56% increase of student debt.

Education Tips

Why College Students Should Take Summer Classes

It is the period that most students look forward to immediately after their final exams in the spring. For many students the summer is a time to relax away from the books and professors. Other students take on jobs to help them pay tuition for next semester.

Advanced Education

Going to Graduate School Immediately – Pros and Cons

In the last few years, college graduates are increasingly choosing to forgo searching for jobs and head on to graduate school. In the past, science majors were the ones seen to head to graduate school.

Fun News

How to Easily Start Getting Yourself Into Shape for Summer

If you want to fit nicely into your summer clothes and swimsuit, you should start in February or March. You will panic in June when you first put on your summer clothes and then realize they don’t fit nicely, then you will have to spend June instead of March and April just trying to get in shape for summer.

Campus Life

The Benefits of Exercise for Students Includes Happiness Too!

Tweet We would list a few of these here. 1. Meet new people. This is an amazing way to meet new people. You can meet people on the jogging track,

College Budgeting

College Living: Have Control Over Your Expenses

The college expenses that you will incur will largely depend on your lifestyle choices. You can get the best out of college by simply saying on a limited budget…

Social Networking

How to Turn Social Networking Into Social Support While in College

One of the best ways of combating feelings of distress and depression is to build yourself a good network of supportive friends and people who are interested in the same things as you are.

Study Tips

Study Tips and Tactics to Ace your Exams

Back in high school, things were easy – you had set timetables, a set time to go home and most definitely a set time for homework and studying. Then you get to college and every day seems like an endless ream of time that you can use anyhow you want.

Career Planning

Career Planning – How Much Time and Effort do You Really Invest in It?

Think about it, how frequently will you switch careers in your life? A significant number of people change careers at least a few times over the course of their lifetimes. How adaptive and successful your transition will be relies heavily on how much preparation and career planning you have done.

Commentary

Mandated Health Care Coverage Options for Every Student

With the increase in medical care cost, students are a great financial risk should a medical emergency arise. The college student could end up high in debt prior to even entering the employment stage. This can damage a person’s financial credit due to debt from medical costs.

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How FREE is FREE Tuition?

Tweet More often than not, countries from Europe which have no tuition fees are given as positive examples – but is this something that is realistically possible in the U.S?

Job Search

5 Things To Do If You Are Unemployed on Graduation Day

You’ve put in the work, you’ve made the grades, and you have that diploma in hand. You are officially done with college and ready for the real world. There’s just one problem: you don’t have a job…yet.