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Balancing School and a Job

If you’ve ever tried to work and attend school at the same time, you know it’s not for the faint of heart.

Personal Advice

7 Critical Ways to Improve Your Credit Score

A low credit score can effect you in ways beyond the interest rates you pay for your loans. Bad credit can keep you from leasing an apartment and may even stop you from getting a job.

Personal Advice

Healthful Eating and the College Student

You were raised to eat a certain way while at home. Hopefully, that way incorporated a lot of sound eating habits, what can contribute to good health overall.

Student Health

Common Cold Remedies: Clearing Up the Misconceptions

While there may be no surefire cure for the common cold, it does not mean that there are not many effective methods for mitigating its harmful effects.

Personal Advice

Yawn: Sleep Better While at College

A few weeks into the semester and you may notice that you’re feeling tired and staying that way most days. Unless you have an illness, such as mononucleosis, your fatigue may be attributed to your schedule: late nights, early mornings and raucous weekends.

Personal Advice

First Year College Student: After the Euphoria Dies

The weeks leading up to your freshman orientation were filled with excitement. At orientation, you got a good feel for the school, met your roommate and began to make new friends.

Campus Cars

Fab Find: Fiat 500L

When it comes to affordable newer cars for college students your choices typically range from a subcompact hatchback to a compact sedan. The one challenge with both these types of vehicles is that the storage room is often too limited, a problem that becomes apparent when you are traveling from home to college and back with all your gear packed in.

College Living

The Pros and Cons of Dorm Life

You are heading off to college and will soon encounter a familiar environment: West Hall, the dorm building you have lived in for the past two years.

College Living

Fresh Fruit Care Package for Your College Student

Sending a child off to college is an emotional time for any parent. Saying good-bye is bittersweet. It represents the next stage in a child’s emotional and intellectual growth and a child’s burgeoning independence.

Personal Advice

Making Money and the College Student

Stories about impoverished college students abound. Typically, the narrative goes something like this: students have barely enough money to pay for tuition, fees and books, with perhaps just enough money left over to subsist on Ramen noodles.

College Living

How Boarding School Better Prepares You for College

Did you know that 87% of students who attend boarding school say they feel prepared for college?

Technology

Hot Toys From the Early 2000’s

Some toy crazes from the early 2000s flashed hot and faded away. Others morphed into even cooler versions of themselves and are still popular today.