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How to Avoid Alcohol Pressure While at College

Despite a national drinking age of 21, alcohol is widely available across most of the nation’s campuses. Some schools such as Brigham Young University not only ban alcohol, but require students to adhere to an honor code. Violate the code and students can be disciplined or expelled.

Personal Advice

Don’t Quit School: Businesses You Can Launch on the Side

You have a regular job or attend school, but have always dreamed about launching a business on the side. Like many budding entrepreneurs, you’re not about to quit your day job.

Campus Cars

Seven Causes of Car Breakdowns

Your car usually runs great, but not today. For some reason it won’t start or perhaps it runs just fine until you hit highway speeds.

Personal Advice

8 Gift Ideas for High School Grads

High school graduation is in full swing with millions of students across the country set to close one chapter of their lives in preparation for embarking on a new one. This is an exciting time for graduates and should be recognized accordingly.

Personal Advice

Dorm Basics for College Freshmen Students

As you get ready to head to college for the first time this fall, you will be crafting a list of things to bring with you. Dorm living provides a bed, a dresser and possibly a desk with a chair.

College Living

What Changes Students Will Face While Attending College

Your academic pursuits represent the cornerstone of what college will mean to you. Though very important, academics isn’t the only thing that will shape your college experience — you and the people you know will also change and in ways you might not have considered previously.

Personal Advice

Graduation: You Are Almost There!

Your college graduation is closing in with just one more test to take and then you are home free. When the last bit of your academic pursuit is behind you, you will have a bachelor’s degree in hand and you will be ready to take on the world.

Personal Advice

Nifty College Graduation Party Ideas

How will you celebration your college graduation? With a big party or by holding a small, private event?

Study Tips

How to Tackle a Lengthy Report With Little Time to Spare

Your big report is due next week and you haven’t even started it. Your professor approved the title, but that is as far as you have gone.

Personal Advice

What You Need to Know About College Graduation Announcements

Graduating from college is a big deal — for you, for your parents as well as for your extended family and friends. Many people probably know that you’re about to graduate, but without a formal announcement they may miss that information.

College Living

Meal Plans and the College Student

Eating right or even eating at all should never be taken for granted. For college students, the cost of tuition, fees, books, room and board, and related expenses can put a crimp on their finances, causing “food insecurity” for some.

Personal Advice

Dorm Living: What to Bring With You to College

As you prepare to leave for college for the first time, you’ll need to make a list of what to bring with you. And that list needs to be comprehensive to include everything from your personal effects to furniture.