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House of Horrors: Establishing Rules for the Roommate from Hell

Tweet By Sarah Danielson Every year, the young adults among us head off to their first year of college with visions of sugarplums dancing in their heads, or more likely,

Book Reviews

Book Review: Online Education for Dummies

I must admit that I’m not a big fan of the various “For Dummies” reference books that have surfaced over the past two decades.

Book Reviews

Book Review: The Best 373 Colleges

Tweet There are sure things that take place every August and I’m not talking about students heading off to college. Rather, The Princeton Review faithfully releases an update of its

Book Reviews

Book Review: Barron’s Best Buys in College Education

Tweet Friends of ours are in a panic because they have one year to go before the oldest of their three children heads off to college. He is a gifted

Study Tips

The 10 Best iPhone Apps for the College Campus

Tweet By Anna Miller There’s no doubt that the first prize for the largest number of apps being developed goes to the iPhone – this brilliant gadget from Apple has

Book Reviews

Book Review: Women Astronomers: Reaching For The Stars

Tweet Some girls do not show much interest in science and math, which is too bad considering how well women have done in these fields down through the years. Though

Book Reviews

Book Review: How George Washington Fleeced The Nation

Tweet History as you may not know it! History is something we have learned, usually from educators as well as from our leaders, parents, family members and friends. What we

Book Reviews

Book Review: Community College Companion

Tweet “Everything You Wanted to Know About Succeeding in a Two-Year School” Two-year schools, sometimes called junior colleges, technical schools and most commonly community colleges, are an important part of

Book Reviews

Book Review: Debt-Free U

Tweet Tackling the college cost conundrum A UMass senior believes families are needlessly taking on too much debt in hopes of giving their adult children a head start in life.

Study Tips

Off to College: 5 Cool Online Tools

Tweet By Lior Levin College life sure is a world of its own, or at least that’s what I have discovered. Like most every other college student, I would use

Personal Advice

Off to College: As Expectations Reign (or Rain?)

Tweet By Bill White My son moves into his dorm at the University of Illinois on the 17th of this month – and so begins his freshman year of college.

Personal Advice

Off to College: Dorm Room Decorating on a Budget

Tweet By Shelly Towns Fab, not drab, for your college dorm room. Louis XIV had the Palace of Versailles and you have your dorm room. Though it might not be