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Beyond College: Your Road to Success

Soon, your college years will be over. And that means you will be entering the workforce and pursuing the career you have longed to realize.

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Summer Job Ideas for College Students

Summer will be here before you know it and with it comes a lot more free time than you have seen in nearly nine months. Summer is a great time to unwind, catch up with friends and to consider your future.

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How to Avoid the Scourge of Identity Theft

Identity theft only happens to people with jobs and never to impoverished college students, right? Think again.

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Why Sports Are Important for Students

School sports are a major part of many middle schools, high schools, and colleges.

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Money Challenges and the College Student

If you are a college student, then you are familiar with the financial challenges experienced by most collegians.

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To a Safer and Better Spring Break

Spring break is upon us, with hundreds of thousands of college students enjoying a much-needed respite from their educational pursuits.

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Tips for Finding Part-Time Work On and Off Campus

If you are pinching pennies or otherwise counting every dime, then you have very little money to meet your needs. Moreover, if ramen noodles is your diet of necessity and not of choice, then you really are pinched, aren’t you?

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What Should You Do With Your Money After You Graduate?

We’re not assuming you’re going to be rich. But even if you have a little bit of income, you can start to leverage it to make the most of your education, and create a better life for yourself.

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UCLA Cardiologists Offer Heart-Healthy Advice

You are never too young to consider your heart health. As a college student, you are exposed to germs, fatty foods and binge drinking, what can make you sick, wreck your health or even kill you.

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Questions HS Students Should Ask Their Guidance Counselors

You’re in high school and have plans to attend college. Like many high school students, you’re trying to do your best academically to secure a high spot amongst your graduating class and to polish your college-bound credentials.

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How to Make the Most of a College Snow Day

Your college runs like clockwork, starting and finishing each semester on time and without interruption. Well, usually it does. It just so happens that the most significant storm of the decade is bearing down on your campus.

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How to Overcome Inertia

Inertia — it is that feeling you get when you just don’t want to do much of anything. Some people call it the “blahs” others describe it as a “blue funk” as if a color can adequately those feelings. Then again, if you are in a dark mood, then you know what I am talking about.