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The Student’s Guide to Black Friday

Tweet Today is one of the busiest shopping days of the entire year, the day when millions of people leave their homes hours before sunrise to get on long line

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5 College Commuting Tips

Tweet Although college dorms are filled with students who live on campus and don’t necessarily need or own a car, for many students commuting from home is the way that

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4 Christmas Crunch Survival Tips For Students

Tweet By Lior Levin Although Christmas is a time of year most people enjoy, for students it can prove to be a most stressful time. It’s true they look forward

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How to Fill Your Dorm with Holiday Cheer

Tweet It’s almost that time of year — the Christmas lights are starting go up all around the country. While some people don’t really do this until after Thanksgiving, there

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Surviving the Holidays in the Dorm

Tweet The holidays can be a tough time for some college students. Imaging going to school in California and all your family lives on the other side of the country

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10 Ways to Save Money on Gadgets this Christmas

Tweet By Tom Rodgers Gadgets are one of the most popular shopping categories that people go for when doing their Christmas shopping. Small gadgets make great stocking stuffers. Bigger gadgets

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7 Smart Eating Tips For College Students

Tweet You are in college and are feeling pretty invincible. You stay up late, get up early, eat what you want, do some drinking and you think nothing about exercise.

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Keep It Simple With College Furniture

Tweet By Anne Bouman With the great expectations that accompany moving into one’s own space, practical concerns often fall to the wayside. I distinctly remember convincing my brother and dad

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Adderall and College Culture

Tweet By Robyn Schelenz For most students, the fall semester has just started and test-taking may be weeks away. But, before you know it, midterms and finals will be here

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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,

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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.

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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