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Should You Work While In School?

Tweet Students who don’t have to work while enrolled in college are in an enviable position as they can concentrate on their academic pursuits without distraction. In this economy not

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Tips for the Unemployed and Financially Strapped Recent Graduate

Tweet As many Americans are now finding out–students included–it can be tough to keep going when you have lost your job through layoffs or you aren’t able to find a

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Take Advantage of Your Spring Campus Visit

Tweet Lots of college bound high school students are beginning to make their appearances on college campuses all across the nation right about now. You can tell who they are:

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7 Most Excellent Reasons For Living Off Campus

Tweet Unless you are a college freshman, you probably can choose whether to live on or off campus. After just one semester of living in a crowded, noisy and smelly

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On Campus Jobs: What’s Available

Tweet You’ve been thinking about supplementing your studies with a part-time job, but you aren’t keen on the idea of leaving campus and schlepping across town to wait on customers

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7 Hot Online Jobs For College Students

Tweet If you are attending college full-time, you may find that squeezing in part-time employment is difficult to do given your busy schedule. Thanks to the internet thousands of college

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College Tax Deductions: Do You Qualify?

Tweet January is the month when taxpayers begin to assemble all of the forms, publications, and receipts related to the 2009 tax year. By early February you should have your

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Refining Your Academic Goals Midstream

Tweet Over the next few weeks, millions of college students will be returning to campus to begin the ironically named spring semester. With the coldest winter in recent memory upon

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Athletic Trainers Note Surge In Skin Infections

Tweet Athletic trainers are on the front-line when its comes to discovering health problems with students including those who have skin infections. In a recent update to an annual survey

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How To Finish College In Four Years Or Less

Tweet It is a sign of our times when you hear that it takes college students an average of 4.5 years to complete their studies with a significant number of

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Can’t Get Your Class? Take Action!

Tweet Financial reductions have hammered state budgets, cuts which have been passed on to state colleges and universities as well as community colleges and technical schools. Classes are larger, staff

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College Health Association Tracks Influenza Like Illnesses

Tweet Though only discovered this past April, the H1N1 virus – swine flu to some – has quickly surged to the top of the world’s health news, a topic magnified