Getting into college is the easy part, it’s making it out of college without losing your life savings that is difficult. We all know that scholarships exist, but very few of us actively pursue them. When you hear about scholarships, you imagine kids with brilliant 4.0 GPA’s who dig wells in Africa being handed $50,000 [...]
As a college student, you need to be able to write several well polished papers a semester that will not only convey your thoughts and ideas but wow your professors with your eloquent writing. It’s a non-negotiable skill that you need to have not only to succeed in college but in the post-graduation real word [...]
Congratulations! After two back-to-back all nighters, you’ve finally managed to write your twenty-five page single spaced paper. You probably think that you’re in the clear now and can afford to sleep in a little bit. What you’re not thinking about is all of the spelling errors and grammar mistakes those twenty-five pages hold. You’re also [...]
Here’s the typical college dilemma: halfway through the month, you run out of top ramen or some other barely edible food. Once again, you find yourself in need of groceries and you couldn’t be any less prepared. You shake out your empty wallet before spying your credit card under a week old pizza box. In [...]
My name’s Melanie Wright and Dawson’s Creek changed my life. The summer I turned 12, I watched as my favorite character, Joey Potter, enrolled in a prestigious and fictitious Boston university as an English major. To my young eyes, it seemed so perfect. I went to bed that night knowing that I wanted to be [...]
