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College Education Bringing About a Sense of Underemployment

As you begin reading, note that I’m not talking about unemployment, but “underemployment”. What’s underemployment, you ask? Underemployment would be a term used to describe individuals who are employed, but aren’t working at a job that reaches their level of qualification. In a recent survey, it was reported that close to 46% of those in their early […]

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Obamacare Will Make College Health Insurance More Expensive

This should come to no surprise to anyone thats been keeping up with the news. Obamacare, by just the mention of it, has caused many changes already, probably more bad than good. Private insurance companies are having to meet up to new standards and many employers are being forced to provide their employees with health […]

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Skepticism Towards Obama’s Rating System Among Colleges

After Obama’s proposal of a college ranking system back in august, theres no surprise that there might be some criticism coming from colleges. it means that if some colleges are ranked lowly, they’ll receive less federal aid, which means that less students will be able to enroll. but isn’t this what we need? it will […]

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Surviving Black Friday

Black Friday. It’s the day after Thanksgiving. It’s the one day out of the year where everyone gets to act like a bunch of crazy animals, trampling over store clerks and fighting over the latest gaming consoles. It’s the one day when families, after finishing their Thanksgiving dinner,  get together in the living room, pull […]

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Student Speaks Out Against the Common Core

You probably haven’t heard me say very much of what’s bad about the Common Core. That is because on the surface, it’s a fairly good idea. It creates an outline for education that mostly every state has adopted, which would make the learning criteria virtually identical across the board. It was open to input from […]

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Using College as a Bridge to Your Career

The chasm between college and the workforce is a mighty big one. It’s something that our education system has failed to correct and many students arrive at this gap totally unaware. A bridge must be built to get to the other side, which may surprise many since no one had been told through grade school […]

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Colleges May Penalize You Over Preference On Financial Aid

As you’re filling out your FAFSA, you’ll eventually come to the part where you have to list the colleges that you plan to attend to, or which ones you want to attend to. Little did you know that your listing is shared, meaning that colleges can see how you rank them among other colleges. So […]

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26 Bizarre College Classes

Flipping through your college’s course catalog, you may have seen one or two classes in there that may have made you scratch your head. Whether if it’s about how to survive a nuclear holocaust or an in-depth study of the psychology of the latest television series, you might have seen it in there somewhere. These […]

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A More Responsible You

So you’re heading off to college. You have newfound independence that you’ve never experienced in the first 17 years of your life. And you’re not married either, so you don’t have to confide in anyone for every decision that you decide to make. You have the freedom to do what you want, whenever you want. […]

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College Fairs

So, college fairs…not exactly a topic I really find all that interesting, but I thought I’d get it out of the way. These events that usually take place at high schools, so if you missed out on it them, then I’m sorry. You’re going to need to find yourself a time machine or something…Not really.

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