All posts tagged college planning

Getting The Most Out of Your Textbook

When factoring in the costs of going to college, many students tend to overlook one thing: textbooks. Sure, tuition, room and board, and campus fees are pretty expensive on their own, but textbooks come close. The average college student spends about $900 per year on textbooks and the average cost of one comes out to […]

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Considering College: A Christian’s Perspective

This isn’t a topic I normally get onto myself, but with everything I’ve said about college thus far, this is something that I felt that I should add to it. In an interview with Rick Ostrander, the author of Reconsidering College: Christian Higher Education for Working Adults, Inside Higher Ed asked for his perspective on college education as nontraditional […]

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Reading the Fine Print

This is a hard thing for many people to do, including myself. Usually, we see a bunch of tiny little words and say to ourselves, “yeah, it pretty much says what all the others say,” and look over it. It’s a common American practice because really, we don’t care what the contract says, we just […]

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Overcoming The Stressful College Environment

College certainly isn’t a walk in the park. It consists of  tests, paper work, deadlines, reports, and whatever else you can think of. It’s pretty much an introduction to real life.  For some, it’s easy to get caught up in the workload as you’re taking 15+ credit hours every semester (I seriously don’t recommend taking […]

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A Few Odd Courses to Choose From

There was once a time when colleges were the place to go to get more in-depth into the knowledge of science, mathematics, history, and art. But nowadays, you can take just about everything and anything out there, offering just a little more than a waste of time and money. Many courses are just pain odd, while […]

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Why You Shouldn’t Date in College

It’s Valentine’s Day. The time of year where Cupid comes out of his rabbit hole and shoots people in the southern posterior, inspiring them to buy candied hearts and and the sort for that special someone who’s most likely not even worth it. Obviously, you can tell I love this time of year, because I […]

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The EOC (End of College) Exam

Typically, no matter which college you go to, you end up taking an entrance exam of some sort. Whether it be the SAT, the ACT, or a special exam given by the community or in-state college you wish to go to, you need to take something that proves that you have the academic skills required […]

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There Are Options for College Out There

While schools have done a pretty good job at breaking students financially over the years, there are still schools out there that can do far less damage than others. The first and most obvious choice would of course be community or in-state colleges, which have low tuition costs and require no additional fees for maintaining […]

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College Does Not Equal Success

I know that I’ve said this time and time again (like many of the other things that I’ve said over and over), but college isn’t for everyone. I know that that’s still a big shocker to many people, but you really don’t need to go to college to be successful in life. If anything, college […]

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The 5 Rules of Social Media Etiquette

The internet is a strange and mysterious place. It’s unlike real life in such a way that it allows people to express themselves in ways they normally wouldn’t in public. For instance, it wouldn’t socially acceptable to run around the classroom, showing pictures of yourself to all your classmates. But put those same pictures up […]

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