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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New Year’s Resolutions
It’s New Year’s Eve. It’s that time of year where families get together to celebrate the dropping of a ball as it rolls in the new year. For college students, it’s that time of year where stupid people get together to get stupid drunk to wake up the next morning in China with a stupid hangover, realizing then that they still have another month before the year of the Horse.
Anyway, it’s also that time of year where you wait in anticipation, planning to break every one of your new years resolutions. Because really, it’s only inevitable.
-Read more!Developing Good Study Habits
I don’t think I need to go into too much detail as to why studying is important. When you go into college, it becomes a way of life: you read over the material, take notes, create a study plan, and study…a lot. It’s not something you can take lightly, especially when you begin taking higher […]
-Read more!Why is Studying Important?
As a public schooler, you may have had your teachers tell you to take notes while they gave their teachings, or at least during a video to refer back to later. As a homeschooler, you may have never been exposed to this at all, but that certainly doesn’t mean you shouldn’t start now. During high […]
-Read more!The Art of Note-Taking
Taking notes can be difficult, especially if you’ve never actually sat through a lecture before. Many college students don’t even bother, as they will be either sleeping or playing on their phones most of the time. Some don’t even show up, unless it’s for a test. You don’t want to do this though, not if […]
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College can be tough, especially if you’re taking courses that are at the 3000 level or above (the four digits in the course code reflect the difficulty of the course, apparently). At times, you will get to that point to where it doesn’t matter how much you cram in study hours or how much you pay attention […]
-Read more!Surviving Physics (Or How to Pass Your Courses)
If you’re going to take a college level physics course with no previous exposure to physics, let me tell you, you have you have quite a journey awaiting you. One of fear, anxiety, pain, agony, and much shedding of tears. Walking into my physics class for the first time, I felt as though I was […]
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