Archive | June, 2012

How to find time to be alone at college

June 6, 2012

Personal time is tough when you're living in a room with one to three other people, and even tougher when that room is in a building with hundreds of students, which in turn is on a campus with thousands to tens of thousands of students. Even the smallest colleges (and sometimes especially the smallest) can feel overcrowded and claustrophobic.
When you need some time to get away or be alone, it might not seem like there are many options open to you.…

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Your guide to summer internships

June 5, 2012

Many colleges suggest - and some even require - that students undertake internships either during summer or winter break. For most students it's a great opportunity (you worked at a real music studio!), or at the very least a learning experience (you went on a lot of coffee runs) - but for others it's a moment of panic.
How do you find an internship?…

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Video gamers get their own scholarship opportunity

June 5, 2012

For once, being an expert video gamer might help you with college more than double-checking your calculus homework. Announced at the 2012 E3 expo, video game broadcasting community TwitchTV and gaming hardware developer Alienware are teaming up to create a scholarship for those students with a passion for gaming.
The 2012 TwitchTV and Alienware Scholarship consists of $50,000 to be split among five winning students.…

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How to manage your money during summer break

June 4, 2012

For most college students, summer break is anything but. You may not be running off to classes or pulling all-nighters to finish up essays, but summer means you're getting a sample of the postgraduate 9-5 routine, and that's hardly a vacation.
But summer break is also important to your financial well-being during your years in high education. When it comes to getting and saving money, summer is essential.…

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How to adjust to (and get through) sharing dorm bathrooms

June 1, 2012

We've all been sharing bathrooms for most our lives, but you've probably not shared them like this. Dorm life offers a number of challenges - how to eat well, how to get along with your roommate, how to drop Micro Economics 101 - but few are as potentially terrifying as dorm bathrooms. Especially co-ed dorm bathrooms.
Not all colleges have co-ed dorms, and a good number don't have co-ed floors, but more and more often guys and girls are sharing personal space.…

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