Going back to school can be a difficult transition for any mid-career professional, adult student or other type of nontraditional student. Military service members, though, have unique challenges facing them when they decide to earn a degree or complete a career training program after seeing combat or spending time abroad.
Freshmen orientation, or "Fish Camp," may seem unnecessary, but it is actually a great way to dive into your first year at college. Even if you are attending a college close to home and do not plan on spending extraneous time on campus during your educational career, you should still go to Fish Camp because [...]
Even if your library is equipped with subscriptions and memberships to top of the line databases and online journals, you’ve probably had to get creative during a patron’s requested search for something unfamiliar.
College students these days arrive on campus wired. They have iPod headphones in their ears, cell phones open for texting in their hands, and laptops in their bags. Stroll into any dining hall, library, or grassy knoll and you will see the area dotted with students hunched over their glowing laptop screens, tapping away on [...]
Paying for college is a monumental task and one that typically haunts students with nightmares of student loan bills and debt for years after they graduate. Banks seize upon students strapped for cash and desperate to pay their tuition bills, offering them money but with an incredibly high interest rate. This leaves graduates paying for [...]
Take a look at the student population of any major university. Nearly one out of every five students enrolled there are transfer students from a community college, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. That means that approximately 20 percent of all college students are transfer students, which is a sizeable portion of the student [...]
Your might often listen to your parents recant stories from their college years when students waited in long lines for hours just to schedule their courses. Payphones were used to call friends from the bar. The total cost for books in a single semester was $75 bucks. Composing research papers required hours in the library [...]
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There is only so much that anyone can learn about you by looking at your high school transcript. They can see that you took on-level or advanced classes, that you took math all four years or stopped as soon as you could, and that you were an average student or a high-scoring one. Yet, all [...]
Here are 100 places where you can go to calculate just about anything and everything to make your college life just a little bit easier.
