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Top 10 Books That College Students Are Reading
Want to know what college students are reading?
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently surveyed dozens of colleges and universities across the country to compile this top 10 college reading list. You won’t find any heavy literature on this list that includes three books dripping with zombie and vampire antics.
I’d recommend reading No. 2 and No. [...]
Why You Don’t Need a Student Credit Card
Beginning this week, it became much harder for college students to obtain a credit card.
Many college kids who aren’t 21 yet must get a cosigner to obtain a student credit card. Frankly, I think that’s a good thing.
A far better alternative to that first credit card in college is a debit card, which you can [...]
Why I Chose Yale – Not
If you haven’t seen the campy You Tube musical called “Why I Chose Yale, you might want to check it out. I imagine that watching it will only increase the anxiety of any parent or high school student who thinks Yale (or some other Ivy League school) is the only higher-ed trophy worth bagging.
If you [...]
One out Five College Coeds Is Sexually Assaulted
It’s all too common for college coeds to be raped or to be the victims of an attempted rape.
According to a federal study, one out of five women are sexually assaulted in college. What’s equally alarming is about 95% of these women remain silent.
The Center for Public Integrity has just released a new study based [...]
Selling Your College Textbooks to Amazon
Do you have some used college textbooks you’d like to get rid of?
You might want to check with Amazon. The online bookseller rolled out a new program today to entice college students to trade in their textbooks.
The trade-in program is simple. You can check to see if Amazon will buy your used textbook and what [...]
Higher-Ed Thanksgiving Story
I was too busy to post on my college blog yesterday because I was struggling with a semi-broken oven as I tried to cook a 22-pound turkey, a pumpkin praline pie (my husband’s favorite), blueberry pie (my son’s favorite) and lots more with low heat. An hour after I put the turkey in the oven [...]
27Nov2009 | Lynn | 0 comments | Continued
Seven Job Tips for College Students
The job news is grim for soon-to-be graduating college students.
Employers, according to The National Association of Colleges and Employers are expected to hire 7% fewer graduates of the Class of 2010 than they did with the last batch.
With this shrunken pool of college graduate jobs, how can soon-to-be graduates get ahead in this jobless recovery? [...]
Binge Drinking: Students in Coed Dorms Drink More
Here’s something else for parents of college students to worry about: students living in coed college dorms end up abusing alcohol more.
Students living in a coed college dorm are more likely to drink alcohol and they are roughly 2 1/2 times more likely to drink excessively. In a study conducted by the Journal of [...]
Entrepreneurs: Starting a Business in College
You can’t hide in college forever.
I’m sure that’s what millions of college students are thinking as they contemplate eventually finding a job during the worst job market since the Great Depression.
One way to prepare for the inevitable leap into the dreary job market is to become entrepreneurial. Students can launch their own business while they [...]
College Students: Drop That Twinkie
Debt isn’t the only thing that weighs down students when they attend college. They also get fatter.
Undergrads who head off to college are warned about the “freshmen 15.” That’s allegedly the number of pounds freshmen gain when they arrive at college.
Some nutritionists and physicians, however, believe that the freshman 15 is now more like the [...]
