Monthly Archives: February 2010

Ah, college. Those glorious years when you study hard, party harder, and put on 25 pounds by the time you graduate. Wait a minute. Was that last bit not exactly a part of your ideal college experience? Sadly, packing on the pounds is a reality for many students as they enter college life and begin to form habits like studying over the pizza box and downing beer and junk food at parties. The food that's the worst for you is almost always the cheapest, and students' health often suffers from a lack of physical activity. Your required physical education courses are not always enough to keep your body healthy. That's why it's important to incorporate exercise into a college lifestyle. …

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Have you ever wondered how colleges go about picking who is accepted into colleges and who gets rejected? Maybe you've watched as a friend of yours tore open their acceptance letter and jumped up and down with glee because they got into the college of their dreams. Maybe you had great grades in high school and high SAT scores and are scratching your head because you just received a rejection letter from the college on which you had your sights set. It is important to realize that colleges do not make these decisions willy-nilly, even though at times it may seem that way. Believe it or not, there is a method to the madness. What you provide in your application …

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The thunderous arrival of the Kindle, Sony Reader, and other electronic reading devices heralded in a novel new way to bring the ancient practice of reading into the 21st century. The idea of converting classic, modern, and all literature in between from a physical printed copy to an electronic format, the eBook, has been tossed around for years. Only now is that vision finally coming to fruition in a meaningful way and out of all of the industries out there that can take advantage of such a development, education should certainly be one of the forerunners to test out the eBook format. Walk into any big city, take a good look around and it is clear that we are living …

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Next time you’re feeling down about your failures in college or in a career, keep these fifty famous people in mind and remind yourself that sometimes failure is just the first step towards success.

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The health care industry comes with a slew of indecipherable names and words that ordinary individuals like you or me would never otherwise know if our classes did not force us to.  Pharmacology is one such word that many of us would not otherwise be aware of, although it has become increasingly vital for many of us to know the benefits that pharmacologists serve in our society.  Pharmacology is the study of drug action, differing greatly from the role that pharmacists fill; pharmacologists instead test the interactions that occur between living organisms and various chemicals, many times discovering a new biological drug that can help combat viruses.   Without pharmacology, we would not be able to safely take any drugs, …

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College textbooks are known for being absolutely vital in learning course material, but they are also known for being outrageously expensive. Students can spend hundreds of dollars on textbooks in one semester alone. Unfortunately, when it comes time for schools to buy the books back, students rarely make any of that money back, even if they were extra careful to not dog ear pages and resisting the urge to highlight vocabulary. With the cost of college growing every year, students are doing all they can to cut back costs. But there are ways you can buy your textbooks without breaking your bank account. In some classes you are going to absolutely buy a brand new, unmarked textbook. This is most …

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Over the past 20 years, how information is managed and shared has changed completely in the face of new and ever more powerful technologies.

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Not everything can be taught in a lecture hall or computer lab. This is why many degree programs require students to complete an internship before they graduate. Internships are important because they give you real life experience in your field of study. Most of the time it is up to students to get an internship on their own, some of which can be harder to find than others. For example, business internships may be easier to find, given the diversity of the industry. But internships in the fields of media or fashion design tend to be harder to find because the work is more concentrated in one area. In many ways, trying to find an internship is much like the …

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The recession has brought with it a new class of students anxious to earn a new degree that will be valuable in any type of industry.  One degree program has been that in the business field, while other programs focus more on fields that are on the rise, such as criminal justice.  Since online courses offer an attractive cost-efficient solution to the rising costs of college, accredited online college courses have been the option most of these students have opted for in recent months.   While online college courses have become an attractive solution for students who have found themselves in need of a new degree, accreditation has become an important thing to look at as well.  Accreditation is not …

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The college experience should be a time of personal growth, learning new things and meeting new friends. All too often, though, a student's experience is dampened by crimes that take place on or near his or her campus. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure when it comes to deterring crime. It's far better to do what you can to prevent a crime from happening in the first place than to find yourself reporting a crime to campus police. Here, we will discuss ways to keep safe while in college. By far the most frequent crimes that occur on most college campuses are thefts and burglaries. Prevention of these crimes starts in the residence halls. While it's …

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