Stress is inevitable when you have to deal with people with strong personalities. If you have the tendency to blow your top and you find yourself butting heads with someone who has a similar disposition, you may be inviting a stressful situation that you don’t need. For instance, that noisy neighbor in your dorm needs […]
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You can just imagine how expensive being in college is nowadays. There are many things you have to pay for including tuition, textbooks, dorm, and lots more. The last thing you need in college is paying for debts. But why do many students end up owing a big amount of money to others? One obvious
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Emergencies come in various forms. As a college freshman, you will have to look out for your safety on your own, because no one else will do it for you. In your own home, there may have been someone to take care of all the emergencies. There’s always something in the medicine cabinet to take
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Long before you graduate from college and start looking for jobs, you should already develop your own personal brand. It’s important that people get to know you for who you really are without revealing too much of yourself. Potential employers want to familiarize themselves with future employees even before they apply for jobs. They want
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Jameelah Ra’oof, a first generation college graduate and author learned through trial and error how to financially survive her college years. She has volunteered, interned, and worked every type of minimum wage job to put herself through college. Teaching herself how to manage money and minimize debt. With an unwillingness to give up on her
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There are many ways on how you can make your break from college as productive as possible. Now that you have more free time in your hands, there’s no excuse not to do the things you wished you would’ve done during the school year. While others are keeping themselves busy with part time jobs or
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Most college freshmen assume that they have a good idea what their goals are when they enter the doors of the university. It may seem like college is a pit stop they have to attend for four years before they can join the real world. Several years of studying and taking exams, and you’re an
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The cost of a college education nowadays is extremely expensive especially if you’re enrolled in a prestigious school. Aside from having to pay for tuition and other miscellaneous fees, you also need college text books which are just as costly. With so many financial obligations in college, how else can you save money on your
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