Step into the vibrant world of HBCU College Life, where culture, community, and academic excellence converge. This category offers a window into the dynamic student life at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, showcasing the traditions, events, and activities that define the HBCU experience.
From Greek life and cultural festivals to leadership opportunities and community service, discover what makes HBCU campuses unique. Whether you’re a current student, alumnus, or future attendee, immerse yourself in the stories and insights that celebrate the spirit of HBCU life.
All summer long (and, let’s be honest … maybe longer) you’ve been looking forward to the freedom that college dorm life offers new students. You can stay up late, there are no parents looking over your shoulder and telling you what to do … what could be better? But the reality is that moving away […]
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What do you want in an apartment? Before you even start the search, it’s important to narrow down what you’re searching for. Not with the budget (oh, the budget…) but in terms of what you want from the apartment itself. You can’t have everything you want, but if you’re clever, you can have most of
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Great things happen when you cultivate the contacts in your network. Collecting contact information is one thing. Leveraging the relationships you develop takes cultivation. That means communicating in a genuine, relevant way instead of worrying about the number of people in your phone or your social media followers. The key is to be thoughtful about
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Have you ever woken up groggy and tired from the night before? As college students, there are always factors that keep us up all night, whether it’s parties or pulling an all-nighter for a project that’s due the next day. But how much sleep should a college student receive? According to an article from the
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Surviving college as HBCU students truly means more than getting your college degree and going out in the world to get a job. It means more than accepting the conditions of the present just to say that you are a college student. What it does represent is the past battles that was began being waged
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As, you know we are in the worse financial crisis on a global scale that has ever been recorded. All over the world we are witnessing distress on this planet at an alarming rate. There are wars, famines, earthquakes, floods, and volcano eruptions that is signaling the changing of the seasons. Despite the bleak realities
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Implementing success into any aspect of your life requires; patience, diligence, perseverance, fortitude, hard work, passion, and little bit of luck. There are numerous of examples of individuals who were able to implement success into their college experiences. Take for example George Lewis Ruffin (1834-1886) who was the 1st black to graduate from Harvard University
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Your responsibility in this 21st century will hinge on being able to learn from many conceptual frameworks of study. You have to become an all around individual and that can mean being able to learn from many different sources of information. The times have presented themselves where all college students must incorporate finance as a
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