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Maximize your university experience with these tips for all things collegiate–how to achieve a perfect GPA, select the right major, finance your college education and more.
Higher Education and the Existential Crisis
It's 10:08 AM on a Tuesday morning. I don't yet know if not bringing a jacket was a mistake or not because they're aren't windows in the lecture theatre. I think about how much worse my day will be if I have to not only sit through five hours of drudgery but five hours of drudgery with sopping wet hair.
By Hannah Davenport8 years ago in Education
2017 OPSEU Strike
I'm a student at Algonquin College's Woodroffe campus in Ottawa, Ontario, and I, along with 200,000 other full-time students, have been unable to attend class for a week. Starting at 12:01 AM on Monday, October 16, 2017, 12,000 college professors walked away from their jobs and went on strike.
By Kyle Stumpo8 years ago in Education
What It's Like to Be a First-Year Uni Student
It's extremely hard. That's what your high school teachers will tell you. They'll tell you how you'll have to learn to balance your time. That you can't party all night, sleep all day, skip lectures, and expect to pass with flying colours. For the most part, they're right.
By Sydney Faith8 years ago in Education
The Complete List of Student Loan Forgiveness Programs and Options
I dropped out of college, which I don't regret. I didn't have to pay anything, since I was given a full ride to the college I attended. However, I've seen the effects of what student loans do to people who have graduated — as well as dropouts who didn't get the same luxury as I did.
By Ossiana Tepfenhart8 years ago in Education
Understanding Students
In today's society, a student is considered, by some, nothing more than a young adult trying to elongate the idea of childhood by staying in education and avoiding as much responsibility as they can. Wrong! I, myself, am a student, and most of us students are trying harder than most adults have to nowadays. Go to lectures, get a job, look after yourself, eat properly, and my personal favorite, stop going out so much. We've all been told throughout school that going to university will help make us more employable. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure it's true, but I will let you know when I get the job I spent three years and a heck of a lot of money working for. Currently, I don't really have a job, and the opportunities are so bountiful. I mean I get the amazing choice of where I want to do bar work if it ever takes my fancy. Lucky me.
By Murdo Searle8 years ago in Education
6 Tips Every Student Should Learn to Save Money at University
According to savethestudent.org, an estimated 84% of the UK’s student’s worry about money troubles and making ends meet throughout the year. Next to rent, food is the highest cost a student has to factor into their budget during term time, leaving some students unable to afford food at all, because their rent has swallowed up nearly all of their loan. With 61% of student’s claiming their diet is suffering and a whopping 50% of those student’s saying its affecting their mental health, leading to a drop in grades, I think it’s high time we did something about it!
By Chloe McClements8 years ago in Education
University 'Freshers' Week Anti-Survival Guide
If you’re like me and perhaps you’re sick of hearing about ‘freshers’ as the start of the university year approaches, that’s probably the natural reaction. I have never been much of a party-person or a person-person, and if you’re like me, every time you hear the word ‘freshers’ being brought up in a conversation, it sounds like hell-on-earth. That would be an accurate way to describe it.
By Matthew Ahern8 years ago in Education
First Year College Nightmare
When people think of moving away from home, and taking their first step into the world as an adult, most would feel excited. Even though I enjoyed my family and being home, I was also looking forward to the new experience. My main fear was making friends.
By Taylor Shipley8 years ago in Education
10 Tips to Help You Fail University
People often talk about how to be great at various different things, but rarely does one come across an article talking about how to fail at something. Until now. You, dear reader, are about to be taught how to fail at something, possibly for the first time in your life. You're welcome.
By Justin Tavares8 years ago in Education
The Graduation Freak Out!
So... It's nearly midnight and I am listening to Adele (Never a wise move if your already in a musing frame of mine!) and I've come to the terrifying conclusion that I am actually graduating tomorrow. This sounds like a rather stupid thing to say as factually that's correct and it shouldn't be a terrifying notion it should be an exciting one. However until this very moment, the very night before I graduate, I hadn't fully comprehended what that means. It means the safe three years that have guided me to this moment are now officially behind me. Yes, it means I have to enter the real world but it also leaves me with a nauseous sense of being untethered from the ground, like being up in an air ballon. The friendships, the turmoils, the laughter. Goddamn it, even the lie-ins, drunken regrets, and, god forbid, the communal food shops and cleaning rotas are behind me!
By Beth Wilkinson8 years ago in Education
