College Jolt

Inside Pitt– Students Speak Out!

In our “College Insider” series, we’ll be profiling a new college each week, giving you the inside scoop straight from the students who go there. This week we’re giving you the skinny on the University of Pittsburgh, a city within a city!

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Catholic College Rankings Compared

See How City Schools Stack Up! There are over 200 Catholic colleges and universities in the United States that educate more than 900,000 students each year according to the US Department of Education. So how do you pick where to apply and where to attend? We narrowed down the list to schools with urban campuses using [...]

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Campus clubs, founded by a butterfly. (Or, why you should join).

The true definition of networking – according to one of my close companions, dictionary.com – reads: a supportive system of sharing information and services among individuals and groups having a common interest.  Networking varies from a Facebook friend request to establishing a connection on LinkedIn.  My series will explore the abundant ways to network. Hurriedly walking to [...]

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Interpersonal Communications: A Return to Habitat

Interpersonal Communications (IPC) is the cornerstone of human interaction; knowing how to do it right, or at least how to do it well, is essential to having and maintaining smooth relationships throughout life. This series is dedicated to highlighting and discussing different areas and issues of IPC, and methods of dealing with them. In this [...]

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Interpersonal Communications: Campus Minority

What could the racial atmosphere of the 1940s possibly have to do with our 21st century college life? Well, not a whole lot really…except for the unlawful internment of Japanese-Americans and the thousands of African-Americans who fought to protect rights that did not apply to them back home in the States. But what could these [...]

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