College Jolt

Risky Business- Racquetball

What are risky businesses? These are the activities and actions that put us on the edge of what we call comfortable, and that challenge us to stretch our limits. Life takes many forms, and inadvertently we take risks without realizing it. We avoid, to a certain degree, the risks that we do know about in order [...]

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College Insider: Presenting the Cover Letter

Whenever you finish something, you often think about what you could have done differently, better, or not at all. Your college years are some of the most important and fun years you can have, and you shouldn’t miss out on anything they have to offer. Lydia is our College Insider, and she will share things [...]

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Summer Prep ‘09: Choosing Classes for Your First Year

Since my little brother just graduated and is about to head off to the University of Florida (boo, Gators!) for his first semester of college, I decided it would be a timely undertaking to provide soon-to-be incoming freshman with a little advice. En route to Gainesville for pre-semester orientation, my brother’s last-minute questions all aimed [...]

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Collegelore: Put on your lucky underwear–it’s exam time!

Digging for Collegelore: Nina uncovers the strangest traditions, legends and rumors on campuses across the globe. Here she examines test-taking superstitions among college students. While there is rarely an empty seat to be found in the library come finals week, not all studying is the same. Every book-laden student has a unique set of studying techniques [...]

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Inside Penn State: University Park Students Speaks Out!

In our “Campus 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 Penn State at University Park!

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Gettysburg: The Stories that Aren’t Taught in History Class

One hundred and forty six years ago, at right around now, at 3:30 PM, Major General George Pickett started his famous charge in the battle of Gettysburg. Last Saturday, around 3:30 PM, I walked the short distance that is Pickett’s charge, and was surprised to think… how cool it was. I mean seriously, battlefields are [...]

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The Size of Your College: Choosing the Right Pond

College can be like thousands of colorful fish swimming in an enormous cluster in the Pacific Ocean, or a tiny school of goldfish, zooming around a pristine little pond. Decisions, decisions. High school students in search of their perfect postsecondary fit can be like fish finding a body of water to call home, except that [...]

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Karmatic Healing and Volunteering

Certainly we’ve all heard the saying “Karma: What Goes Around Comes Back Around.” On the same note, the symbol for karma is depicted as a circle with no end or no beginning, but instead just one continuous loop. I’m sure some of you reading this are thinking that you’ve done some pretty heinous [...]

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Simple Way to Make Money: Win a Contest

Money, money, money… from O’Jays’ R&B “For the Love of Money” to Pink Floyd’s funk rock “Money,” I guess we all get the message that “money isn’t everything, but without money, we can buy nothing!” We may not agree that college life is fun and exciting, but there is one conclusion all of us should [...]

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Writers You Should Read: Michael Chabon

In the ’80s, TV critic Neil Postman claimed that the invention of television had zapped the national print culture –– that our generation had stopped reading, that we couldn’t write for beans, and that to top it off, this made us “lousy citizens.” Harsh. I may be all for TV, but I am [...]

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