College Jolt

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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Five Tips For Beating the College Apps Stress

As a senior in high school, you will enjoy senior prom, experience the feeling of being the “leader” of your high school, and gain freedoms that come along with turning eighteen. However, you will also face college applications, and often times there is a magnitude of stress that comes along with these dreaded online forms. [...]

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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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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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A Pass on Partying: Sobreity is Not Social Leprosy

“No, thanks. I don’t drink.” Some may believe these words halt traffic at the typical university – after all, isn’t college just one giant party in which students occasionally take break to go to class? (I love this myth, especially when I am up to my ears in papers and finals.) With [...]

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Soup of the Day: Cram Chowder

So you did it again. It’s 2am, your third cup of coffee is coursing through your veins, and you have just sat at your pigsty of a desk. You crack your knuckles, open up your notebook, and start studying for the test you have the next day at the crack of dawn. Little do you know [...]

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What are AP classes worth anyway?

So, what’s the point in taking those hard Advanced Placement classes in high school anyway? I remember when I was in high school, I took them mostly because those were the classes that all my friends were taking, and because my mum kept telling me that they looked really good on my transcripts. I think all [...]

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College Insider: Revamping your Resume

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 [...]

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Athletes, Bands, Drama Productions – Does It Really Make A Difference On My College Application?

What is that feeling that accompanies the dreaded college applications? It’s the thing all college admissions offices warn against; it’s the feeling that people talk to psychiatrists about; it’s stress. Most high school seniors stress while filling out their college applications, because they have no idea who will be reading their application, or what their [...]

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