This is a guest post by Louise Baker. If you want to guest post on this blog, click here to get more information. Unless you’re going to a local college and staying at home, going off to college can cause its fair share of separation anxiety. Depending on which university you choose, you may not [...] Read more »
5 Student Tips to a Successful College Tour
OK, I’m a parent of a college student so I do have some experience with going through the college process and have taken many a college tour. I’ve also been through the process multiple times as a student myself. I only say this to let you, the future college student know, that there are some [...] Read more »
5 Parental Tips to a Successful College Tour
If you have ever had to coordinate a college tour trip, it is important that you plan ahead. I’ve had the pleasure (yes, I actually enjoy it) of doing this on a number of occasions with my eldest child, who is now attending her first choice college, and now we are embarking on the same [...] Read more »
A Whimsical Depiction of Student Life
I have two daughters, one is a sophomore in high school and the other is a sophomore in college. Needless to say, they both work hard and live the student life. My youngest daughter sent me the image seen below. I would like to cite the source but I don’t have one. If anyone does [...] Read more »
Combating alarming anxiety levels in college students
In late January of 2011 the NY Times published an article entitled “Record Level of Stress Found in College Freshmen”. They cite a number of factors including more pressure to perform in the later years of high school as well as the state of the economy. The study involved responses from more than 200,000 incoming [...] Read more »
Interview with former dean of MIT, Dr. Isaac Colbert
What compels an individual to reach the top of their profession? What are the influences during their childhood and adolescence that define their work ethic and their drive for success? It’s a question that any of us who strive for success are fascinated by. In this post I will pose some questions to one of [...] Read more »
Separation Anxiety – How are you dealing with your child away at college?
Over a year ago, our daughter left for college as a freshman. As parents we certainly felt the pangs of separation anxiety in the days, weeks, and months that followed that dramatic day of drop-off. She was about to experience a new adventure in her life and we, as parents, were about to do the [...] Read more »
7 Practical Time Management Tips for College Students
This is a guest post by Carrie Oakley. If you want to guest post on this blog, click here to get more information. They’re not known for their promptness or punctuality, and they’re perceived to be laid back and casual in everything they do. However, not every college student fits this stereotype – most of [...] Read more »
3 Money Saving iPhone Apps for the College Student
This is a guest post by Roger Elmore. If you want to guest post on this blog, click here to get more information. Whoops, parents told you to save all that extra loan money for more important things like books, but you indulged and bought yourself a fancy iPhone. Your parents will get over it, [...] Read more »
Beauty Education Gets a Makeover
This is a guest post by Dawn Papandrea. If you want to guest post on this blog, click here to get more information. Going to beauty school always came with a certain stigma, namely that it was a fall back for those who couldn’t make it at “real” college. And remember the song “Beauty School [...] Read more »