• Senior Year: Schedule Your Schoolwork Around Your Social Calendar

    Senior Year: Schedule Your Schoolwork Around Your Social Calendar

    How do I maximize my social life without jeopardizing my schoolwork? It seems like every night there’s an invite to go to some senior bar night, someone’s 21st, or some party.

  • Dorm Room Workout: Balancing Act

    Dorm Room Workout: Balancing Act

    Winter brings along one serious danger to ladies and their cute shoes everywhere – ice. Even in sensible shoes with good traction, ice can make your short walk to class a slippery disaster. So to help prevent you from falling over and spilling the contents of your bag all over the sidewalk, I’ve put together some simple balance exercises.

  • Friday Faves: The Feminist’s Dating Dilemma

    Friday Faves: The Feminist’s Dating Dilemma

    Recently, a few of my friends and I got into a bit of a disagreement over who pays on a date. Although a few people agreed with me that if the relationship is long-term, the couple should split the costs for practical reasons (after all, especially if you’re on a college budget, it’s hard to bear the burden of all expenses), the overall consensus was that the guy should always pay at first. Some said the first date, some the first three dates, and others advocated up to the first year.

  • The Feminist’s Dating Dilemma

    The Feminist’s Dating Dilemma

    Recently, a few of my friends and I got into a bit of a disagreement over who pays on a date. Although a few people agreed with me that if the relationship is long-term, the couple should split the costs for practical reasons (after all, especially if you’re on a college budget, it’s hard to bear the burden of all expenses), the overall consensus was that the guy should always pay at first. Some said the first date, some the first three dates, and others advocated up to the first year.

  • Can We Really “Have It All”?

    Can We Really “Have It All”?

    Our generation has been taught over and over again that we can do anything and everything we want as long as we try, but is that really true? Is it possible to balance stellar grades, awesome friends, your fave hobbies, a significant other, and a healthy bod with only 24 hours in a day?

  • Board Games and Booze: You Can’t Go Wrong!

    Board Games and Booze: You Can’t Go Wrong!

    We’ve all played the typical card-related party games: Kings, F*** the Dealer, Up and Down the River. We’ve also played games that require plastic Solo cups and a lot of clean-up: Flip Cup, Beer Pong, Beirut. But there is still a world of party entertainment out there that remains in the shadows of these Drinking Game Giants.

  • Money Matters: 5 Easy Ways to Boost Your Credit Score

    Money Matters: 5 Easy Ways to Boost Your Credit Score

    It’s easy to throw down your MasterCard and forget about how much your text books cost for…

  • How You Do: Balancing Your Budget

    How You Do: Balancing Your Budget

    If the last time you opened up your checkbook to track your expenses was around the same time you s…

  • Money Matters Lesson 1: Free Student Checking

    Money Matters Lesson 1: Free Student Checking

    [College kids are notorious for being poor. And why shouldn't we be? We take out student loans to…

  • Grad School: Is it For You?–Check Your Ego at the Door

    Grad School: Is it For You?–Check Your Ego at the Door

    By my senior year of college, I could fly through my assignments and earn A’s on half-asse…

  • Walking Gracefully In High Heels: A Simple Trick

    Walking Gracefully In High Heels: A Simple Trick

    So you have a big dance coming up, or just a big night out, but you’re tottering around prec…

  • Give the Boy a Break!

    Give the Boy a Break!

    Sometimes a guy comes along that makes your chest fill with butterflies and causes the words in y…