• Silly Things College Freshmen Say [Photos]

    Silly Things College Freshmen Say [Photos]

    Oh, to be a freshman again. I remember the days when I bought every single book for all of my classes, tried my best to finish all the reading assignments, and got the phone number of every single new person I met. I still have tons of random names in my phone. This new College Freshman meme is taking me back to those days. Here’s the best of the College Freshman meme – see anything you recognize?

  • Lessons from a Second Semester Senior

    Lessons from a Second Semester Senior

    As I write this, I am about to embark on my final semester of my college career. Weird, right? It almost seems like yesterday when I was a little freshman moving in to my dorm. Except for the growth part, a lot has changed in these three and a half years. I’ve learned the hardships of picking the right classes and managing my social life and my studies, but it was all worth the ride.

  • Made for College: Life Lessons I Learned in Kindergarten

    Made for College: Life Lessons I Learned in Kindergarten

    I wish I could have pressed rewind and told my six-year-old self to remember exactly how I felt on my first day of kindergarten because 12 years later I’d be retracing my steps as a freshman in college. Reason #4353453578768 why life should come with a remote.

  • The Freshman Experience: Getting into the Groove

    The Freshman Experience: Getting into the Groove

    While looking like a major n00b around campus for the first month or so is far from fun, there’s certainly more of a welcoming vibe from the upperclassmen. If you have yet to move in and make your mark in your classes and social circles, read carefully.

  • Lingo 101: An Intro to College Terms for Incoming Freshman

    Lingo 101: An Intro to College Terms for Incoming Freshman

    You’re off to college! Welcome to the world of crazy terms and way more abbreviations than you’d ever need. We decided to round up a bunch of typical campus words to ease your transition into the big time. Because how embarrassing would it be if you didn’t know what shacking was?! Ah, you’re welcome.

  • 5 Life Skills High Schools Should be Teaching Seniors

    5 Life Skills High Schools Should be Teaching Seniors

    Here’s something you probably already know…high school students aren’t exactly happy with their education. At least that’s what Jezebel is telling us. Apparently high school students feel like their education is not preparing them enough for college.

  • 5 Days Every College Girl Would Want to Relive

    5 Days Every College Girl Would Want to Relive

    When most people think of Groundhog Day, they probably picture a medium sized rodent climbing out of a hole in an attempt to determine whether we’re going to have an early spring, or if the mountains of snow are just going to keep on coming. But when we think of Groundhog Day, we think of Bill Murray.

  • Tuffy Luv Doesn’t Think You’re Better Than His Girlfriend

    Tuffy Luv Doesn’t Think You’re Better Than His Girlfriend

    Dear Tuffy Luv, It’s my freshman year of college and I started spending a lot of time with this boy on my floor. By a lot I mean we stay up until 3 a.m almost every night talking and he comes over to my room unannounced just to hangout, he texts me on weekends after I’ve gone out to hangout, and he flirts with me on the regular. Needless to say, I like him. The only issue is he has a girlfriend.

  • The Starting Line: Semester Two, Let’s Go

    The Starting Line: Semester Two, Let’s Go

    Considering that my last post looked back and cleared the slate for me to realize that my life has finally moved on past high school, it’s time to look ahead. And there’s no time like the present (with NYE looming ever so closely) to take everything I’ve learned this year and use it to change myself for the better.

  • The Starting Line: Taking Myself Seriously

    The Starting Line: Taking Myself Seriously

    I’ve decided recently, while lying naked in my bed after a shower (try it—it might just be the greatest thing about being home) that this break is 5% nostalgia, 25% catching some Z’s, 20% eating and 50% flat out weird.

  • The Starting Line: A College Education

    The Starting Line: A College Education

    Candy canes, hot chocolate and crowded libraries, they’re all synonymous with one thing–finals season is in the air (or for some at least, it’s already done with and they’re busy tanning their backsides in Barbados). Between writing papers (ew) and eating so much junk food that Cheetos dust is running through my bloodstream, I’ve had some time to reflect over semester one of my college experience.

  • We’ve All Been There: Poopin’ in Public

    We’ve All Been There: Poopin’ in Public

    Your boxes are unpacked, your bed is made, and your parents have left the building. You are officially a college student. Woohoo! No more living under their rules. You are a free adult livin’ the dorm life. It takes a few days of getting used to, but you’re finally feeling settled. You’ve even sorta mastered the cafeteria slop. This whole college thing isn’t so hard after all.

  • Surviving Senior Year: Freshmanisms

    Surviving Senior Year: Freshmanisms

    Now let me start this off by saying I have nothing against freshman. I volunteer at Orientation every year. I dutifully hand out identification cards and point them in the direction of the cafeteria/registrar/financial aid office. I’ll help them get through Writing 101. I’ll edit their articles. I’ll listen to their incessant chatter in the library with mild amusement. But um…well…actually, it’s probably a little bit more than mild amusement.

  • The Morning After: Halloween of Horrors

    The Morning After: Halloween of Horrors

    Freshman year Halloween. Is there anything scarier? I’m not talking about the orange and black jello shots or the DIY strobe lights and dry ice combo favored among frat house basements. No, the part that caused me to break out in a cold sweat and goosebumps was the daunting task of selecting the perfect costume.

  • A Freshman’s Guide to Halloween

    A Freshman’s Guide to Halloween

    Halloween in college is a big deal. Major, really. You may have thought you hit your trick-or-treating peak in the 3rd grade when you wrapped yourself in tinfoil and went out as leftovers, but think again.

  • The Starting Line: My Very First Midterm Season

    The Starting Line: My Very First Midterm Season

    So I’m new at this whole midterms thing. The idea that I’ve been more or less lounging around for the past 6 weeks and then – wham! – I’m hit with a test that’s worth 40% of my grade…that’s kind of crazy.