• How Friendly Is Too Friendly With Professors?

    How Friendly Is Too Friendly With Professors?

    I’m a big proponent of being friendly with your professors because obviously if you’re a jerk and act like you don’t care, it’s going to reflect in your grades. However, there are some students who are buddy buddy with their professors, and sometimes that can get a little weird. I’m not sure how I feel about getting meals or hanging out with my professor.

  • 10 Stories Every College Kid Has

    10 Stories Every College Kid Has

    No matter if your school is comprised of baseball caps or plaid shirts, pearls or feather earrings, Big 10 football or frolf; there are some stories from college that cease to differ. When you put thousands of kids aged 18-22 in a close proximity for four years, there are going to be repeat offenses and plenty of stories to tell from them.

  • 8 Celebrities We Wish Were Our Professors

    8 Celebrities We Wish Were Our Professors

    My college has some great professors (and needless to say, some horrible ones), but ever since the UK College of Humanities decided to hire 7 new celebrity professors, I couldn’t help but think about what celebrities my school could hire to teach some out-of-the-ordinary (and really unnecessary) classes.

  • 10 Reasons I’d Let My Professor Sit At The Cool Table

    10 Reasons I’d Let My Professor Sit At The Cool Table

    You walk into “The Application of Platonic and Hegelian Ethics to Business” (It’s exhausting just saying the name, isn’t it?), an extra credit symposiums, take your seat between the girl who raises her hand every five seconds and the guy who comes to class only to fall asleep, pull out your books and suppress a yawn.

  • The Weekly Ten: Starting the Semester…Or Not

    The Weekly Ten: Starting the Semester…Or Not

    It’s not the beginning of the semester I’m opposed to. It’s the beginning of classes.

  • A Few Ideas for Improving the Professor/Student Relationship

    A Few Ideas for Improving the Professor/Student Relationship

    Raul Ramos, a professor at the University of Houston, acknowledged his total disconnect from campus life during his first 8 years at the university. He then — along with his wife, kids, and 2 dogs — moved into an on-campus dorm in an effort to become more acclimated with the students and their college life.

  • Surviving Senior Year: Avoid Application Anxiety

    Surviving Senior Year: Avoid Application Anxiety

    This is not a full proof guide to getting into grad school. In fact, it’s not a guide to getting into grad school at all. (I may have finished the applications but I haven’t gotten into any of the programs yet…) These are just some tips, things I wish I knew before I started the application process.

  • Weekly Wrap Up: Operation Stress Mode

    Weekly Wrap Up: Operation Stress Mode

    This time of year is so stressful. I’m so stressed out, I’m stressing about all of the TV shows I have to try and DVR every day. Job interviews are flooding my planner (yay), senior thesis papers are suffocating my existence, and trying to wiggle time to party with my closest friends before graduation is like trying to fit a fat man in a small jacket (nearly impossible).