How to Save Money Without Sacrificing Your Social Life
When it comes to entertainment in college, it can seem like everything is expensive; but you don’t have to sacrifice fun to save your bank account! All it takes is some planning and self-control.
Thanks For The Memories [Confessions of a Twenty-Something]
Everyone has moments from long ago that they’d rather forget — painful memories that make us shiver or cry or cringe, but those are the memories that teach us how to live and be the best versions of ourselves today. Our memories and history help define who we are today.

10 Tips To Survive Your First College Party
Mny students will be spending this week attending something they’ve only seen about in Animal House or in a completely inaccurate scene on ABC Family – their first college party.
Econ 101: The Dating Game
Here’s a lesson they probably won’t teach you in college: The Economics of Dating. What’s the fundamental lesson they teach you in Econ? Why, supply and demand of course. More of a product, means less of a demand, while less of that exact same product causes people to want it like whoa. Now apply that to dating.
College Q&A: Help Me Balance School and Fun
Question: Next month will be my second year at my new college. This past semester I didn’t do anything fun. I was miserable and studied the whole time. I came out with a 3.8 but no new friends. How can I balance schoolwork and get out and meet people at the same time?
College Myths Debunked: Some Hair of the Dog That Bit You
It’s no secret that much of the college social life revolves around drinking. We drink to celebrate, mourn, express loyalty to our football teams, to ease boredom, hell, some people drink to make homework a little more interesting. Well, all that super fun drinking sometimes results in not-so-fun consequences, like the raging, horrific hangover trying to escape your brain by splitting it open.
No Facebook = Social Suicide?
I don’t trust people who aren’t on Facebook. It’s weird, I know, but FB is like peanut butter and jelly: you must be some sort of freak if you’ve never tried it. (OK, or you have some severe allergy, but that doesn’t fit with my analogy so let’s move on.) Facebook is at the epicenter of our generation’s world, so anyone who isn’t on there is weird, right?

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