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2 months ago

Top Seven Holiday Gifts of 2011

HEADS UP: the holidays are coming so you’d best start preparing.  It’s time to give and receive, and that inevitably means that a good amount of loving thought and hard-earned cash will be going into the venture.  We thought we’d offer some suggestions to prime you for the season to be jolly.

Top Gifts to Give:  Your family misses you (even if they really don’t, odds are that they will say that they do) so consider giving them something that shows that you miss them (even if you really don’t, just suck it up for a little while.)

CONSIDER GIVING

- Anything homemade: this

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2 months ago

Top 7 Tips – When Working Out Has to Work Out!

Don’t you hate it when the rain, sleet and snow stop on workout day?  Take this morning, for example.  It was a scheduled run day, but the early downpour meant that the workout could be cancelled.  That’s fair, isn’t it?  Who can be expected to jog in the sopping wet?  One could

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2 months ago

Finding Your Homeys in College

College changes everything. You may be the same person that you were when you left high school, but everything that surrounds you will be different. Having a variable schedule each day that you can choose, designing an academic program that consists of courses that are required as well as

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3 months ago

7 Ways to Study While Chaos Reigns

You know what it’s like. You’re in a dorm room and your roommate is jamming to music, beating a tattoo on the walls.  Next door—through the dried toast walls—your neighbors are having a loud discussion about…who knows what?  Folks in the hall are arguing over their favorite music groups.

And you’re trying to STUDY. Hah!

OR…you’re

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3 months ago

Don’t Forget About Sleep: A Body Can’t Run on Beer and Pizza Alone

You are going to classes, right? – Check

You are making time for studying, researching and writing projects, right? – Check

You are selflessly giving of yourself by showing up at the Uni pubs and bars and clubs on a regular basis, right? – Check

You are keeping in touch with your family (they always worry about you),

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3 months ago

7 Steps to Deal with a Terrible Professor

We all encounter him sooner or later:  The T. Rex of professordom, who is a tyrant, a miserable grader, a petty dictator. The instructor who can’t teach his way out of a paper bag due to incoherent lectures, disorganized classes, or mumbled and arcane lectures.  In a word, a terrible professor.

If you haven’t met up with this

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3 months ago

How to Avoid Murdering your Alarm Clock

Some of us struggle with getting out of bed in the mornings. Okay, most of us struggle. But how can a hike across campus on a blustery day to get to a lecture as dry as toast compete with the mattress that warmly supports you and the blankets that caress you in their folds? Really, it can’t. But a student has gotta do what a student has

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