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Fundamental questions

Some people are born knowing what they want to do forever; some fall into it. Others of us, like me, have to make a conscious effort to figure it out. College Round I, as I like to call it, began my...

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Battle bloggers A.D.D.

The great thing about a personal blog is also its downfall: it allows you the freedom to say what you’re thinking without prompts. If you’re not partaking in a single-subject blog (like this one) then...

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Online Education: Efficient and exhausting

I did my Associate’s in Communcations online with the University of Phoenix. I did this while working full-time as a hair stylist at an upscale salon in downtown Chicago. So what you can deduce from...

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Ground campuses going green

In efforts to be efficient and go green, many universities are adding more and more emphasis to being linked in. Aside from actual online universities, ground campuses are encouraging their students to...

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Skip the bookstore

Frustration boils at the beginning and end of each semester and students have to buy and resell their books. Waiting in lines wrapped around buildings, swarmed with students and parents alike with...

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How To: Stay productive under stress

Every student, adult or otherwise (but especially adult) knows what it’s like to have too much to do and not enough time, or energy, to do it. Unfortunately being ambitious doesn’t necessarily come...

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Student-to-(younger) student communication

It can be difficult as an older student, returning to school, to relate or communicate with others’ who are just beginning their college career at 18-years-old. Especially attending a ground...

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Adult student-to-teacher communication

courtesy of freedigitalphotos.net In addition to learning communication with your peers, communication with your professors, especially as an older student, is seemingly different. The good news is...

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Maintaining a work-life balance

Courtesy of freedigitalphotos.net It’s hard enough when you’re in the “real world” and working, making a commission or salary, to find the time to relax and have fun. Society teaches us, although it...

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Find your background noise

Courtesy of freedigitalphotos.net Did you ever notice that when you finally lock yourself in a room–with just the whispering sounds of a ceiling fan or crickets from outside or a distant train...

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