I’m 20 years old. The government doesn’t allow someone my age to buy a bottle of wine from Target, but for some reason, I’m supposed to have the rest of my life wrapped up neatly in a 30-second elevator pitch.
Browsing: College
There’s no shame if you and your roommate aren’t two peas in a pod.
College is ridiculously expensive, and it’s impossible for students who aren’t sitting upon piles of cash to spend their time outside of class dedicated to something that doesn’t offer anything in return. Experience just isn’t enough anymore.
You shouldn’t have to settle for something you don’t want. Raise your standards and search for more mature relationships.
An 18-year-old buying a gun should never happen. In our current decade, there is a pattern of mass shooters in the 15 to 25 age range.
Depending on the situation, having more or fewer roommates can work in your favor or against you.
When deciding who to live with, it is crucial to understand what things are essential to cultivating your ideal living space.
Branching out takes patience and consistency. Making friends in college is a process of trial and error. You are going to meet people who are vastly different from you, but despite those differences, you are going to find friends you connect with.
I was on a mission to become a “jack-of-all-trades,” but with that came the more unfortunate part of the saying “master of none.”
The freshman 15 holds a lot of weight — the phrase, that is. As college students and incoming freshmen, we are familiar with how commonly a change in appearance and body type is discussed.
It’s a question that almost every student will ask themselves when they graduate — how I am going to pay for student loans?
A few days ago, while eating lunch in the sub, I heard “Here Comes the Sun” by the Beatles, and I was immediately taken back to my childhood.
With the advent of the new year, so commences (and in many cases, continues) the quest for high school seniors across the nation to be accepted into some of the nation’s most prestigious institutions of higher learning.
“The true college,” writes the African-American author W.E.B. DuBois (in words etched in stone in the walkway at Brooks Residential College), “will ever have one goal – not to earn meat, but to know the end and aim of that life which meat nourishes.”
In “The Souls of Black Folk,” which contains the most eloquent defenses of liberal education ever written by an American, DuBois opposed the exclusion of African-Americans from the right to vote and from civic equality. But he objected equally to the exclusion of African-Americans from the pursuit of a truly liberal education, to their being limited to a merely instrumental education, and education in a trade.
One year before enrolling at Baylor for the 2010 fall semester, hospital corpsman Rachael “Doc” Harrelson was rendering aid to fellow shipmates in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Now Harrelson is more concerned about financial aid than rendering aid.
Vocational tracks in high school can now be discussed in history classes — because they seem to be a thing of the past.
However, like our Founding Fathers, who took lessons from history in shaping our nation, those who are creating educational policies today should take a long look at the past and reimplement vocational classes across the country.
For most students at Baylor, we have 126,227,704 seconds — or four years — in college.
Only 126,227,704 seconds to figure out exactly what we want to do and get the education so other people will let us do what we want to do.
That’s not very much time. We have to take X and Y and Z and ABCDEFG on top of that and that leaves very little time to really think about anything else.
As Baylor undergraduates, we must feed ourselves, clothe ourselves, rent apartments and purchase textbooks. We pay dues for extracurricular activities, pay for parking decals, and gas up our vehicles all by ourselves…or with the loving assistance of our parents. Regardless, somebody’s pocket is taking a major hit. But as tuition and fees continue to increase, are we really reaping any benefits, or just paving the way for future debt to ensue?
