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Stop Telling Me Who To Become

July 24, 2014

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I thought it would end in my senior year, but I was wrong. I was making casual conversation with a woman and she asked about post-grad plans. When I told her, she looked at me with disgust. You’re going to do what? I told her that I wanted to teach for a while then become […]

How Teachers Can Prevent Disability Discrimination

August 28, 2013

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I remember dreading P.E. in 5th grade pretty clearly. This wasn’t because of the class itself- back then I would have preferred dodgeball to painting or singing any day. I dreaded P.E. because of the coach I had to deal with. Every day, he did something that made me feel less and less like a […]

The Positive Guide to Affordable College Textbooks

July 21, 2013

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Textbooks are the bane of every college student’s existence. Expensive, sometimes rarely used, but absolutely necessary, they can take quite a chunk out of your budget. Use these helpful hints to save on textbook expenses this semester. First and most importantly, shop around. Ask if any of your friends took the class before and have […]

Embrace the youth because they are the future

July 20, 2013

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Who they really are Every generation has the assumption that the newest generation is up to no good. This ageist mindset portrays the youth as not being able to have an opinion or lacking abilities to progress. These bias attitudes prevent the youth from doing anything positive. If we treat the youth like they are […]

How accurate is Ratemyprofessor.com?

June 20, 2013

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College can be daunting. You enter classrooms that could potential fill hundreds of students and you work your butts off to the point where you can collapse on the bed or the couch. But college is also a fun, rewarding experience where you learn to become an independent adult and you make lifelong friends. With […]

Five Things You Learn Through Study Abroad

June 13, 2013

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  1. How to test your limits You’re sure to learn a lot about yourself during study abroad. Despite all of the communication tools available and the safety of the program, your personal safety net will be gone. There’s no option to go home or, sometimes, to go anywhere at all. Typically, you live with […]

The Roadblocks to Growing Up

May 5, 2013

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  If you are between the ages of 18-29, congrats this article is for you. Right now you are getting to know yourself and figuring out exactly what you want to do in life. This is the time period in life when you are more focused on yourself than any other time period in your […]

The Pressure To Succeed

May 4, 2013

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There have been times where I’m sitting in my sweats, watching some trashy reality show, and sulk in my ability to do nothing for the day. In my attempts to connect with the world, I’ll hover over to Facebook to see what’s going on and I’ll see my friends posting about their accomplishments. These accomplishments […]

The Misconceptions of Positive Life Events: Graduation

May 3, 2013

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I see it on Facebook all time from my friends who are seniors and ready to graduate college. They are scared about finding a job, eager to get out of college, and afraid of the road ahead. The misconception with graduation is that college graduates are happy to graduate. While they might be ready to […]