It's been 12 years since I promised my mother I would go to college. No one in my family has a college degree, so it's up to me to be the voice of encouragement and experience for the next generation.
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Posted 05.26.2012
High school juniors and seniors: We hear you. Over the past few months, you've been overloaded with unsolicited college advice from parents, teachers...
The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 03.29.2012
If you're thinking of dropping out of college because it costs too much, don't. College pays off. People who don't go to college suffer from a life...
Diane Gayeski, Ph.D. | Posted 05.29.2012
It's that exquisitely anxious time of the year when high school students applying to colleges are getting their acceptance letters and trying to decide where to spend the next four years of their time and most of their parents' life savings.
Patrick O'Connor | Posted 04.27.2012
Some colleges have graduation requirements, including specific core academic courses all students must take, while others have no core requirements at all.
Nya Marie | Posted 11.15.2011
Trying to get into college is like wildly jumping up and down, doing anything and everything to be noticed, hoping the one you want will pick you. Add to that a wannabe "Tiger Mom" and it's enough to drive you crazy. That's my life.
Lisa Solod | Posted 10.24.2011
My daughter will be fine, I tell myself. She will be fine, she tells herself. And yet the ache of longing for both of us makes us, if only for a moment, wish to stay put in our safe harbor, to stand fast in the life we have made.
Nancy Berk, Ph.D. | Posted 08.31.2011
Like childbirth, everyone has an opinion when it comes to launching the last child. People say it will be very quiet. Apparently, this is a bad thing.
USA Today | Posted 05.25.2011
Debbie Crave once assumed that all of her children would go to college. Then she had kids. Son Patrick is a junior at the University of Wisconsin-M...
Darielle Trotter | Posted 05.30.2012