College Students

Today I'm Wondering, Why Didn't I Invent Facebook?

Ilana Ross | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Facebook, Millennial Millionaire, College Students, College Students Millennials, Millennials Facebook, Young Millionaires, Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, Millennials, College News

As Facebook goes public, and more children become millionaires, it's easy to wonder what I did wrong that led me to where I sit now: 24-years-old and not a published dime store comic book to my name.

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WATCH: 10 Year-Old Goes To College

Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: College Students, Video, Mexicans, Dafne Almazán Anaya, Genius Kids, Smart Kids, Mexico, Gifted Programs, Mexican, Latino Prosperity, Gifted Children, Latino Education, Latino Voices News

10 year-old Dafne Almazán Anaya is Mexico's youngest college student. She is currently enrolled at the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey ("Technolo...

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How I'm Repaying $120,000 in Student Loans

Credit.com | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: College Students, Debt, Student Debt, College, Student Loans, Loans, Student Loan Debt, College News

Six months after graduation, my grace period will end, and I will have to start repaying more than $1,000 per month. Here is my strategy for repayment.

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ING Retirement Coach on Graduates' Failure to Launch

Jacob Gold | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: College Students, Retirement Planning, Personal Finance, Financial Advice, Boomerang Effect, College Graduation, Boomerang Generation, Generation Y, College Graduates, Money News

The beauty of the boomerang is that after sending it off, it comes right back to its original destination. In the case of parents sending their children to college -- or the workforce -- and having them return home, the effect might not have the same "beauty."

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Second Contact: Would We Go Back?

David Behling | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: College Students, Aliens Left Hand of Darkness, College Classes, Aliens Mars Is Heaven, Aliens Arena, Aliens Books College Students, Aliens First Contact Murray Leinster, Aliens Contact, College News

A spacecraft from Earth enters the Crab Nebula and finds the last thing they were expecting: a spacecraft from another planet, exploring the same part of space. A standoff results because neither spaceship has the ability to destroy the other.

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Food 101: Why College Students Should Learn How to Cook

Will Levitt | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: College Students, Food, Food Movement, College, Students, Wesleyan, Cooking, Cooking Classes, KitchenDaily News

Too many students leave college without any knowledge of how to cook for themselves. Learning how to microwave instant ramen is not a cooking skill. When we enter the real world, we need to be able to provide for ourselves.

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5 Credit Card Rules for New Grads

Credit.com | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: College Students, Graduation, Credit Card, Credit, Student Debt, College, Credit Card Debt College Students, Money News

If you just graduated, you might be looking forward to managing money on your own. Certainly, it's deliciously liberating. But it can also be tricky.

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Obama's Barnard Remarks Fall Flat With Some Students

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: College Students, Women's Colleges, College Affordability, Student Loans, Barack Obama, Barnard College, Education, Video, Columbia University, Commencement 2012, College, College News, Debora Spar, Graduation 2012, Barack Obama Barnard, Election 2012, College News

NEW YORK -- President Barack Obama's commencement address Monday at Barnard College was filled with moments reminiscent of the 2008 presidential camp...

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Six Pieces Of Wisdom And Advice For College Grads, Inspired By And Borrowed From Norman Lear

Caty Borum Chattoo | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: College Students, Graduation, Education, College Graduation, College, Career Advice, Higher Education, Advice for Grads, Becoming-Fearless, Norman Lear, College News

So much of my "wisdom" or, more accurately, just "stuff that I say," comes from the actual wisdom of the great mentor of my life, the incomparable Norman Lear. Graduation season is the perfect time to share Norman's "Norman-isms."

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Raising Interest Rates? But Students Are Already in Debt

Kaitlyn Ridel | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Elections 2012, Student Loan Interest Rates, College Students, College Tuition, Congress, College Debt, College, Stafford Loans, College Loans and Debt, College Loans, College News

I am a college student who is really tired of hearing Congress argue about college. This week Senate Republicans rejected a bill preventing interest rates on federal student loans from doubling July 1.

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Friday Night Lights Author Wants To Ban College Football

Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: College Students, Change My Mind, College Athletes, Ban College Football, College Football Costs, College Change My Mind, College Costs, College Athletics, Roi of College, Rutgers University, College Football, Malcolm Gladwell, Cost of Football, Buzz Bissinger, Rutgers Football, Friday Night Lights, College News

Buzz Bissinger, perhaps the most famous chronicler of high school football, is calling for a ban on college football, The Gothamist reports. The P...

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Why Are Millennials Leaving The Church?

Robert P. Jones, Ph.D. | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: College Students, Religiously Unaffiliated, Christianity, Church, Millennials, Religion in America, Catholic Church, Religion News

Pastors and priests seeking to fill their pews with young churchgoers have a tough task ahead. Many younger Millennials have already moved away from the religion in which they were raised, mostly joining the growing ranks of the religiously unaffiliated.

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Occupy-Style Repression Hits Brooklyn College, My Home

Matthis Chiroux | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: College Students, Protest, Occupy Wall Street, Police Brutality, Brooklyn College, Activists Arrest, Occupy Brooklyn College, Occupy New York, Politics News

Let this also be a wake-up call to administrators around the country. Let this be a wake-up call to students around the country who value their education and freedom on their campuses to mobilize and lay claim to all which they are entitled to.

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Grading Time: I Give Up, You're All Exceptional

Rebecca Schuman | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Student Life, College, College Professors, Academia, College Grades, Grade Inflation, Final Exams, Grades, College Students, College News

It's that magical time in collegiate life when the sum total of a student's achievement is quantified in a series of letters. And these days, those letters are usually A's.

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'The Governments Had Better Get Out of the Way'

Annelle Sheline | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Dialogue, Dwight Eisenhower, Arab Spring, Egypt Revolution, College of Charleston, College Students, Egypt, Egypt-US-Relations, International Relations, Video, World News

A video dialogue took place between American students at the College of Charleston, and Egyptian students, primarily from the American University in Cairo. Discussion centered on the students' experiences of the Arab Spring, as well as Egypt's on-going political transition.

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Putting Economics Back in Home Economics

Natalia Emanuel | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: College Students, Taxes, Credit, Saving Money, Home Economics, Economics, Personal Finance, College News

My parents messed up. Or perhaps my prestigious high school and university did. Maybe I've been oblivious. But somehow I'm 21 -- a legal adult -- and an economics major, yet I don't know the first thing about anything related to money.

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Federal Student Loan Legislation Turns To Partisan Fight

AP | ALAN FRAM | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: College Students, Federal Student Loans, Jack Reed Student Loans, Student Loan Reform, Student Debt, Majoring in Debt, Student Loans, Student Loan Debt, Jack Reed, College News

WASHINGTON — The Senate is the newest arena in the election-year face-off over federal student loans, and both sides are starting out by poundin...

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6 Simple Ways to Make Boxing Your Dorm Room Easier

Mark Gilman | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: College Students, Dorms, Dorm Room, Packing Tips, College, Packing, College News

It's among the least desired tasks college students face, and it's often done in a hurried, panicked rush. But it doesn't have to be. Take all the stress out of the end-of-the-year move with six simple steps.

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Measuring the Value of a Degree and the Purpose of College

Jeff Selingo | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: College Students, Online Learning, College Admissions, Jeff Selingo, College, The Chronicle of Higher Education, College Degree, College News

What happens to the value of the college degree when top universities are essentially giving away some of their courses free?

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What Do Today's Students Think About the Future of Higher Ed? You Might Be Surprised

Jeff Selingo | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: College Students, College Costs, College Majors, Khan Academy, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Higher Education Students, Higher Education Reform, Higher Education Curriculum, College News

In the last month, I have talked with students at six institutions that represent nearly every corner of our diverse higher-ed system. My goal was to engage the students in the debates that seem to be swirling around them but so often don't include them.

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Redefining Sexual Assault

North by Northwestern | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Northwestern University, Sexual Assault, College, State Laws, College Students, Rape Laws, Rape, College News

As part of the campus dialogue on sexual assault during Northwestern's Take Back the Night campaign, we take a look at the ways in which sexual assault is an issue in terms of policies and politics.

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The New Student Battle Cry: Don't Double My Rate!

Rich Williams | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Interest Rates, College Students, Obama, Student Loan Debt, Student Loans, College, Barack Obama, Stafford Loans, College Affordability, Student Loan Rates, Paying for College, Students, Pell Grants, College News

The media and the country are just waking up to the alarming fact that unless Congress acts by July 1, the interest rate on subsidized Stafford student loans will double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. Congress must not let that happen.

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#Top10 Hashtags That Your #Professors Should Search

Perry Binder | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: College Students, Social Media, Twitter, College, College News, College Humor, Teachers, College Success, Facebook, Students, Classroom, College News

I actually don't mind when students are #textinginclass, but often wonder what I'm missing out on. My students are quick to point out how out of touch their professors are.

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Sex and the Syllabus: The Paradox of Undergraduate Sexuality

Rebecca Schuman | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Pornography, College Students, Unnecessary Censorship, Arizona Politics, College Professors Tenure, College, Sexuality, College News

I blame the Paradox: Various factors have caused This Generation to be ultra-sexualized, and yet said sexualization remains highly stigmatized and nobody wants to let us talk about it in the classroom. This is not just an annoying precedent, but a dangerous one.

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When Everyone Gets a Trophy, No One Wins

Michael Sigman | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Lake Wobegon, Interest Rates, College Students, Private School Students, Inflation, Garrison Keillor, Elementary School, Huey Long, The Fed, Grade Inflation, Kindergarten, Education News

The nation has become a self-parodic reflection of Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon: thanks to collusion between parents and educators, the vast majority of all private school children are virtually guaranteed to be above average.

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