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Maximize your university experience with these tips for all things collegiate–how to achieve a perfect GPA, select the right major, finance your college education and more.
What Parents Should Know About Student Loans
Guide to Student Loans Are you in the initial stages of researching student loan options? Helping your children with a student loan, to provide them a better future is something most parents will want to do. Though what many won't realize is that there are downsides which could put you in a difficult financial situation.
By Bill Gassett6 years ago in Education
20 Best Life Advice Tips After College That You Need To Know
Every year more than 19.2 million students graduate college and enter the workforce worried about their life after graduation, and many have no idea where they intend to go as far as career, buying a home and savings.
By Silena Le Beau6 years ago in Education
Here are 5 Must Read MBA Essay Writing Tips
Do you want to pursue an MBA degree? Applying for top B-Schools? Well, before applying, you need to know that as part of the admission process, the aspiring MBA student needs to submit at least 1 MBA essay. The admission committees of B-Schools then use your essay along with other necessary documents for verification. The standard of the essay will determine whether you will get admission or not in the school. So, it’s essential for students to write an excellent essay to get admission. No matter how well you have scored in GMAT or other exams, your application may get rejected if you don’t produce a good piece of work.
By Adam Jackson6 years ago in Education
Some Questions That College Students Ask
Am I Good Enough? Everyone has asked this question at least once in their lives. We are always afraid of being not the best for something or somebody. The same goes for studying. A big amount of students think that they might not be able to make it through the year. How to deal with all the assignments? What to write in narrative paper? Even those, who have been taking the hardest AP classes still have this phobia. They say that there is a lot of people that have done that too, however, if you see the actual statistics, you will be shocked that in most of the cases you are not the worst, moreover, you are even in the “best of the best” part of the chart.
By Kate Misery6 years ago in Education
College Freshman's Insight on Structure, Organization and Their Ability to help a Writer Achieve Great Success Draft 1
Coyotes howling, bears scraping their claws against the ground, the sound of non-existent snow falling on the ground because it’s summer. It was a usual day in Tahoe. The clouds were beautiful as always and it was crisply warm outside because we were a mile closer to the sun that sea level and we were in the mountains creating a perfect weather temperature.
By Leo Kaiser6 years ago in Education
America, Truthful
This photo was taken inside of a hotel with this view. I was lucky enough to have gotten the hotel room for free because of my boyfriend but it made me think on some things. I realized how lucky I was just to have this moment, honestly any moment of luxury. The picture is of the Ferry Building, a building I used to walk past every single day on my way to school that became a normal thing in my eyes. In this moment, looking outside the hotel window at the Ferry Building in San Francisco, I realize where I had come from, what my life was like current moment, and where I had to go. I’m a current PhD candidate (a student that basically passed all academic work and now only has to defend her dissertation and do internship her fifth and final year of the doctoral program) in clinical psychology and my life had not been the easiest during my years in the program. In this program, I have been nearly homeless, starving (I lost 27lbs at one point and not in a healthy or meaningful way especially considering I weighed a healthy 130 when entering the program), had so many sleepless nights, couldn’t afford professional clothes but then was yelled at for not dressing professional, and my mental health was almost nonexistent. I had often contemplated suicide since that would erase my loans and no one would have to worry about paying them off. I also would have consistent panic attacks and would break down crying due to the amount of workload. I once worked a practicum site at Stanford and I remember when the workers laughed at the practicum students for how excited we used to be when there was left over food from caterers who would bring food for the families. The workers laughed until the day someone pointed out that the practicum students do not get paid to be here even though they stay here until 11pm some nights helping families. Instead of privileged, rich doctoral students, the practicum students are actually starving doctoral students who dedicated their lives to helping underrepresented populations receive the mental health care they need. The worker also stated how no one knows this because the practicum students would never complain because they feel it’s a privilege just to be here even though they’re all starving and overworked. That worker was entirely correct. Everything felt like privilege but also everything felt like a struggle. Taking this photo made me reflect on all of my struggles and how I was in that hotel room by pure luck. I felt I didn’t deserve to be there, I felt embarrassed that my boyfriend was the reason I was there. I’ve felt embarrassed that my boyfriend was also the reason I wasn’t homeless at one point. I had to learn how to allow others’ help during my program years, and my god was that a horrible feeling. However, now in my fourth year, after I have completed all of my doctoral courses, all four of my preliminary exams (those are like final exams times 10), my CPPR exam, my PhD research project, my dissertation proposal, and over 3,500 FREE hours of mental health services for underrepresented populations, I stared out that window and realized where I came from. My closest thing to support was my boyfriend and my mom. My boyfriend allowed me to miss two months rent because my financial aid was messed up, and I will still pay him back with my next refund, though I’ve been living off of $300 for the past two months. My mom does everything she can whether it’s sending food gift cards in the mail so I could have a meal or just giving the mental support to vent about dissertation. I had never let my mom know about my crises before so she wouldn’t be scared because I knew she couldn’t financially help me, which would kill her. Other than that, I didn’t have a support who would pay my way though school even though my loved ones wished they could. I had to do this on my own. I had to sink into mass amounts of debt just so I could go into this career that I desperately had to fight for. I want to help people, but I had to prove it. I had to barely survive financially, physically, and mentally to prove I wanted to help others. Which is great until I realize the moment I graduate, I’d owe mass amounts of debt back to the government (easily over 200-300k) and every pay check I’d make would go to rent, food, and loans. All I could say in this hotel room, when realizing this cage would be around my for years suffocating me, all I could say was “why is it like this?” I felt so thankful for being there but so trapped by this financial crisis. Our system is broke. It is not the same as it had been decades before, it is broken. I stared at the structure before me in this photo and felt everything at once. The pain, the struggle, the joy, and the gratitude. Though the biggest thought was that America needs to change, our system needs to change. I am definitely not the only one with this story. Every doctoral student you see whether it be MDs, JDs, PsyDs, PhD, or just any “Ds” has a similar struggle. We are trying to be the best we can be for this country though we are silenced. If you know someone who is in graduate school, go hug them, they may need it more than you know. If you can, offer them a meal and allow them to vent about their program, they may need a hot meal and a good vent more than literally anything in that moment.
By Selina Kyle6 years ago in Education
Simplest Yet Winning Assignment Format Suggested by Expert
Most students consider assignment writing difficult and to some extent, overwhelming. Therefore, they focus more on what they are writing and forget to pay attention to how they are writing it. A winning assignment writing involves loads of things and presenting your assignment paper with the right format is a vital part of it. Professional writers providing online assignment help in Australia have formulated the following structure for college assignment, which is luckily quite simple and easy to follow.
By John Noels6 years ago in Education
How to Choose the Right Structure for Descriptive Essay
This task requires them to devote their time, focus, and efforts to producing good papers hence guaranteeing them good grades. However, that is not the case when it comes to some types of essay assignments.
By Keran Mourning6 years ago in Education
Why You Should Consider Going Back to School
In the United States nearly 40 percent of working-aged Americans hold a college degree. That means that almost 60 percent don’t have a degree. This can be an alarming statistic for a lot of people. There is a trend of people getting more degrees than they did before. People are increasingly getting more education as new generations come of age. If you have already come and gone from college. Regardless of how you ended your college journey, you can gain lots of permanent value from returning to college at any point. Here are a few reasons why you can’t afford not to and how to go about it.
By James Robinson6 years ago in Education
