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Adulting with Money
Being responsible with money is one of the biggest steps into maturity, but sometimes sticking to it isn’t as easy as it sounds. For freshmen in college, who may not have any experience with freedom of their finances before, it’s so easy to be sucked into social...
5 Tips On How To Manage and Save Money In College
Budgeting money and planning for expenses is not easy as a college student. Books, tuition, notebooks, personal expenses, and food are just some of the things that have an impact on your savings account. Many people, including me, struggled with managing money and...
Financial Awareness
College is not only about social growth but is also a time for developing a sense of financial awareness. Before this period, most students have not had the chance to properly assess how they use money; however, this changes once you are far from home and are expected...
Financial Aid Forms
Financial aid can be scary to navigate, especially as a first-year, first-generation college student. My first experience with financial aid was filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) as a senior in high school. Fortunately, there were...
Let’s talk about Money!
When I decided to come to an out of state college I knew that I would have to learn how to manage my money. I came to a private school in Pennsylvania, and private school are more expensive but I decided to come to Lycoming College because they gave me really good...
Leveraging Support: 2 of 7 Things I’ve Learned in College
There is something so isolating about struggling in college. Sure, no one is perfect, and the occasional slip ups are expected, but persistently struggling in college is often a lonely experience. Between the “maximum productivity” work culture that glorifies working...
Love is in the Air
As a junior at ISU, I have had lots of time to find out what places on campus are my favorite and what places are my not-so-favorite. In terms of food, I've fallen in love with La Bamba, a sushi/Mexican fusion restaurant that genuinely has some of the best sushi I...
Opportunities Await
While summer is still ways away, for many, including myself, now is the time to start prepping for it. Summer for a college student holds many possibilities for many different people. I identify three categories from among my peers. The first group of students treats...
Getting Back
Welcome everyone back from break! I hope everyone had a relaxing and fulfilling break and is charged up for the rest of the year! Personally, I always have a bit of difficulty getting back into the swing of things when I first start back up. The difference in workload...
Change is Required for Growth
The last semester of my undergrad career has officially begun (albeit while temporarily conducted through a computer screen). I guess a part of me is supposed to feel really ecstatic to have made it as far as I have. And I’m certain that below the ball of anxiousness sitting in the pit of my stomach like a rock…there is much cause for celebration and excitement.