When summer break rolls around, many students leave campus and head back home or maybe to a whole new city for an internship or job. For many of us, that could mean paying a few more months on a lease than we can afford to — or, even worse, paying rent in two places at [ Read More ]
Roommates
Categories: College Finance, Life in College, Roommates
Moving out of our dorms or apartments at the end of the semester or after graduation is often the last thing on our minds. School is out, and we want out of there. While you might not care what state your apartment is left in, your landlord does. Whether your landlord is the university or the [ Read More ]
Categories: Everything, Life in College, Roommates
College is a great time for you to find a relationship. It’s also a great time for your best friend to do the same. But what happens when your best friend is the one who ends up in a serious relationship and is so stuck to the hip of his/her boyfriend/girlfriend, that you feel like [ Read More ]
Categories: College Relationships, Friends, Life in College, Love, People, Roommates
We’re halfway through the semester and closer to final exams, which means your tolerance for your roommates is only going to get smaller and smaller from here on out. Things that you may have been putting up with all year could really start to irritate you now, and your apartment could essentially become a ticking [ Read More ]
Categories: College Relationships, Friends, Life in College, Roommates, School
This blog isn’t about how to create social media accounts … you already know how to do that. This is about how you use the accounts you’ve created and how you are portraying yourself online. Facebook This is the most important account for you to stay on top of. Because Facebook privacy settings are constantly changing, [ Read More ]
Categories: 21+, College Relationships, Drinks, Everything, Hangovers, Internships, Life in College, Party Trouble, Partying, Roommates, School, Under 21, Work
Freshman year is, without a doubt, going to be one of the best years of your life. It’s bound to be filled with parties, sorority/fraternity functions and nights in the library with friends. Some of these nights you’ll remember forever, others may get lost in a drunken haze, but it’s the year you’ll spend the [ Read More ]
Categories: College Relationships, Drinks, Everything, Hangovers, Life in College, Partying, Roommates, School, Studying
Freshman year is always something that goes hand in hand with words like legendary or epic. But just because freshman year has so many great connotations with those of us who’ve been through it, we tend to blur out the bad and awkward parts. For me, freshman year was a blast, but would I want to go [ Read More ]
Categories: College Relationships, Everything, Family, Friends, Health, Life in College, Love, Partying, Roommates, School
When I was in college, it seemed like everybody AND their brother had a dog. Literally everyone. I was so jealous of my friends who were able to have dogs. I had a family dog who I missed desperately and was chomping at the bit to be able to adopt one of my own. Now [ Read More ]
Categories: College Relationships, Family, Health, Life in College, Roommates
No matter how much advice I try to give current students about their living situations, they mostly don’t listen. OK, I get it, I’m “old” because I’m not in college anymore, but I promise, I did learn quite a few things about college life while I was there. And the majority of it was about [ Read More ]
Categories: College Relationships, Dorm Stories, Friends, Life in College, Love, Partying, Roommates, School
In This Section: Roommates
Roommate issues, problems, hanging out, throwing a party together, going out together, how to manage living with someone else, how to coordinate your styles, how to coordinate payments, sharing a closet, sharing a refrigerator, sharing the remote, different tastes in music, and introducing your friends.
