Making the best of college
Making the best of college: majors, study abroad, internships, jobs, roommates, study tips, thesis writing, and more. For high school graduates and university students.
Your major does not doom you to a lifetime in one career track. I think that’s a good thing. I see employment statistics for comparative literature majors and I think “I don’t fit the concept.”
Read MoreA fast draft means you have a starting place. You get the main points down on paper. And even for longer projects, this process of writing a fast draft will help push the whole process along.
Read MoreIt's springtime, and I've got picnics and summer foods on my mind. So today's recipe is perfect: a spicy and fresh revisiting of a traditional potato salad dish. Perfect for potlucks, graduation parties, and sunny afternoon BBQs. And on top of all of that, it's brought to you by my fabulous friend, Leah, who is also responsible for other favorite comfort food recipes on this site: "Garbage Muffins" for the culinary adventurers/folks trying to clear out their cupboards and "Chocolate Lava Cakes" for all the chocolate enthusiasts out there.
Read MoreThe transition from high school to college is certainly different now than it was 20-30 years ago and thus represents an evolutionary process. While the high school experience has probably not changed much in the last 100 years, the college experience is now different in new and fundamental ways, and most incoming freshmen are unprepared to deal with this new way of life and new mode of educational performance. By far the biggest of the transitions is the realization that now you, the college freshmen, are suddenly personally responsible for your own successes and failures.
Read MoreToday's college comfort food recipe comes from Aunt Mish, who has brought some of the best Sunday Dinner recipes to this blog, including Beef Stroganoff with Buttered Noodles and a great potluck option: Kahlua and Pecan Brie. She promises that this recipe really is as simple as it looks, and can be done with a bare minimum of mess and appliances.
Good luck!
Read MoreThe idea here is that there might be reason to hurry through college and then into a conventional job. But maybe there isn’t any hurry. Maybe, if balanced by some common sense and overarching goal awareness, it would be better and more beneficial to consider some alternatives.
Read MoreBy visiting college classes you can get a feel for what “normal” might look like in college, and then start getting a sense of how things are in specific institutions.
Read MoreAunt Mish, our loyal source of my favorite Sunday Dinners, is currently living through a home rennovation project and is re-doing her kitchen. Luckily for us, this means she's getting back to a "simple cooking" phase, and sent this recipe along with the insight "If I learned anything from these 3 months of living without a “real” kitchen, it is that the recipes for students or people living in a small apartment are different than the ones I cook for myself – I am now proficient at cooking things that require only a single pan (or a skillet and another one for baking) and don’t have too many ingredients."
Read MoreThis decision really could be the most important one you have ever made. That being said, I am also of the opinion that most people can thrive at a whole range of colleges. I think you can happily settle into many different environments, pick from a variety of majors, and develop an active and satisfying undergraduate college experience.
Read MoreIf you’re dorming or living off-campus away from your parents, there will be plenty to consider before you even step foot in the classroom. Where will you live? Will you need roommates? And finally, what will you bring?
Read MoreToday's comfort food is as "comfort" as it gets. This recipe comes from my Aunt Mish's set of recipes that launched my college career, along with the other standbys of meatloaf, chicken with zucchini, and beef stroganoff with buttered noodles (among others).
This is one of those really simple meals that almost anyone would enjoy, and which can be endlessly adapted according to taste. Enjoy!
Read MoreExperience shows what you are capable of, it shows your interests, and gives the employer a sense of your personality. But most importantly, experience can be the most useful when it comes to interviews...
Read MoreThe key to a quality lecture seems to be some magical blend of the teacher’s passion and expertise with the relevance and level of engagement of the material at hand. You should walk away from a lecture with a sense that you have gained something that you couldn’t get from the assigned reading.
Read MoreThings have come full circle for this week's college comfort food: all the way back to the booklet of recipes my Aunt Mish gave me when I first went off to college. After all, is there anything more comforting than an old-fashioned meatloaf?
Read MoreI’ve been traveling the world for 27 years....with no permanent home and hardly any possessions. I’ve lived in dirt huts in the jungle of New Guinea and in a royal palace on the island of Bali.
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