Yearly Archives: 2017

When and How You Should Start Saving for Retirement — I’m going to preface this article by saying that I am not an expert in retirement plans. I am self-taught, with a lot of help from both of my parents, some books, and the internet. Before you open any account, I highly recommend speaking to an expert and exploring all […]

When and How You Should Start Saving for Retirement

This entry was posted in Money and Financial Aid on December 28, 2017 by Megan Clendenon

Slow and Steady Ways to Build Up Your Savings Account — Money is the source of all woes, isn’t that what they say? Between tuition payments, student loans, and textbooks, it’s no wonder that’s the case for college students. The idea of putting money into a savings account while you have so many other things to pay for is almost laughable, […]

Slow and Steady Ways to Build Up Your Savings Account

This entry was posted in Money and Financial Aid on December 22, 2017 by Megan Clendenon

My College Story: Learning to Live with PMDD — Brett Buchert grew up in Saint Petersburg, Florida and attended the University of Florida, following a long line of family members. She graduated earlier this year with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and is currently working to develop an app: Me v PMDD. Q. You went to University of Florida. How […]

My College Story: Learning to Live with PMDD

This entry was posted in My College Story on December 19, 2017 by Student Caffe Staff

How to Spend Winter Break in High School — Winter break is that beautiful period between semesters when your obligations are few and you have the ability to do whatever you want, for as long or as short as you want, every day. You’ve finished the previous semester’s finals and chances are, you weren’t assigned much schoolwork to complete […]

Using Your Winter Break Wisely in High School

This entry was posted in Finishing High School on December 16, 2017 by Megan Clendenon

Why Colleges Want You to Take a Gap Year — Note: This post was submitted to Student Caffé by Emmy Defigueiredo. We would like to thank her for her submission and credit her as the author of this blog post. College-bound students considering a gap year are wise to do so. Prestigious universities across the nation believe that students who take a […]

Why Colleges Want You to Take a Gap Year

This entry was posted in Growth on December 13, 2017 by Student Caffe Staff

How to Prevent Illness and Cope with Being Sick at College — No one enjoys being sick, but when you’re a college student, it’s going to happen sooner or later. Living in close quarters and sharing communal bathrooms, not to mention spending all your time in the same four(ish) buildings on campus, makes it easy for bacteria and viruses to travel from […]

How to Prevent Illness and Cope with Being Sick at College

This entry was posted in Health and Wellness on December 10, 2017 by Megan Clendenon

Advice for Incoming College Students — When I went away for college, I thought I was prepared to be on my own. Needless to say, I wasn’t. I wasn’t ready to be fully responsible for myself (including cooking and doing laundry); I wasn’t ready to handle money alone; I wasn’t ready to have the freedom to choose whether […]

Things I Wish I Knew before I Left for College

This entry was posted in Finishing High School on December 7, 2017 by Shannon Whitney

Nine Simple Study Tips That Will Help You Prepare for Finals — The approach of finals week sends feelings of dread into the pits of many students’ stomachs, no matter how old they are. The good desks in the library are suddenly perpetually full, the campus café comes close to running out of coffee, and tired students shut themselves off from their […]

Nine Simple Study Tips That Will Help You Prepare for Finals

This entry was posted in Study Skills on December 4, 2017 by Megan Clendenon

Giving Quality Holiday Gifts on a Budget — It’s officially the holiday season! Whether you celebrate Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or Christmas, the month of December is sure to be eventful. With all the hype and excitement, there also comes the pressure of deciding what to give to the important people in your life. As a student, finding the funds […]

Giving Quality Holiday Gifts on a Budget

This entry was posted in Recreation on December 1, 2017 by Shannon Whitney

Why You Should Take "RateMyProfessors" with a Grain of Salt — When I was in college, I didn’t look my professors up on the internet before enrolling for their class. Instead, I asked around. Fellow geology majors were quick to tell me who was good and who was tough. Friends who’d taken psychology classes or computer science classes told me about […]

Why You Should Take RateMyProfessors.com with a Grain of Salt

This entry was posted in Study Skills on November 28, 2017 by Megan Clendenon

How to Recognize Cyberbullying — Cyberbullying is a new take on an old concept. Before getting into the cyber aspect of it, though, it’s first important to understand what the term bullying actually means. As a teacher, I heard many students (and parents) accuse others of bullying. Sometimes, they were right. Many other times, it was students just being […]

How to Recognize Cyberbullying

This entry was posted in Health and Wellness on November 25, 2017 by Shannon Whitney

Surviving Black Friday and Cyber Monday — Thanksgiving has become an incredibly commercial season. Between Black Friday deals, which start sooner and sooner each year, and Cyber Monday, which is the stay-at-home shopper’s favorite, people spend tons of money. In 2015, more than 151 million people shopped over Thanksgiving weekend, and that’s excluding the Cyber Monday shoppers. The same year, Black […]

Surviving Black Friday and Cyber Monday

This entry was posted in Recreation on November 22, 2017 by Megan Clendenon