Monthly Archives: November 2017

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

Executive Functioning Skills: Emotional Control — Today, we are completing our series on executive functioning (EF) skills. This final article focuses on the EF skill of emotional control. What does “emotional control” mean? Emotional control is the ability to manage and control your emotions in order to achieve a goal or complete a task. It’s the ability […]

Executive Functioning Skills: Emotional Control

This entry was posted in Growth on November 19, 2017 by Shannon Whitney

Easy Ways to Contribute to Thanksgiving or Friendsgiving — Are you looking forward Thanksgiving break? It gives you the perfect excuse to relax all day while watching the Macy’s Day Parade and football, eating some delicious foods, and spending time with the important people in your life. When I was in college, I was lucky enough to have extended […]

Easy Ways to Contribute to Thanksgiving or Friendsgiving

This entry was posted in Recreation on November 16, 2017 by Shannon Whitney

How to Deal with Noisy Neighbors in College — We’ve told you how to be a decent roommate, but we haven’t given you much advice about what to do if your neighbors, be they next door, across the hall, above you, or below you, are the problem. If you live in the college dorms, the most common complaint you’ll hear […]

How to Deal with Noisy Neighbors in College

This entry was posted in Housing on November 13, 2017 by Megan Clendenon

Veterans Day — What is Veterans Day? Veterans Day falls on November 11 each year. It is a day to thank all service members, past and present, who served their country honorably in times of war and peace. Where did Veterans Day come from? Veterans Day was originally called Armistice Day, after the Allied nations […]

Celebrating Veterans Day

This entry was posted in Recreation on November 10, 2017 by Megan Clendenon

Executive Functioning Skills: Attention and Working Memory — We are continuing our series on executive functioning (EF) skills. This article focuses on the EF skills of attention and working memory. What do “attention” and “working memory” mean? Attention is, in vaguest terms, the act or state of applying your mind to something. It allows you to select and focus […]

Executive Functioning Skills: Attention and Working Memory

This entry was posted in Study Skills on November 7, 2017 by Shannon Whitney

Note: This post was submitted to Student Caffé by Jackie Cortez. We would like to thank her for her submission and credit her as the author of this blog post. Alcohol and drug addictions impact millions of families around the world and many struggle with knowing when and how to […]

Finding Help for Alcohol and Drug Addiction: Where to Start and When to Reach Out

This entry was posted in Health and Wellness on November 4, 2017 by Student Caffe Staff

Executive Functioning Skills: Focus and Self-Control — We are continuing our series on executive functioning (EF) skills. This article focuses on the EF skills of focus and self-control. What do “focus” and “self-control” mean? Focus is the ability to concentrate on one thing and ignore everything else (to an extent). Focus helps you stay on task or on […]

Executive Functioning Skills: Focus and Self-Control

This entry was posted in Study Skills on November 1, 2017 by Shannon Whitney