Yearly Archives: 2017

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

What Lessons Can Harry Potter Teach Us? — I’ve been reading the Harry Potter series since I was in elementary school. I went to book release parties at the local bookstore each time a sequel was released. I threw my younger brother a Harry Potter-themed birthday party. My best friend and I made a home video of Harry Potter and the […]

What Lessons Can The “Harry Potter” Series Teach Us?

This entry was posted in Growth on October 29, 2017 by Megan Clendenon

Organization and Time Management — With this post, we are continuing our series on executive functioning (EF) skills. This article focuses on the EF skills of organization and time management. What do “organization” and “time management” mean? When many people think of someone with executive functioning skills, they picture someone who is well organized and […]

Executive Functioning Skills: Organization and Time Management

This entry was posted in Study Skills on October 26, 2017 by Shannon Whitney

Cognitive Flexibility — We are continuing our series on executive functioning (EF) skills. This article focuses on the EF skill of cognitive flexibility. What does “cognitive flexibility” mean? Have you ever gotten stuck? Not literally, but stuck in the sense that you were moving right along when something unexpected happened that stopped you […]

Executive Functioning Skills: Cognitive Flexibility

This entry was posted in Study Skills on October 23, 2017 by Shannon Whitney

The Relationship between Credit Card Debt and Credit Card Literacy — Did you know that of more than 1,200 college students with credit cards, over 44% of them were never taught how to budget, how to actually use a credit card, or many of the other intricate details of building and having a line of credit? Earlier this year, in May, U.S. News and […]

The Relationship between Credit Card Debt and Credit Card Literacy

This entry was posted in Money and Financial Aid on October 20, 2017 by Megan Clendenon

Planning, Prioritizing, and Task Initiation — In our last article in the series, we explained what executive functioning (EF) skills are. This article focuses on the EF skills of planning, prioritizing, and task initiation. What do “planning, prioritizing, and task initiation” mean? Planning refers to the ability to create a roadmap to reach a goal or achieve a […]

Executive Functioning Skills: Planning, Prioritizing, and Task Initiation

This entry was posted in Study Skills on October 17, 2017 by Shannon Whitney