Monthly Archives: August 2018

My Classroom Story: Elizabeth Wallace — Q. What grades and subjects did you teach?I taught mostly high school, but have experience teaching from seventh grade through community college. I taught AP [Advanced Placement] German 1, AP and IB [International Baccalaureate] French, English grades 7–12, and business administration at the college level in the public sector [both] […]

My Classroom Story: Elizabeth Wallace

This entry was posted in My Classroom Story on August 31, 2018 by Student Caffe Staff

10 Well-Known Athletes Who Earned College Degrees — Most athletes play on a college team before going pro, but they don’t all finish their degrees. With the biggest names making tens of millions of dollars per year at the height of their careers, a college degree may not seem necessary. But what about after their playing career has […]

10 Well-Known Athletes Who Earned College Degrees

This entry was posted in Recreation on August 29, 2018 by Hannah Holley

How to Be a Better Listener — The experience is probably depressingly common: You’re scrolling through Instagram or watching a show on Netflix when your roommate asks you a question. If you’re considerate, you’ll look up from your phone or pause your show before answering. Many people, though, keep scrolling or watching and multitask while having conversations—and […]

How to Be a Better Listener

This entry was posted in Growth on August 27, 2018 by Megan Clendenon

Six Tips to Help You Save Money in College — Note: This post was submitted to Student Caffé by Lexi Carr. We would like to thank her for her submission and credit her as the author of this blog post. It's no secret—college is expensive. Between tuition, books, clothes, and food, not to mention the other worthwhile expenditures college kids find, […]

Six Tips to Help You Save Money in College

This entry was posted in Money and Financial Aid on August 24, 2018 by Student Caffe Staff

How to Stand Out in College — In college, especially at a big school with lots of students, it can be easy to get lost in the mix. Large, introductory classes may be taught mainly by graduate students instead of professors, meaning that you won’t get the one-on-one contact with a professor that comes with upper-level classes […]

How (and Why) to Make Yourself Stand Out in College

This entry was posted in Growth on August 22, 2018 by Hannah Holley

Why You Should Learn Public Speaking — When I was a senior in high school, I took a public speaking class. In it, we were all required to memorize a song by The Beatles and deliver it as a speech. Most of the class chose “Come Together,” which was arguably quite hard to deliver because the lyrics, […]

Why You Should Learn to Be Good (Decent) at Public Speaking

This entry was posted in Study Skills on August 20, 2018 by Megan Clendenon

Mara Johnson's College Story — Mara Johnson was born in West Fargo, North Dakota, and didn’t travel far from home to attend college. In 2013, she earned a BS in business administration with a minor in fraud investigation from North Dakota State University, also located in Fargo. After gaining some experience with the Federal Reserve […]

My College Story: Ending Up Exactly Where I Need to Be

This entry was posted in My College Story on August 17, 2018 by Student Caffe Staff

10 Simple Ways to Make Friends in College — College can be a major adjustment. Not only have you left the familiarity of high school, but you are in a new place, studying at a higher level, and have more independence than ever. You’ll likely be living on your own for the first time. Although you may keep in […]

10 Simple Ways to Make Friends in College

This entry was posted in Love and Relationships on August 15, 2018 by Hannah Holley

Understanding 529 Savings Plans — Note: We usually write to students and for students, but sometimes there’s a topic that is important enough to involve parents, and this blog post is going to cover one of those topics. That’s not to say that this topic isn’t of interest to students, because it is something that […]

Understanding 529 Savings Plans

This entry was posted in Money and Financial Aid on August 13, 2018 by Megan Clendenon

My Classroom Story: Lillian Miller — Q. What grade and subjects do you teach?I teach third grade in Charleston, South Carolina. On paper I only teach social studies, science, English/language arts and math. In reality, I am also a second mom, nurse, guidance counselor, disciplinarian, and on some days, the person my children see more than […]

My Classroom Story: Lillian Miller

This entry was posted in My Classroom Story on August 10, 2018 by Student Caffe Staff

Eight Business Leaders Who Went to College — When you hear about Mark Zuckerberg dropping out of Harvard before the booming success of Facebook and about the similar successful dropout stories of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, it might be a tempting thought to follow in their footsteps. Although dropping out worked out for those moguls, it’s not […]

Eight Business Leaders Who Went to College

This entry was posted in Recreation on August 8, 2018 by Hannah Holley

Seven Electives Everyone Should Take in College — Colleges have different policies for when students are allowed to declare their majors, but often it’s not until sophomore year. This gives you plenty of time to take electives, get prerequisite classes out of the way, and explore topics you wouldn’t otherwise consider before you get bogged down in the […]

Seven Electives Everyone Should Take in College

This entry was posted in Study Skills on August 6, 2018 by Megan Clendenon