Monthly Archives: November 2018

Nicki Field was born in Fairfax, Virginia, and only traveled about four hours away to attend college at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, or Virginia Tech. In 2013, she graduated with a BS in psychology. She has been working toward her master’s degree (also in psychology) since 2015, and supplements […]

My College Story: Figuring It out Along the Way

This entry was posted in My College Story on November 30, 2018 by Student Caffe Staff

Five Ways to Make Friends as an Adult — When you’re a child, it’s easy to make friends. There’s the proximity thing—the people you go to preschool and elementary school with are going to become your friends—but there’s the added bonus that your parents do most of the work for you, arranging playdates and bringing you wherever they’ve decided […]

Five Ways to Make Friends as an Adult

This entry was posted in Love and Relationships on November 28, 2018 by Megan Clendenon

Why (and How) to Start Networking in College — College, with its wealth of people and information, is a great time to begin building a network of contacts. These contacts can help you later on when you need references for graduate school or a job, are looking for an internship in your field, are traveling to a new city, […]

Why (and How) to Start Networking in College

This entry was posted in Career on November 26, 2018 by Hannah Holley

Seven Mistakes You Shouldn't Make with Student Loans — If you’re anything like millions of other college students and former college students, you might have student loans, or you might be considering them as a way to help finance your education. Managing your loans can be tricky though, especially if you don’t have a head for finances or compounding […]

Seven Mistakes You Shouldn’t Make with Student Loans

This entry was posted in Money and Financial Aid on November 19, 2018 by Megan Clendenon

Four Ways to Cure Medical Student Loan Debt — Note: This post was submitted to Student Caffé by Elyssa Kirkham. Elyssa covers student loans, personal loans, debt, and credit for Student Loan Hero. Her work has been featured in TIME, CBS News, MSN Money, Business Insider, Daily Finance and more. We would like to thank her for her submission and […]

Four Ways to Cure Medical Student Loan Debt

This entry was posted in Money and Financial Aid on November 16, 2018 by Student Caffe Staff

Why Everyone Should Try a Free Online Class at Least Once — Online classes have increased steadily in popularity over the last decade. Although some students love the convenience of the online classroom format, others struggle without the structure of an actual classroom. It can be difficult to justify spending the tuition for an online course if you’re not sure that it will […]

Why Everyone Should Try a Free Online Class at Least Once

This entry was posted in Study Skills on November 14, 2018 by Hannah Holley

Why It’s Not Important to Be the Best at Everything — A few months ago, after watching an episode (or six) of The Great British Baking Show, I got it in my head that I wanted to make the perfect Queen of Puddings. A Queen of Puddings is a complicated dessert that is made up of a baked custard, homemade raspberry […]

Why It’s Not Important to Be the Best at Everything

This entry was posted in Growth on November 12, 2018 by Megan Clendenon

Educando valores: Los beneficios de la amabilidad — Muchos valores de la vida que nos han enseñado en el jardín de infantes y escuela primaria pueden irse desgastando si no se fomentan en los años subsiguientes de la educación secundaria e incluso y sobre todo importante, en casa. De hecho, muchos de estos valores liderados por la amabilidad […]

Educando valores: Los beneficios de la amabilidad

This entry was posted in Growth on November 9, 2018 by Mauro Schimf

My Experience as an Adult Student in an Online Degree Program — Although I headed to college to earn my bachelor’s degree immediately after high school, as many do, I also returned to college later, as an adult, to work toward a master’s degree. I didn’t follow the traditional bachelor’s to master’s path, though.While an undergraduate, I’d started working as a therapist […]

My Experience as an Adult Student in an Online Degree Program

This entry was posted in Admissions on November 7, 2018 by Hannah Holley

The Lowdown on Test-Optional Colleges — If you follow education in the news, you may remember reading an article (or at least seeing an article title) about colleges implementing test-optional admissions policies or colleges dropping their SAT or ACT writing requirements. These articles are becoming more and more common as colleges across the United States changes […]

The Lowdown on Test-Optional Colleges

This entry was posted in Admissions on November 5, 2018 by Megan Clendenon

Five Ways Parents Can Ensure Their Child Is Ready for College — Note: This post was submitted to Student Caffé by Ray FitzGerald. Ray holds bachelor’s degrees in both journalism and education from the University of Florida and St. Leo University. He is a long-time teacher of the gifted in an elementary classroom setting and works with parents, educators and children at www.RaiseALegend.com to […]

Five Ways Parents Can Ensure Their Child Is Ready for College

This entry was posted in Preparation on November 2, 2018 by Student Caffe Staff