Exercise

Note: This post was submitted to Student Caffé by Mike Jones. We would like to thank him for his submission and credit him as the author of this blog post. You can learn more about him on Twitter. Working out regularly is beneficial not only to your physical health, but also […]

Easy Ways to Stay Fit When You’re Busy with School

This entry was posted in Health and Wellness on February 2, 2018 by Student Caffe Staff

Eight Ways to Stay Fit during the Winter Months without Hitting the Gym — January: The month where you can never seem to find an open elliptical or open treadmill at the gym because everyone is trying to work off their holiday weight as part of a New Year’s resolution. It’s a great idea, but if you’re anything like me, a New Year’s resolution […]

Eight Ways to Stay Fit during the Winter Months without Hitting the Gym

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

15 Ways to Avoid Gaining the Freshman 15 — Incoming freshmen fear those 15 pounds that they will supposedly gain on campus, but the idea of the Freshman 15 is a proven myth. It isn’t a statistic; it’s made up for alliteration, so wipe the sweat from your brow, folks. Many students do gain weight when they head to […]

15 Ways to Avoid Gaining the Freshman 15

This entry was posted in Health and Wellness on October 19, 2016 by Katelyn Brush

Yoga for Detoxing from a Long Weekend — Class, work, sleep, eat, repeat. That’s an average student’s schedule from Monday to Friday, and it’s easy to feel trapped by its tedium. If you rebel against the monotony, you might watch late-night movies, dance until the sun rises, and eat 25-cent chicken wings. But that just makes you more […]

Yoga for Detoxing from the Weekend

This entry was posted in Health and Wellness on September 25, 2016 by Katelyn Brush

Yoga for Anxiety — “Take a deep breath. Relax.” You’ve heard it before in stressful times, but do you know the root of this phrase? Yoga. The ancient practice of yoga is made up of three main ingredients: breathing, meditation, and asana (physical postures). Each factor alone has been proven to help relieve anxiety, […]

Six Yoga Poses to Help with Anxiety and Panic Attacks

This entry was posted in Health and Wellness on July 26, 2016 by Katelyn Brush

How to Be Smart in Our National Parks this Summer — “Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children’s children.” - Theodore Roosevelt, 1906On August 25, 2016, the National Park Service (NPS) will celebrate its 100th anniversary. To commemorate America’s national parks […]

How to Be Smart in Our National Parks This Summer

This entry was posted in Recreation on July 15, 2016 by Megan Reynolds

Yoga for Beginners — Feeling a little tired? There’s yoga for that. In fact, there’s yoga for just about everything. Yoga is a mental and physical practice that allows individuals to heal their bodies, and it can be beneficial for anyone; a student with great strength can be challenged, and a student with a […]

Yoga: An Energizing Practice for Beginners

This entry was posted in Health and Wellness on June 26, 2016 by Katelyn Brush

Working can help keep your brain active in summer. — Many experiments have been conducted to examine the effects of the summer vacation gap on a student’s education. The results have shown that without any brain-stimulating activities, such as summer school, students can lose a significant amount of the knowledge they acquired during the school year. Summer classes are not […]

How to Keep Your Brain Active Over Summer Vacation

This entry was posted in Recreation on June 13, 2016 by Katelyn Brush

Why I Joined and Why I Quit: A College Softball Story — It seems weird to say it now, but I was a Division III athlete for a couple of trimesters during college. I was on the softball team. I wasn’t very good, but I had a good time with the girls for a while. I’ll start from the beginning. As a […]

Why I Joined and Why I Quit: A Softball Story

This entry was posted in Extracurricular on May 22, 2016 by Megan Clendenon

Ways to Stay Fit in College and Why You Should Get Fit to Finish the School Year — As summer quickly approaches, many of us jump on the treadmill to lose the extra weight from winter. There are even more valuable benefits to a regular work out regime than weight loss, though, especially as the end of the school year nears. Exercise is a mood-boosting, health-promoting, brain-gaining, all […]

The Truth: Why You Should Get Fit to Finish the School Year

This entry was posted in Health and Wellness on May 6, 2016 by Katelyn Brush