Growth

People grow in all sorts of different ways every day, but we try to cover some of the main ones: growth through travel and study abroad, growth through participating in extracurricular activities on and off campus, growth through academics, and growth through work. Advice in this section is for anyone who wants it, parents included. Here, you will learn how to bolster your résumé, cite your sources, increase your focus, and so much more.

Graduation Advice for College Seniors — College graduation is a double-edged sword. It represents a feeling of immense accomplishment; you’ve been working toward this moment for the last four years. Your professors, family, and friends will watch you walk across a stage, shake hands with the college president, and come away from it all with a diploma.

Graduation Advice for College Seniors

This entry was posted in Growth on April 26, 2017 by Student Caffe Staff

Las siete mejores aplicaciones para aprender inglés — Hay muchas cosas que, como profesor de lengua inglesa y también como estudiante de otro idioma, recomiendo a mis alumnos al aprender inglés. Uno de mis consejos es probar nuevas metodologías de adquisición de idioma y buscar los modos que más les ayuden a canalizar sus estudios, ya sea asistiendo […]

Las siete mejores aplicaciones para aprender inglés

This entry was posted in Study Skills on April 20, 2017 by Mauro Schimf

What to Do When You're Feeling the Upcoming Graduation Blues — Change is good, but it can be tough to handle. The thought of completing your college graduation ceremony, packing up, and leaving the space that has been your home since the end of high school is a sad one. There may even be tears and tissues involved. Follow the advice […]

What to Do When You’re Feeling the Upcoming Graduation Blues

This entry was posted in Growth on April 14, 2017 by Megan Clendenon

A girl holding her finger to her lips and saying "shhh." — All jokes aside, members of college secret societies generally do keep mum about their activities, and some may keep mum about their membership status too. That’s why you won’t find much information if you go scouring the web about secret societies. As the name implies, they like to keep an […]

Everything You’re Allowed to Know about College Secret Societies

This entry was posted in Extracurricular on April 11, 2017 by Gwen Elise

Have an educational summer vacation by visiting national parks. — Education doesn’t always come from a classroom. In fact, a lot of education comes from outside the classroom. You can learn about interpersonal relationships by reading a great novel, about history by visiting a museum, and job skills by actually trying to do a particular job. While math and biology […]

10 Ways to Make Your Summer Vacation Educational

This entry was posted in Extracurricular on April 5, 2017 by Megan Clendenon

A person counts the money in their wallet, wondering about ways to make money at school. — With tuition costs on the rise, it’s no surprise that many college students call themselves broke. Sure, there are ways to hold down jobs in college—work-study is an option, and an off-campus job is another—but sometimes you’re looking to earn fast cash on the side. That’s when it’s time to […]

Earn Fast Cash in College with a Side Hustle

This entry was posted in Extracurricular on April 2, 2017 by Gwen Elise

A student is cheating at school by knowing the test answers ahead of time. — Cheating can take many forms, from copying a friend’s homework to peeking at your neighbor’s answers while you’re taking a quiz to stealing the answers to the final exam from your teacher’s desk. You may let someone else copy your homework when they’re in a hurry (in which case you’re […]

What Happens When You Cheat or Plagiarize: A Guide for High Schoolers

This entry was posted in Study Skills on March 30, 2017 by Megan Clendenon

Spring break safety tips — High school and college spring break trips provide a necessary respite from the stress of college admissions, midterms, standardized test prep, and homework. It’s important to let go, but not to forgo safety practices. Make sure the memories you make are ones that you look back on fondly and not […]

10 Spring Break Safety Tips

This entry was posted in Travel on March 12, 2017 by Megan Reynolds

Mejorar tu inglés — Durante mis siete años como profesor de inglés, he visto muchos alumnos en apuros porque han ganado una beca para estudiar en los Estados Unidos, teniendo limitaciones con el idioma. Es común. Seas un estudiante preparándote para el examen TOEFL o el examen IELTS, un padre tratando de entender los […]

Seis consejos para mejorar tu inglés lo más rápido posible

This entry was posted in Study Skills on March 9, 2017 by Mauro Schimf

An anti-procrastination post-it note saying "don't wait until tomorrow!" — A lot of people procrastinate from time to time, but 20% of people do it chronically. I am one of the latter. In college, I was the girl who waited until midnight the night before a paper was due to begin writing. I’d stay up drinking a combination of coffee […]

Procrastination in College: Why We Do It and How to Stop

This entry was posted in Study Skills on February 25, 2017 by Megan Reynolds

A girl shows her resume to a man and asks for last minute ways to improve a college resume. — It’s crunch time! The deadline to submit an application to your dream job, a cool summer internship, or your top-choice graduate program is nigh. If you’ve never written a résumé before, you’ll need to start from scratch—and hurry!—but let’s say that you know the basics and you have a draft […]

Seven Last-Minute Ways to Improve Your College Résumé

This entry was posted in Career on February 22, 2017 by Gwen Elise

Science in the news — It is no question that news agencies and scientific fact have come under fire since the beginning of the year. Terms like “alternative facts” and “fake news” are being thrown around, and some people have started questioning and discrediting well-respected scientific organizations, including those that do medical research, ensure that […]

How to Be a More Informed Reader of Scientific News

This entry was posted in Study Skills on February 19, 2017 by Megan Clendenon

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