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.

How to Choose a Major — If you’re in college and faced with the task of choosing the right major, you’re no stranger to anxiety, second-guessing yourself, and stressing about your future. Your feelings are normal, and many of your fellow sophomores and juniors are struggling with the same uncertainties. Fortunately, while choosing the right major […]

How to Go about Choosing the Right Major

This entry was posted in Career on February 3, 2017 by Gwen Elise

Two students work together to find appropriate sources for an academic paper in the campus writing center. — A major part of the college experience, and the high school experience as well, is learning how to write well and submitting written assignments. Assignments can range from writing personal narratives, for which no research is required, to completing a thesis on a certain topic, which may require a massive […]

Finding and Citing Appropriate Sources for Academic Work

This entry was posted in Study Skills on February 1, 2017 by Megan Clendenon

Nine Travel Apps to Simplify Your Trip — If you’re getting ready to depart on a study abroad program, or you have the time and money to take international vacations for fun, there are some essential travel apps that you should download before you head out. While you don’t want to use up all of your phone’s storage […]

Nine Travel Apps to Simplify Your Study Abroad Trip

This entry was posted in Travel on January 29, 2017 by Megan Clendenon

Eight Tips for Making Your English Major Worthwhile — Before I started college, I’d always heard that English was a soft subject, that it would never help me get a job, and that I’d go into a mountain of debt just so I could spend a few years reading. So, naturally, I wanted to prove the haters wrong. I […]

Eight Tips for Making Your English Major Worthwhile

This entry was posted in Study Skills on January 17, 2017 by Gwen Elise

Five Reasons Why You Should Consider Trade School — Vocational education is practical; it prepares you for a specific skills-based career. Fortunately, now is a great time to join the workforce. Trades will always be necessary to society, the job market is booming, and vocational education is more respected every day. Not to mention that the money is good […]

Five Reasons Why You Should Consider Trade School

This entry was posted in Career on January 8, 2017 by Megan Clendenon

Why Networking with Classmates Is as Important as Networking with Professionals — Whenever I log on to LinkedIn, I am invited to scroll a never-ending list of people I may know. There they are—my high school and college classmates—and most of them, including the ones who used to fall asleep in study hall or skip class to watch movies, have multiple degrees […]

Why Networking with Classmates Is as Important as Networking with Professionals

This entry was posted in Career on December 19, 2016 by Gwen Elise

My College Story: Attending a Women's College — Alli Iuliano attended Smith College, a liberal arts college for women in Northampton, Massachusetts. College life at Smith is steeped in tradition. There is everything from house tea parties to an annual Julia Child-inspired campus holiday to bell ringing for special occasions. Alli participated in as many activities as she […]

My College Story: Attending a Women’s College

This entry was posted in My College Story on December 19, 2016 by Student Caffe Staff

Michelle Tolan's College Story: The Importance of Study Abroad — Michelle Tolan was born in Wasilla, Alaska. In her words: “Yes, that one, and no, I couldn’t see Russia from my house.” As a first-generation college student, she attended Drake University in Iowa, where she majored in broadcast journalism, minored in political science, and concentrated in Spanish. During undergrad, she […]

My College Story: The Importance of Studying Abroad

This entry was posted in My College Story on December 4, 2016 by Student Caffe Staff

Five Tips for Bettering Your Focus after a Vacation — I get it. I really do. Getting back on task and into the swing of things after taking time off is brutal. Heck, my brain is trying to come out of vacation mode as we speak. Just last week, I was in Florida (why, yes, I did live out a […]

Five Tips for Bettering Your Focus after a Vacation

This entry was posted in Study Skills on November 28, 2016 by Gwen Elise

How to Prepare for Finals Week — Finals week is not fun. In fact, I can’t think of the last time that anyone announced to me that they were excited to take an exam, with the exception of being excited to get it over with. Alas, it’s one of the things that you just have to deal […]

Keep Calm: Nine Tips to Help You Prepare for Finals Week

This entry was posted in Study Skills on November 27, 2016 by Megan Clendenon

Patricia Shea tells her college story about traveling on a budget and how to save money while traveling. — Patricia Shea majored in neuroscience at the University of Vermont and studied abroad in Spain during her senior year. Like many students, after graduating, she had trouble finding a job in her field but soon realized there were things on her bucket list that needed crossing off before she could […]

My College Story: Budget Traveling and Programs Abroad

This entry was posted in My College Story on November 26, 2016 by Student Caffe Staff

Nine Study Apps to Help Any Student in Any Class — For those of you who dread all-nighters but keep pulling them anyway (AKA almost all of you), why put off until tomorrow what you could do today? Studying for a few minutes every day can mean less time cooped up in the library at the end of the semester or […]

Nine Apps to Help Any Student Study for Any Class

This entry was posted in Study Skills on November 25, 2016 by Katelyn Brush

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