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.

Brit Ali’s College Story: Technology and Design — Brit Ali didn’t stray far from her hometown of Williamson, New York to attend college at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)—only about 30 minutes. She chose to live on campus her first year, though, and enjoy the immersive college experience instead of commuting between school and home. In 2014, […]

My College Story: Technology and Design

This entry was posted in My College Story on December 28, 2018 by Student Caffe Staff

Eight Job Hunting Tips and Resources — Job hunting isn’t particularly fun, especially if you’re trying to break into a new field or find your first “real” job after college or graduate school. The competition is stiff, the openings seem to be few and far between, and sometimes hiring managers won’t even give you the courtesy of […]

Eight Job Hunting Tips and Resources

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

What Happens after You Receive Your Bachelor’s Degree — As you approach the completion of your bachelor’s degree, you may question what your next steps should be. It’s easy to feel lost without the prospect of heading back to classes on the horizon. Some of your classmates may be applying to or have already applied and been accepted to […]

What Happens after You Receive Your Bachelor’s Degree

This entry was posted in Career on December 19, 2018 by Hannah Holley

Majors and Careers with Jobs in Any City — As a college student, you may not think about where you’ll live after graduation until your senior year when it’s time to move. Your choice of major, though, can actually impact your options down the line, so thinking about not only what career will make you happy, but also where […]

Majors and Careers with Jobs in Any City

This entry was posted in Career on December 12, 2018 by Hannah Holley

Do Employers Look at More than Your Résumé and Transcripts? — 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 […]

Do Employers Look at More than Your Résumé and Transcripts?

This entry was posted in Career on December 7, 2018 by Student Caffe Staff

What Is Test Anxiety and How Do You Cope with It? — When you walk into a final exam or a standardized test, it’s perfectly normal to experience some feelings of nervousness. These feelings happen to even the most prepared and self-confident of students; one can never be 100% sure what’s going to be on a test, and that bit of uncertainty […]

What Is Test Anxiety and How Do You Cope with It?

This entry was posted in Study Skills on December 3, 2018 by Megan Clendenon

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

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

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

Everything You Need to Know about the LSAT — Similar to how the SAT and ACT are used by colleges as a measure of whether a student will be successful, the LSAT, or Law School Admission Test, is used by law schools to determine whether an applicant will be an asset to a university. Almost all prospective law students […]

Understanding the LSAT: Law School Admission Test

This entry was posted in Study Skills on October 24, 2018 by Anna Palmer

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