Lifestyle

Navigating your college campus isn’t always simple, especially since there’s so much more to the college experience than academics. We’ve created this section to help you find answers to anything that comes up about student life, from learning the symptoms of mononucleosis to deciding whether you should get a pet. These posts cover common questions about student health and wellness, weekend culture and recreation, cheap ways to celebrate all the big holidays, love and interpersonal relationships, and housing.

When Enough Is Enough: Switching Roommates in College — On the first night of freshman year, I was exhausted but couldn’t sleep. I had driven some seven hours that day, making it to campus just in time to de-bunk beds in my new room and play two-truths-and-a-lie with the kids on my hall. My new roommate and I shuffled […]

When Enough Is Enough: Switching Roommates in College

This entry was posted in Housing on May 13, 2016 by Gwen Elise

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

How to Celebrate Cinco de Mayo at College — Cinco de Mayo literally translates to “five of May,” referring, of course, to May 5th. May 5th happens every year, but it wasn’t particularly important until 1862, when the Mexican army defeated the French at the Battle of Puebla. This happened during the Franco-Mexican War. Napoleon III, emperor of France, […]

Celebrating Cinco de Mayo at College: Ideas for Students

This entry was posted in Recreation on May 2, 2016 by Megan Clendenon

What to Do After You're Mugged — Last year, on the first nice day of spring, I was leaving work just before 5 p.m. The sun felt brighter than it had in months, and the redbuds were flowering above me. As I walked to my car, I noticed three guys about my age sauntering down the street […]

What to Do After You’re Mugged

This entry was posted in Health and Wellness on May 2, 2016 by Gwen Elise

Health Insurance for Students: Your Options Simplified — Growing up, you may not have had to worry too much about health insurance. When it comes time for you to go out on your own, however, making sure that you have health insurance is crucial. Many colleges actually require proof of insurance before they let you enroll. Having health […]

Health Insurance for Students: Your Options, Simplified

This entry was posted in Health and Wellness on May 1, 2016 by Megan Clendenon

How to Help a Friend Who Is an Addict — Today is the funeral for an old friend of mine who tragically lost a long battle with drug addiction. Today, I’m lost, looking back at what I had done and what I could have done. When I think of him, I am especially saddened by how young he was when […]

How to Help a Friend with a Drug or Alcohol Dependency

This entry was posted in Health and Wellness on April 28, 2016 by Katelyn Brush

How to Celebrate Earth Day — Earth Day has been celebrated every April 22nd since 1970. The holiday was born eight years after Rachel Carson released Silent Spring, a book about the detrimental effect that humans have on the natural environment. Particularly, the book examined the negative influence that pesticide use had on birds, bugs, and […]

Celebrating Earth Day and Saving the Environment

This entry was posted in Recreation on April 21, 2016 by Megan Clendenon

Cheap Activities for College Students — I'm cheap. Always have been. Among my most extravagant purchases in college were textbooks and two-ply toilet paper. Even then, I sought out the free stuff in campus bathrooms as much as possible. It was easy to respect my broke-college-student budget, especially when it came to entertainment. Tuition was so […]

15 Spring Activities for a Broke College Student Budget

This entry was posted in Recreation on April 12, 2016 by Gwen Elise

How to Find an Apartment on Craigslist — When I was accepted to the University of Texas at Austin in 2013, I was happy, mostly because I’d received blunt rejection letters from all of the other grad schools to which I’d applied. Soon after I accepted my admissions offer, it occurred to me that I would need to […]

Successfully Apartment Hunting Using Craigslist: It’s Possible

This entry was posted in Housing on April 7, 2016 by Megan Clendenon

What You Need to Have If You're Walking Alone at Night — Stay in the light, have your phone, walk fast, check who’s behind you... Some people naturally take these precautions to feel safer when walking alone at night. The unavoidable reality is that day-to-day activities are more dangerous for some people: women, genderqueer and non-binary individuals, people of color. I speak […]

What You Need to Have If You’re Walking Alone at Night

This entry was posted in Health and Wellness on April 5, 2016 by Katelyn Brush

Best April Fools Pranks: Videos that Made It into the Hall of Fame — Happy April Fools’ Day! If you have some tricks up your sleeve, we’re wishing you all the best. Otherwise, heed our warning: Take caution today. You just might be the target of a prank. Trust no one. It’s common knowledge that pranks are always funnier if you aren’t on the […]

April Fools’ Day Videos: Pranks That Made It into the Hall of Fame

This entry was posted in Recreation on April 1, 2016 by Katelyn Brush

A student plays an April Fool's Day prank on his girlfriend in the library. — Tomorrow is April Fools’ Day, which means no one can be trusted, not even the shy, nice guy who lives down the hall. Prepare some pranks, or you might be the victim of something epic. If you choose the former, we’ll help you get your shenanigan juices flowing. These (mostly) […]

15 Easy April Fools’ Day Pranks to Pull on Campus

This entry was posted in Recreation on March 31, 2016 by Student Caffe Staff

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