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.

Tips to Help You Successfully Pack for College — Note: This post was submitted to Student Caffé by Julie Williams. We would like to thank her for her submission and credit her as the author of this blog post.When you are preparing to go off to college, you have to decide what to take with you and what to […]

Tips to Help You Successfully Pack for College

This entry was posted in Housing on June 15, 2018 by Student Caffe Staff

Five Tips for Buying a Car on a Student Budget — Note: This post was submitted to Student Caffé by Sam Casteris. Sam Casteris is an avid traveler, a lifelong lover of education, and a strong proponent of financial literacy. She is a regular contributor to Transfer Ways and Fresh U, where she writes tips for students and student transfers. Follow […]

Five Tips for Buying a Car on a Student Budget

This entry was posted in Lifestyle on June 1, 2018 by Student Caffe Staff

The Best Ways to Find Books to Read for Fun — With classes over and textbooks returned, summer is a great time to read books for pleasure! Whether you’re sitting by the pool, stretched out in a hammock, or relaxing at the park, the only accessory you need is a great book to get lost in. But with so many books […]

The Best Ways to Find Books to Read for Fun

This entry was posted in Recreation on May 23, 2018 by Hannah Holley

How to Initiate and Have Difficult Conversations with Your Roommate — Note: This post was submitted to Student Caffé by Dan Chabert, an entrepreneur, husband, and ultramarathon distance runner from Copenhagen, Denmark. He spends most of his time co-managing home sites including That Sweet Gift, BornCute, and ContractorCulture, and health sites like Runnerclick and Nicer Shoes. He has also been featured on many running blogs worldwide. We […]

How to Initiate and Have Difficult Conversations with Your Roommate

This entry was posted in Housing on May 18, 2018 by Student Caffe Staff

Myths about Sexual Health — Sexual health is somewhat of a mystery to a lot of people. Whether this is because it’s not always taught (or taught consistently) in schools, because it’s uncomfortable to talk about with parents or other trusted adults, or because much of what teens learn about sex comes from the media, […]

Eight Myths about Sexually Transmitted Infections (and What’s Actually True)

This entry was posted in Health and Wellness on May 7, 2018 by Megan Clendenon

How to Be a Good Wedding Guest — Chances are, at some point in your life, you’ll be invited to a wedding. My first personal invitation came when I was a junior in college (the bride was 21) and since then, the invitations haven’t stopped coming. This year alone, I’ll be attending six weddings. That I have so […]

How to Be a Good Wedding Guest

This entry was posted in Recreation on April 23, 2018 by Megan Clendenon

How to Conserve Energy in Your Dorm Room — Earth Day is a day for us to focus on protecting and improving our planet. One way that we can help Mother Earth is to use less energy; this decreases the amount of pollution entering the environment and reduces greenhouse gas emissions. Pollutants (including greenhouse gases) harm the environment by […]

How to Conserve Energy in Your Dorm Room

This entry was posted in Recreation on April 18, 2018 by Hannah Holley

What to Know about Buying a Car — When you start thinking about buying a car, remember that delaying the purchase as long as possible is best. Insurance rates are cheaper for drivers in their 20s than for drivers in their teens, but having a car at all is a huge financial burden. Most people can’t afford to […]

What You Need to Know about Buying Your First Car

This entry was posted in Lifestyle on April 9, 2018 by Megan Clendenon

How Sick Is Too Sick for Class — You wake up with a pounding headache, your nose is running, and you start coughing into your coffee. You feel sick… should you go to work or class, or should you stay home?Not surprisingly, there is a lot of debate on this subject. About 25% of Americans go to work when they’re […]

How Sick Is Too Sick to Attend Work or Class?

This entry was posted in Health and Wellness on March 28, 2018 by Hannah Holley

Reading recommendations — Every so often, the staff of Student Caffé comes together to create a list of reading recommendations so that you don’t get stuck wondering what book to pick next. Yes, yes, you’re busy with school. You have assignments, papers, projects, and exams that take priority over reading for fun. It’s […]

Fun and Interesting Book Recommendations to Boost Your Mood

This entry was posted in Recreation on March 16, 2018 by Student Caffe Staff

The History of St. Patrick's Day — You may think of St. Patrick’s Day as a day to wear green, drink beer, and listen to jaunty Irish tunes. And for the most part, you’re right. St. Patrick’s Day is a huge celebration of Irish pride (so much so that people who don’t have a lick of Irish […]

Beyond Green Beer: The History of St. Patrick’s Day

This entry was posted in Recreation on March 12, 2018 by Megan Clendenon

Mental Health Boosts — It’s normal to feel down when the days are grey, the temperature hovers at or below freezing, and the forecast is bleak (six more weeks of winter, anyone?). It doesn’t help that sunset seems to happen at dinnertime, sunrise doesn’t seem to happen until lunchtime, and all of your daylight […]

Mental Health Boosts to Keep You on Track in the Winter

This entry was posted in Health and Wellness on February 26, 2018 by Megan Clendenon

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