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June 30, 2010 | VReitano

The Truth about Diet Coke

Drinking diet soda to avoid drinking extra calories? You may just be inhibiting your weight loss efforts. Read on to see why.

June 20, 2010 | Alicia Ostarello

Tips to Working Out Safely with Music

Those little earbuds (or even those pesky large headphones!) can cause a lot of trouble for you while you get your Stairmaster on or while your feet are hitting the pavement around campus.

June 18, 2010 | Lauren Van Mullem

Romance Abroad: Dating in Different Cultures

Asking about dating on my travels to England, India and Japan revealed some fascinating differences in how guys and gals are getting together – or aren’t.

June 17, 2010 | Nathaniel

I Majored in Something I Hate

Cora is a young woman from Southern California who earned her degree at UCLA. She actually said she “hated” her major.

June 13, 2010 | Charissa Arsaoui

How One Woman’s Love for Travel Became Her Profession

Travel journalist Victoria Baker knows a good story when she sees one. The thirty-year-old Brit and reporter for the Guardian packed her bags and set off to South America where she won the hearts of locals by sleeping on their couches.

May 21, 2010 | Alicia Ostarello

Is College a Place to Learn or Pleasure Island?

To continue on Amelia’s graduation-tails as to why you’re never too old to attend college, 94-year old Hazel Soares donned a cap and gown at Mills College in Oakland this weekend to receive her BA in Art History. Soares’ story is all the rage right now, and it’s certainly an inspiring tale. However I can’t [...]

May 20, 2010 | ama83

Why Statistics Should Not Affect Your Career Choice

All over the internet, we see blogs and articles featuring the statistics of the best and worst paying jobs available. Although this kind of information is interesting to know, I cannot help but wonder whether these statistics are more detrimental than helpful for college students as they try to decide on a major. Worse yet, [...]

May 19, 2010 | VReitano

MySpace Makes a Comeback with New Privacy Settings

Could MySpace be making a comeback? According to Mashable, it could be thanks to new privacy settings that are meant to display the main differences between MySpace and Facebook–the ability to protect your information.
MySpace, to me, is a blast from the past–I had a MySpace in the days of dial up internet and “Saved By [...]

May 11, 2010 | VReitano

Tips for Rocking Your Summer Internship

It’s that time of year – internship time. Hopefully you’ve already nailed down your internship for this summer, but if you haven’t this article includes a few tips for doing that as well as great tips for rocking your internship. These tips should get you extended, or at the very least a great recommendation at [...]

May 11, 2010 | Natalie

Should We Pray at Graduation?

Separation of church and state – we’ve heard it before. Especially in public high schools, administrations usually try to keep any blatant display of religious affiliation as taboo.
Or was that just my school?
Apparently, because it turns out Greenwood High School in Indiana has been having student-led prayers at graduation for years. It used to be [...]

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