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My eyes lost focus on my four page list of German vocabulary words as my brain bounced back and forth trying to make a decision. I later explained to my friends that I was sorry I was so tense, but I was experiencing anxiety attacks every ten minutes making it difficult to remember besezt meant [...]

With all the worry about getting a job after graduation, knowing that you can earn a degree and have a guaranteed career sounds like a pretty sweet deal for a lot of students out there. It appears that Lansing Community College in Michigan is guaranteeing their students will find jobs within a year of graduating, [...]

Although memorizing university websites sticks a plethora of post-it-noted facts into your brain, there’s only one sure way to know if you’ll love the college you’re at next fall: college visits. Now, I started making the rounds as a sophomore (anxious much? I know), but junior or senior year is a much more typical time [...]

Senior Service Projects: the final roadblock to graduation. Most high schools require seniors to complete a certain number of community service hours before they’re handed their pretty-ribbon wrapped diploma. When fourth quarter rolls around, though, and students find their projects are still in outline form…well, it’s time to get down to business.
Community projects don’t need [...]

The rise in college applications has inevitably led to a drop in acceptance letters – comparatively speaking. Admission departments show that schools like MIT and Brown’s acceptance are down between 9% and 10%, so far. In reality, this really should be no surprise to anyone who knew of the high record of college applications this [...]

“Do you want to be a big fish in a small pond, or a small fish with room to grow in a big pond?”
That gem of wisdom was one of my father’s, told to me when I was trying to decide whether to go to a large public university or a small private college. Another [...]

Still in my pj’s, at ten o’clock on a Monday signals the long awaited beginning of my last high school spring break. As a senior, it really is all down hill to graduation from here. But thinking back a year, I never thought I’d make it this far. Spring for a junior meant the ACT, [...]

It used to be that the 11×17 watermarked envelope from the college you applied to signaled a “Congratulations”–and a jumping all over the living room shriek–while a standard university envelope meant rejection. This decision means everything to potential college students, but now the envelope has morphed from its traditional state into…email?
Out of the six schools [...]

Whichever career you end up choosing after college does not necessarily mean that you need to start at the fanciest university to earn a lot of money. A recent study (currently being provided on Yahoo!’s headlines) shows that it isn’t the school that ensures a student will earn the most money in the future. Although Harvard, Stanford, and Yale made the list, they are not at the very top of the list. Take a close look at “College Grads: Which Ones Earn the Most?” and you’ll find that your future won’t be wealthy because of the school you attend, but because of the major you pick.

I am not trying to knock honor students or ignore all of their hard work, but I have yet to see how taking honor classes provides any real benefit to a student’s future.