Tag: writing
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Study Groups
It’s the first Friday of the semester/quarter, and you’ve just had a long week of very boring classes all repeating the same syllabus information for hours. You want to take a nap, maybe finish unpacking, and go home. But instead, you’re going to take a few small steps and set yourself up for success for…
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Essay Tips for Scholarships and Admissions
Scholarship essays, or admission essays, essays are an art and a skill. When done well, the acceptances roll in, but when done poorly or without understanding, it can be an exercise in futility. Here are some of the guides and necessary essentials for writing an essay that gets results. In one sentence, this is it:…
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Utilities
When you live at home or on campus during college, oftentimes you’ll never see a utility bill until you move into your first apartment. It can be quite a shock, suddenly having someone demand $50, $150, or even $600 a month for something that seemed so commonplace and necessary. It was a shock for me…
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Furnishing your Apartment
When you enter the workforce, and potentially move into your first apartment, you’ll be initially surrounded by all your college and hometown memorabilia and storage solutions – the rickety plastic shelf, the collapsible felt chair, and tons of cube boxes. You might be tempted to throw it all away, immediately, and start fresh, but I…
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Reflections for the upcoming year
So 2026, it’s a new year, and I’ve done a lot of reflection, work, and setting up of systems in 2025 and I’m excited to see what happens in 2026 as I look back on 2025. In 2024 I opened my first high yield savings account but in 2025 I really perfected it and found…
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Moving out
You’re done with your first year of college, congratulations! We’re going to follow the same order, as when you moved in. One thing to note, most dorms allow students to stay an additional 4 days to a week past the last day of finals, so that will be the last week when you do the…
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