I lived with a total of four different girls throughout my college career and was blessed to have an awesome living situation every time. However, I know that not everyone is as lucky as me and have to face tough roommate situations. My final college roommate, Bonnie, has had some, well, hard-living situations and so I asked if she’d be willing to write about her hard roommates and share any advice she has learned with you. So this post is… Read more »
The summer before I started college, I remember being super concerned about the prices of textbooks. One of my friends told me about Slugbooks and I started experimenting with that, but I was still leery of shipping prices. Then I discovered Amazon Prime Student. I had ordered things from Amazon before but had never tried Amazon Prime. I knew that it had free 2-day shipping and that sounded kinda nice, but I didn’t know if there would be any other… Read more »
The summer before I started college, I remember being super nervous about living in a dorm. I wondered what it would be like and how I would survive. I wanted to know what I needed to bring. And so I perused Pinterest and read blog after blog trying to understand what this mysterious concept of “dorm life” would really be like. I ended up living in a dorm for one and a half years out of my college career. I… Read more »
I remember the first time I looked at my university’s online bookstore. When I saw the price tags, my head spun. How on earth could textbooks cost so much? I wondered if there was any way possible that I could save money on textbooks. I researched a lot and asked friends for recommendations, and it wasn’t long before I discovered a few ways to save money on textbooks. Hallelujah! I started college in the fall of 2014 and graduated in December… Read more »
Shocked at how expensive college textbooks can be? Let me introduce you to Slugbooks. I remember being overwhelmed when I pulled up my university’s online bookstore. I couldn’t believe that textbooks could cost so much! Thankfully, someone introduced me to Slugbooks the summer before I started college. And today I’m passing this magic information along to you! I don’t even want to think about how much money I would have wasted by buying all of my textbooks through my university’s… Read more »
Ah, the ever debated question: Do I want to attend a local university… or do I want to see the world? At least, it’s a debated question among high school students in my town, because there’s an amazing university right here on our doorstep that often looks overlooked. Not a junior college, but an actual university… that happens to be in our town. And I ended up at said university. Thus, today I’m discussing the pros and cons of attending… Read more »
