Thursday, February 18, 2010
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5. School Planner: This little time-managing technique has saved me in college. This is where the smart planning begins. Get an hour-by-hour planner. If you happen to have a busy life from sun-up to sun-down like most of us, I suggest you purchase one that accounts for hours later than 5 p.m. Schedule everything from breakfast to last minute homework before bed. You'll be amazed at how much it helps if you stick to it.
4. Do not procrastinate: This is in our nature as young adults. We put things off. But if you have noticed all your work and activities piling up and causing you a great amount of stress, you have to take action. Start small. Try finishing a homework assignment the day it is assigned rather than the night before it is due. Next, try taking care of any unfinished business for the day before you log on to Facebook. Before you know it, maybe you'll even have all your responsibilities done before hanging out with friends late at night.
3. Don't over-book: Sometimes we just don't think. We get in over our heads and plan work, school, friends, family, hobbies, clubs, boyfriends/girlfriends and errands into the tiniest slot of time. Talk about stressful. This is where that planner comes in handy. Make specific appointments for your time. Make sure each commitment of your time has its own special hour or so. It may seem lame penciling in your buddies, but it takes such a load off of your back.
2. Use spare hours: Warning! this may not always be fun. But it helps…a lot. You know that hour between lunch and your next class that you usually spend sitting for an extra long time in the cafeteria or taking a quick nap on the third floor of the Union? Or maybe it's the two hours after class, but before work. Use this time! Catch up on homework or read a chapter of your textbook. It really does make a difference.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
10 Valentine's Day Dates
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5. Picnic: Go outside! Your date may like nothing more than a simple evening with you at the park. Go enjoy the pretty view of the lake at Craighead Forrest Park. This is great especially if you are on a budget. Just make a simple, but tasty meal. Pack it up and get ready for romance.
4. Progressive Date: This is a really fun and creative idea. Begin the evening at a fun restaurant with your favorite appetizer and drinks. Order, enjoy, then leave. Move on to a great place for a meal. Enjoy a slow, romantic and fun dinner there. Next, move on to your favorite dessert joint. This date is fun and interesting. Plus it draws out the date for more time without getting bored.
3. Group Date: If you aren't in a relationship and you know several friends in a similar situation, organize a group date. I can vouch for these being a blast. Divide into groups of guys and girls (about 4 or 5 of each.) The guys take care of planning and paying for the date. It doesn't have to be much, but it often turns out to be a great time just to hang out with a group of friends on a date. Something about getting dressed up and going out always make things more fun.
2. Play Date: Who says dates must include dinner and a movie? Just have fun! Whether this is your buddies or significant other. Plan something fun. Just play games or go skating or something else that isn't part of the normal routine. Valentine's day is special! Make it interesting by doing something unique and entertaining.
1. Blind Date: These can be scary. However, if you don't have a date and you just really want a special someone for the evening, chances are there is someone else who feels the same way. Have a friend fix you up with a friend or relative in the same boat. There is no guarantee this will produce true love, but it will give you a new person to converse with and learn about. Be open-minded and enjoy your new acquaintance.
5. Picnic: Go outside! Your date may like nothing more than a simple evening with you at the park. Go enjoy the pretty view of the lake at Craighead Forrest Park. This is great especially if you are on a budget. Just make a simple, but tasty meal. Pack it up and get ready for romance.
4. Progressive Date: This is a really fun and creative idea. Begin the evening at a fun restaurant with your favorite appetizer and drinks. Order, enjoy, then leave. Move on to a great place for a meal. Enjoy a slow, romantic and fun dinner there. Next, move on to your favorite dessert joint. This date is fun and interesting. Plus it draws out the date for more time without getting bored.
3. Group Date: If you aren't in a relationship and you know several friends in a similar situation, organize a group date. I can vouch for these being a blast. Divide into groups of guys and girls (about 4 or 5 of each.) The guys take care of planning and paying for the date. It doesn't have to be much, but it often turns out to be a great time just to hang out with a group of friends on a date. Something about getting dressed up and going out always make things more fun.
2. Play Date: Who says dates must include dinner and a movie? Just have fun! Whether this is your buddies or significant other. Plan something fun. Just play games or go skating or something else that isn't part of the normal routine. Valentine's day is special! Make it interesting by doing something unique and entertaining.
1. Blind Date: These can be scary. However, if you don't have a date and you just really want a special someone for the evening, chances are there is someone else who feels the same way. Have a friend fix you up with a friend or relative in the same boat. There is no guarantee this will produce true love, but it will give you a new person to converse with and learn about. Be open-minded and enjoy your new acquaintance.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
10 Things Student's Don't Need
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5. Expensive things: Don't get all caught up in the society's ruling that we need the newest, most high-tech items on the market. While it may seem pretty cool at the time, these things add up and before you know it, that refund, paycheck, or money from your parent's can either be a killer savings account or a killer of your fun when it runs out.
4.Extra stress: We have enough of this, wouldn't you agree? Between class, work, parents, social life, and anything else we have on our plate, the last thing we need is more stress. For ways to reduce the excessive stress in your life, see my list on stress relief.
3. Roommate conflict: Oh how this can put a damper on the college experience! But it is bound to happen. Trust me. Something you want to put energy into is keeping peace between your roommates. Take the time to build on these friendships and save yourself and them some serious frustration later.
2. Sickness: Nobody likes being sick. But the winter always comes with the threat of some sort of cold or flu, especially on such a crowded campus. So, take steps to keep yourself and your peers healthy. Wash your hands. A lot. And actually take the advice of those signs posted all over campus warning you to stay home if you are already ill!
1. A boyfriend or girlfriend: You may disagree with me on this one. I, however, am a firm believer in this. So many students spend their college years wrapped up in a boyfriend or girlfriend, or wrapped up in trying to get one. This isn't a must, though. We have the rest of our lives ahead of us. Don't fall prey to the idea that you can only be happy if you have someone calling you their's.
5. Expensive things: Don't get all caught up in the society's ruling that we need the newest, most high-tech items on the market. While it may seem pretty cool at the time, these things add up and before you know it, that refund, paycheck, or money from your parent's can either be a killer savings account or a killer of your fun when it runs out.
4.Extra stress: We have enough of this, wouldn't you agree? Between class, work, parents, social life, and anything else we have on our plate, the last thing we need is more stress. For ways to reduce the excessive stress in your life, see my list on stress relief.
3. Roommate conflict: Oh how this can put a damper on the college experience! But it is bound to happen. Trust me. Something you want to put energy into is keeping peace between your roommates. Take the time to build on these friendships and save yourself and them some serious frustration later.
2. Sickness: Nobody likes being sick. But the winter always comes with the threat of some sort of cold or flu, especially on such a crowded campus. So, take steps to keep yourself and your peers healthy. Wash your hands. A lot. And actually take the advice of those signs posted all over campus warning you to stay home if you are already ill!
1. A boyfriend or girlfriend: You may disagree with me on this one. I, however, am a firm believer in this. So many students spend their college years wrapped up in a boyfriend or girlfriend, or wrapped up in trying to get one. This isn't a must, though. We have the rest of our lives ahead of us. Don't fall prey to the idea that you can only be happy if you have someone calling you their's.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
10 Ways to Prepare for Winter Weather
Read 10-6 at www.asuherald.com...
5. Warm up: Make sure you bundle up in your warmest clothes. Be smart. Wear gloves, a scarf, and a hat. Even if the temperatures aren't freezing, those snow balls that will be flying will be.
4. Have fun: Speaking of snow balls...don't let the potential snow day slip by without some fun! Get a group together to play in the snow or build a snow man and make snow angels. The snow doesn't come often or stay long around here. Make the most of it!
3. Stay healthy: Even if you are in great health, the cold weather always seems to bring that runny nose which can easily lead to a cold, the flu, and so on. So be smart. Keep some antibacterial gel near by and use it often! At very least, you are saving others from having to put up with your germs.
2. Watch the weather: Keep in the know. Don't take other people's word for it when it comes to something as unpredictable as the weather. Try to keep up with any updates posted on the news website. This will ensure that you aren't hit with any major surprises.
1. Enjoy: Finally, just love it! Take time to look at the beauty of the falling snow. Savor the joy among your peers as the snow covers the town. If you are anything like me, you can enjoy the gift of a snow day just fine by cuddling up with a blanket for a while and watching the snow fall from the comfort of your own couch.
5. Warm up: Make sure you bundle up in your warmest clothes. Be smart. Wear gloves, a scarf, and a hat. Even if the temperatures aren't freezing, those snow balls that will be flying will be.
4. Have fun: Speaking of snow balls...don't let the potential snow day slip by without some fun! Get a group together to play in the snow or build a snow man and make snow angels. The snow doesn't come often or stay long around here. Make the most of it!
3. Stay healthy: Even if you are in great health, the cold weather always seems to bring that runny nose which can easily lead to a cold, the flu, and so on. So be smart. Keep some antibacterial gel near by and use it often! At very least, you are saving others from having to put up with your germs.
2. Watch the weather: Keep in the know. Don't take other people's word for it when it comes to something as unpredictable as the weather. Try to keep up with any updates posted on the news website. This will ensure that you aren't hit with any major surprises.
1. Enjoy: Finally, just love it! Take time to look at the beauty of the falling snow. Savor the joy among your peers as the snow covers the town. If you are anything like me, you can enjoy the gift of a snow day just fine by cuddling up with a blanket for a while and watching the snow fall from the comfort of your own couch.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Top 10 Student Complaints About ASU
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5. Food variety/quality: Students have complained that the quality and variety of the cafeteria food in Acansa Dining Hall, even at the beginning of the semester, is unsatisfactory. With continued themes of the same old pasta, meat and potatoes, or just the usual salad bar, there is not much variety after a couple of weeks of getting use to the food.
4. Book prices: We are paying a high tuition and this payment is covering our education and our education is coming from these necessary textbooks, however the payment for the textbooks is not covered by our tuition. This seems like an outrage! What is our tuition actually paying for?
3. Fire Alarms: Last semester, a resident of NPQ was diagnosed with a perforated ear drum as a result of multiple fire alarms sounding so loudly. The volume of these alarms was already unbarable, come to find out that the alarms have been altered and increased in volume and sound for the spring semester. How can they increase this when the old sound was already a problem?
2. Supplies: According to frequent visitors of the campus store and Starbucks in the student union, the fulfillment of supplies is unaccepetable. Students say that these establishments are ofen out of key supplies on a daily, or even weekly, basis. Causing much student frustration, buyers are less motivated to visit the stores at all for their usual on-campus needs.
1. Installment fee: For students paying off their student debt, an instalment plan can be put into place. This is suppose to be to help students' ability to pay off their financial aid in regular installments. A problem is that there is a fee to set up this plan. It does not seem to make sense to ask already poor students to give up more of their money simply in order to give their first paymetns at all.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
10 Reasons to Visit Home
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5. The Town: If you are anything like me, there issomehow a sweet comfort in returning to that place that you know like the back of your hand. The shops, the park, the food joints, the movies, and even the High School is fun to go back and visit. It's just cool to be back in that familiar air again.
4. No Pressure: Oh, this one is the best. Going home means a break from reality. No school, no class, no fellow students, no college buzz, no pressure! It is so relaxing to be able to go back and plop down on the couch with a non-school-related book and chill out while munching on that favorite snack mom always makes. If you ask me, it is needed every now and then. Just go home, chill out, have fun, and enjoy!
3. Be a kid again: Do you ever find yourself acting ten years younger when you go home? This is especially a problem for the baby of the family. You go home and it's just when you were a kid again. Of course, it doesn't help that mom waits on you hand and foot and you have no responsibilities. But that isn't necessarily a bad thing! I think it is ok to go home an be a kid again from time to time.
2. Money: Or should I say lack there of? Usually, going home means not having to worry about finances for a couple of days. Parents love to help out their kids. Coming home means they take you to dinner and pick up a few things you need while their at Walmart. It is really appreciated after a semester of scraping for change.
1. Love: Yes, I know it is mushy, but it's true. How nice is it to go home to be in a place where you are loved. Even if it is just for a little while, and bickering may happen, but feeling all the love of friends, family, animals and just the cozy comfort of home is simply a great feeling. You have to love it.
5. The Town: If you are anything like me, there issomehow a sweet comfort in returning to that place that you know like the back of your hand. The shops, the park, the food joints, the movies, and even the High School is fun to go back and visit. It's just cool to be back in that familiar air again.
4. No Pressure: Oh, this one is the best. Going home means a break from reality. No school, no class, no fellow students, no college buzz, no pressure! It is so relaxing to be able to go back and plop down on the couch with a non-school-related book and chill out while munching on that favorite snack mom always makes. If you ask me, it is needed every now and then. Just go home, chill out, have fun, and enjoy!
3. Be a kid again: Do you ever find yourself acting ten years younger when you go home? This is especially a problem for the baby of the family. You go home and it's just when you were a kid again. Of course, it doesn't help that mom waits on you hand and foot and you have no responsibilities. But that isn't necessarily a bad thing! I think it is ok to go home an be a kid again from time to time.
2. Money: Or should I say lack there of? Usually, going home means not having to worry about finances for a couple of days. Parents love to help out their kids. Coming home means they take you to dinner and pick up a few things you need while their at Walmart. It is really appreciated after a semester of scraping for change.
1. Love: Yes, I know it is mushy, but it's true. How nice is it to go home to be in a place where you are loved. Even if it is just for a little while, and bickering may happen, but feeling all the love of friends, family, animals and just the cozy comfort of home is simply a great feeling. You have to love it.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
10 Registration Suggestions for Freshmen
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5. Be realistic: Schedule for class times you will go to. Avoid 8ams or night classes. Trust me on this one. If you are not a morning person now...don't pretend you'll be one next semester. This is the great thing about college! You don't have to take a class early if you don't want to. Same with night classes. It sounds like a good idea at first, but if you are a social person, it will be hard to choose going to class over hanging out with your friends.
5. Be realistic: Schedule for class times you will go to. Avoid 8ams or night classes. Trust me on this one. If you are not a morning person now...don't pretend you'll be one next semester. This is the great thing about college! You don't have to take a class early if you don't want to. Same with night classes. It sounds like a good idea at first, but if you are a social person, it will be hard to choose going to class over hanging out with your friends.
4. Don’t overload: Unless you are fixed on taking the fast track out of here, don't try to do 18 hours every semester. If you did it at first, just remember that your classes will get harder. It is a lot harder to load up with work than it sounds. Just be wise when planning out how much you can handle.
3. Talk to friends: See what they’re taking. It makes it a lot easier to take a class with a friend. Not only does it make it more fun, but it is easier to go to. You will have accountability. Plus, if you miss a day, you will have someone to call to catch up. This also applies to needing help in class or if you forgot something about an assignment.
2. Spread out hard courses: This is just a suggestion. This isn't best for everyone, but most find it to be the best plan. If you know that there are several science or math courses coming up, spread them out. Try to keep them separate if you can. This goes along with being careful about how much pressure you plan for yourself.
1. Keep records: Hang on to your unofficial transcript, 8 semester graduation plan, and write down the requirements for your major. You will need these! Especially towards the end of your college career. Plus, it will make a huge difference to your adviser if you come in prepared every semester.
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