Tips for Succeeding at College from the College Search Blog
You may find your dormitory digs a bit tighter than you’d like. If you’re organized, though, you can make the most of your space while gracing your space with a personal touch or two. Basically, the idea is to use decorations that don’t put holes in the walls (or built-in furniture) while still making the [...]
By now you’re entering dorm life, and that means living with perfect strangers. While you may be one of the lucky few to get lucky enough to have the best-lifelong-friend-you-could-ever-ask-for as a college roommate, you might also find yourself sharing a room with some interesting personalities. Here are a few of the most common roommate [...]
In addition to bedbugs, lice are among the most common communicable bugs that are likely to cause dorm-wide pandemonium. A single louse (yes, that’s really the singular form of “lice”)
Like other communal housing scenarios, dorm life comes with some unique health risks. Between the frequent turnaround, close contact, and shared restroom facilities, dorms are ideal breeding grounds for communicable bugs! The most common species found in American settings are bedbugs and lice, and most dorm residents will come into contact with at least one [...]
For some students, toting the soiled stack of dirty laundry home on weekends may be a potential fix, but for out-of-state students and those who want to have a social life on weekends (never mind being able to breath fresh air in their car and retain the good will of their parents!), it’s time to [...]
Okay, so you’ve finally arrived! You’re a coed, a collegiate, an official college student and resident of the campus of your choice. You have good reason to be excited and—it’s okay to admit it to yourself, at least—a little anxious, too. Just because you’re a rookie at this whole college thing, everyone else doesn’t have [...]
Katelyn from PSU popped us an email a couple days ago asking the following: “On average, how does an off-campus apartment compare to a dorm, space-wise? Are we talking like twice as big or barely bigger? Do you really get any bang for your buck?”
Although you may have known your best friend since grade school, it may not be the wisest idea to go to college with them. Some students make the mistake of choosing a college based on their best friend’s choice. They then decide to share a college dorm room with them. However, this can often forecast [...]
If you’re a newly-minted college student moving into a dorm for the first time this fall, you and your new floormates will almost surely be forced to partake in the awkward icebreaking meeting where everyone is supposed to meet one another and make new friends. I’m fairly certain whoever coined the term “icebreaker” was some [...]
Many colleges and universities require you to live on campus for your freshman year, and this usually means living in a cramped dorm room with a bathroom down the hall, no air conditioning, annoying neighbors, the smell of old pizza and beer, and every kind of strange, interesting, funny, or annoying person you could imagine. [...]
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