Congratulations! You have graduated, completed your college experience and you are now ready to start the real world on your own…or with a roomie. There are many different factors you should consider before you make your decision on whether or not you want to start your post grad life with a roommate or alone. Here …
Moving back home with your parents is far from pleasant, especially if you expected to land the job of your dreams, conquer the world, and get a place of your own after college graduation. If you’ve recently graduated college and have had to move home after being unable to find a job, you shouldn’t feel …
Moving Back Home After College? Avoid Parental Conflict Before it Starts Read More »
Beyond final projects and endless exams, it’s hard to imagine anything else that can be more stressful about college graduation. While this is very much a time for celebration and excitement, it is also wrought with challenging final academic obligations, worried anticipation about “the real world”, and the impending goodbyes to take place. Graduation is …
College Graduation: Navigating the Goodbyes and Beginning Again Read More »
I belong to a group of more than five friends from high school. After going away to college, I was immersed in the sea of eager freshmenhood (no, that isn’t a real word) and selfishly put my “old” relationships on the backburner. I began building a close relationship with my roommate and other girls in …
Adapting With the Times – Make New Friends, Keep “Old” Ones Read More »
All throughout my years in college, I made a valiant effort to avoid getting into any kind of serious relationship. I wanted to have absolutely no attachments during college so I would be able to leave for New York – like I had always planned to – at the end of college. Unfortunately, love hit …
Should I Stay or Should I Go: What to do with that Romance at the End of College Read More »
Though the situations seem a lot alike, having a roommate in a college dorm and living with someone in the real world can be two completely different situations. When you don’t have class all day, eat in a dining hall and have everything at your fingertips, apartment life can get a bit, well, annoying. I …
Dating is different now than it ever used to be. With the emergence of the internet more and more people are meeting their future spouses on dating websites. I can think of a number of people off the top of my head who met guys and gals in different states, did the long distance dating …
For me, college was the ultimate anecdote to a lonely and awkward high school experience. I had so few friends and so little confidence upon entering college that I was terrified! Within my first year in school, I had befriended more people than I can even remember. And it was just the beginning… College is …
Even if you were an unfashionable, awkward, honor-list geek in high school – like me – chances are that you finally found love in college. I mean, really – how can one go through four years of constant contact with hundreds, if not thousands, of other young, eager, excited specimens of the opposite sex, not …
