It’s hard to miss the pop-up school supplies section in the front of almost every store around the end of July. It’s time for parents to grab the supply checklist and wedge a cart brimming with spiral notebooks, composition pads, calculators, glue sticks, markers, crayons, tissue boxes, shoes, and clothes through crowded isles. Parents know […]
It is summer right now, but the time for your children to get back to school is going to come in just a matter of a few months. The time will pass in an instant and you will find yourself unprepared. So, to make sure that everything goes right when your children need to start […]
If you were porking someone the weeks leading up until Freshman Orientation and using the L-word, chances are you are “doing the long-distance thing” at college. And chances are a sizable percentage of your brain is elsewhere, when it should be focused on making new friends, pitching a column to the school newspaper, and discovering […]
Roommates are a wild bunch, by nature, by definition. A major part of the college experience is being thrown in with a complete stranger and forced to live with them, adapt to them and somehow learn to get along without killing one another. In my view, given the roommates I’ve had over the years, they should […]
Ahh, dorm living. For many a college student, sharing a 15 x 15 space with one window is an unavoidable reality of the higher learning experience. But your room does not have to be a dull, lifeless crash pad! It can be a warm and inviting space where everyone wants to hang out. And for […]
It’s time to face the music: summer is really coming to an end. Although I know that as a grown-ass woman the end of summer just means I have to keep on going to work, with no hope of finding a new crush in homeroom, I still get that back to school vibe right before Labor Day hits. […]
The start of the brand-new school year is the right time to begin new habits focused on health for you and your family. Maybe you’ve allowed some of your child’s good habits to fall by the wayside. Or maybe you’ve discovered some wonderful healthy tips that you’d like to incorporate into their life. Either way, […]
I have a lot of regrets about my college education. I regret that tuition was $40,000 a year, so that my classmates were mostly rich, white kids. I regret that I am paying back thousands in student loans. I regret that my journalism program forced me to take an introductory class on reporting, even though […]
Sharpen your pencils, little monsters: The University of Virginia is offering a class on Lady Gaga called “GaGa for Gaga: Sex, Gender, and Identity.” Taught by grad student Christa Romanosky, the Lady Gaga class is a prerequisite course to essay writing on the theme of how the mama monster pushes social boundaries. Students will listen […]
