No matter what any skinny cocktail says, there’s really no alcoholic beverage that can be classified as completely “guilt-free” when it comes to health and calories. However, you can make smart choices when you head out for drinks and parties with your friends this summer. The biggest culprit ...
As an English major, I know how annoying the topic of what you’re going to do after graduation can be. “Oh, so you’re going to be a high school teacher?” is the typical suggestion. While it would be so much easier to say, “I’m pre-med,” don’t worry; there are plenty of jobs for English majors, ...
Using movies and other media to increase your proficiency in a foreign language is great if you cannot afford to travel and immerse yourself into a particular language. If you’re a beginner, it’s also a great way to familiarize yourself with common phrases and cultural nuances. In order to help language learners on their path ...
Writer’s block is the mental equivalent of having quick-dry cement poured into your ear, filling up your brain. Soon afterwards, everything comes to a sharp halt and you can’t put a thought together. It’s difficult to overcome writer’s block, but its binds on your brain can be broken. You have some work ahead of you, ...
Plenty of people have praised meditation as a great way to relieve stress. But now we have the evidence to back up that claim. A recent academic article found that meditation “attenuates anxiety through mechanisms involved in the regulation of self-referential thought processes.” In other words, by calming yourself with meditation, you can beat your ...
We all go through bouts of procrastination during a work or study session. It’s not that we don’t want to complete what’s expected of us, it’s that we often have so much going on that it’s hard to sit and focus on our most important task. For those of us here at HackCollege, productivity is ...
Throughout the Great Recession, community colleges gained popularity for allowing students to work towards a degree while paying dratsically less in tuition, but a new study by the Century Foundation shows that many of those students never managed to finish school with a bachelor’s degree at all. Community colleges serve over 11 million students, or ...
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