My parents always told me that during college I would have to be the most frugal person ever just to get by. It does not have to be this way! Money doesn’t grow on trees, but if you work hard and are frugal with what you spend, you can save a lot of money to

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Is There Enough Room?: What You Really Need to Bring to College

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Being a teenage girl, my belief was that I needed to bring my entire room with me or my chance of survival was slim. As you can imagine, this created a space-related dilemma. First of all, gather all of the clothes that you want to bring into a pile. Done? Good. Now cut that pile

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How to buy and Pack for you Dorm Room

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If you’re like me- you’ve had a housing contract due recently and your next thought is about finally graduating high school. Also like me, you might have a parent asking you if you want to go out and start buying for your dorm. At some point this summer, you’ll have to. Some of you have

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Surviving Dorm Food

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Before I started College, I had heard from multiple people that Dorm Food was absolutely horrible. Yet after attending Summer Orientation, I wasn’t too worried. The few meals we had been provided by University Hospitality were excellent and the dining hall had a large amount of choices and was nowhere near the horrors I had

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So You Found Out Your Roommate, Now What?

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So you’ve just found out your room mate! This is a very exciting time since most of you have been waiting since your acceptance to find out who you will be spending your first year of college with. So you find out who they are and add them on Facebook. You start talking and getting

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The Valuable Dorm Key

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Finding out who your roommate is (or roommates are) is one of the most exciting things pre-college. The next step is getting assigned your dorm room. Then it all becomes real when you finally get to your school on move in day and open that door to your new life. It becomes an actual reality

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The Truth About Dorm Room Bathrooms

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College comes with so many new experiences for new freshmen to embrace, but it does still come with a few downfalls. For some, it is a wakeup call. Sometimes this wakeup call hits hard. For me, it wasn’t so much of a wakeup call, but more of shocker. Dorm life is great don’t get me

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Dorm Life = Distraction Central

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Do you get distracted easily? If the answer to this question is yes, then doing homework in your dorm room might become a challenge as well. Can you imagine trying to write a paper or study when there is a group talking loudly in the common room or down the hall? If your dorm ends

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Essential Frat/Dorm Room Items

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Your room in your respected fraternity can be used any way you like it. Most of it depends on the layout of your room, how big it is, if you’re sharing it with anybody, and where in the house it is. Regardless of whether you want it more as a sanctuary from the ridiculousness that

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