Your freshman year of college should be one of the most exciting years of your life. But living in a 12×12 shoebox room with cinderblock walls with another person and sharing a bathroom with your entire hall can put a damper on the fun pretty quickly. Fortunately, more colleges are offering single rooms and even […]
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Students who’ve been accepted into graduate school often ask if they’ll be able to live on campus. At many schools, the answer is yes. Most large universities have housing specifically for graduate students, and many of these options are available at a lower rent than comparable off-campus apartments in the area. Living on campus can
College is supposed to be the best four years of your life. But if you’re a vocally conservative student, you might find life on most campuses today to be more of a source of consternation than conviviality. Even though most college campuses lean far to the left, you can still find highly regarded schools where
The Ivy League is just an athletic conference, but it has become synonymous with prestige and status among colleges and universities. It has eight schools, all of them among the most selective and elite in the country. Each of those eight schools is associated with its own set of stereotypes, some true, many not. Here
College should be the time of your life. But a bad freshman roommate can turn it into a veritable nightmare. You can avoid that problem — and ensure yourself peace and privacy — by getting a single room. The problem is that most colleges have very few available and usually reserve them for upperclassmen and
Millsaps College is a small liberal arts college in the heart of Jackson, Mississippi. Many residents believe it to be the most rigorous and prestigious school in the state. Although it has fewer than 1,000 students, Millsaps has produced a disproportionate number of distinguished alumni, including many Rhodes and Fulbright scholars, along with numerous politicians,
The Pac 12 is a strong conference both athletically and academically, but it often gets marginalized due to its West Coast location. Since most college sports coverage is focused on the SEC and Big Ten, which are located in the Eastern and Central time zones and have the biggest and most rabid fan bases, the
I got into powerlifting as a teenager and it completely changed my life. Through hours of training in the gym, the awkward, scrawny, unsure kid of my youth slowly gave way to a strong, confident, competitive young man. I had finally found a sport I was better than mediocre at. When it came time to
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Centre College is a true hidden gem of a liberal arts college. A peer school of Sewanee, Rhodes, and Furman, it offers rigorous academics and a high-energy social scene in a residential college setting nestled in the picturesque small town of Danville, KY. Aside from a handful of seniors who get permission to live off
The ACC flies under the radar, living in the shadows of its flashier neighbor, the SEC. But the conference packs a punch athletically, bringing home three of the last six NCAA basketball championships and two of the last six football titles. Academically, a strong argument exists that the ACC is second to none. The conference
The Big Ten has long been synonymous with excellence in both athletics and academics. And with the addition of UCLA and USC in the near future, it looks to solidify its spot as the “smartest” of the Power 5 conferences. You can get a world-class education at any Big Ten school. But if you want
If you’re headed to Sewanee, first, congratulations, and second, I hate you. OK, I don’t hate you, I’m just jealous as hell. I graduated from Sewanee a…few…years ago (we’ll leave it at that) and still wish I could go back and do it all over again. You’re going to have a blast, I promise. Since
