Fitting It All In: Tips for Finding Balance in Your College Career
Fitting It All In: Tips for Finding Balance in Your College Career Written by Mary Beth Hills My roommate looked around our room on Thursday morning. Half-finished projects for an upcoming retreat she was leading littered the floor, along with leftover glitter from Halloween costumes, leaves tracked in from outside, textbooks, papers, and makeup containers. [...]
Share What Your Mama Gave You: Making Time for Talents as a Full-time Student
Share What Your Mama Gave You: Making Time for Talents as a Full-time Student Written by Mary Beth Hills Wake up. Eat breakfast. Go to school. Sit in school all day. Stay after for French club/basketball practice/National Honor Society service hours. Go home. Do homework. Eat dinner. Do more homework. Go to bed, just to [...]
Help to Save Music Education in Schools
Help to Save Music Education in Schools Written by Devin Miller source of both pictures: www.dosomething.org/bands DoSomething.org and The VH1 Save the Music Foundation are asking teens like you to help keep music alive in schools! By entering a video contest you could win $5,000 for your school music program! With budget cuts occurring everyday, [...]
Start Building Your Service Resume Now!
Written by Devin Miller, Relate Contributing Writer Even if you’re not in college yet, you can start building your resume with job experience, internships and volunteer work. The key is to find opportunities that are related to your interests and career aspirations. Job experience: Velia Biagianti and Kelly Martineau, both education majors, work at a [...]
You. A Published Author. Yes, You!
Written by Ellen Marie Hawkins, Relate Contributing Writer (Photo by covers.scarecrowpress.com) Market guide. Literary Agent. Query. If these words confuse you but you would like to be a writer, they’re words to familiarize yourself with. These are the gates into the publishing world, and every writer who’s peeked inside understands them and how they will [...]
Stop Worrying About the Future and Start Focusing on the Present
Written by Devin Miller, Relate Contributing Writer Will I get into my dream college? Will I fall in love? Will I have a successful career? We ask ourselves questions like these every day; questions about the unknown. A recent study showed 79 percent of teens are fearful of their futures. Bobbi DePorter, the co-founder of SuperCamp [...]
Excel in School with Bobbi DePorter’s Quantum Learning Tips
Written by Devin Miller, Relate Contributing Writer Starting to feel like the mid-winter blues are seeping into your performance in the classroom? Bobbi DePorter, co-founder of Super Camp and president of Quantum Learning Network, created nine helpful tips that can improve your academic success. 1. S.L.A.N.T.- This is a mnemonic device you will want to [...]
Yale University Takes a Cue From “High School Musical”
Written by Devin Miller, Relate Contributing Writer (Photo by Office of Undergraduate Admissions) Smiling students run down the stairs, belting music and dancing to a catchy beat. Sound familiar? If you guessed the ending scene of “High School Musical” in this case, you are mistaken. The new Yale University promotional video puts a creative musical [...]
Sylvan Learning Reveals College Prep Tips
Written by Devin Miller, Relate Contributing Writer (Photo by Sylvan Learning) College applications, SAT tests, AP classes, meetings with your guidance counselor… junior year has it all! It is no wonder that this school year is pivotal for preparing for college. The entire college admissions process can seem extremely overwhelming, but Sylvan Learning is here to [...]
Mean Girls: The Truth About Cliques
Written by Devin Miller, Relate Contributing Writer The popular movie “Mean Girls” introduced us to the Plastics, a group of life-sized barbies led by their queen bee, Regina George. While this inseparable clique ruled the school, other groups navigated their way through halls of North Shore High. As Janis Ian put it, “You got [...]
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