College Life

TweetSharebar Tweet College life is a time for new friends, new living arrangements, new experiences and new threats.   The first lesson to learn in college is how to be safe on and around your campus. The Basics: Reduce the risk of becoming a victim of theft or assault by remembering to lock your doors (even just to go down the hall to the laundry room), keeping valuables (laptops, ipods, etc) out of plain site, close windows on the first floor and ensure that anytime you access a secure...Read Full Story

Over the past four years, my career as a tenant and subleter, with and without Craigslist, has been chaotic at best. I remember freshman year when I was assigned to an all-girls floor of “the Ritz” Claflin, one of the older, neglected buildings at BU. The culture of the dorm was divided, half of us came from wealthy, Jewish families and had never had to share anything in our lives, and the other half were grateful to have vending machines in the basement. Admittedly part of the former, I...Read Full Story

Prior to becoming a Grad Assist, I worked in the Office of Admissions for a good 2-3 years as a campus tour guide. I believe that first impressions really do count. I loved giving the tours, as it was an opportunity for me to play a part in prospective students decisions. I still remember my tour and my tour guide at Lynn. Very often, I will walk past someone on campus, or meet someone, and they’ll say: “hey, you were my tour guide when I first came to Lynn”. I feel a sense of accomplishment...Read Full Story

Being a recounting of my of apartment issues, I am including an image of the Fung-wah Bus Sign because, truth be told, it perfectly sums up the last four years of my life.  I gave Boston all of three months to capture my attention until surrendering to the allure of the $15, often 3-hour ride (depending on how much speed the friendly Asian driver had taken that day) to NYC. By the end of my college career I actually had two of the head Fung-wah coordinators programmed into my phone, so that...Read Full Story

OK. So what I'm hearing from responses from the last post and several others is the sentiment: DON'T LEAVE COLLEGE. Everyone wishes they were still there.After reading the advice everyone left for me, a lot of things sunk in. Trying to make college 'the best years of my life' shouldn't be a burden but rather an exciting realization that it's a completely unique time in my life. There are things I can take advantage of and appreciate without also looking forward to the future.I'd like to thank...Read Full Story

I have been waiting for this event for so long. KAT looked at bringing it to campus last year, but because of liability reasons general counsel decided it wasn’t the best idea. This year they granted us permission and the event was a huge success. Since we started at 11am there has been lines to check out this great experience. We started off doing sign ups with groups of six, but it wasn’t working because people were not there when their team was going. We went into first come first serve...Read Full Story

Lynette, John, Mark, and Tova just got to Atlanta. We are here for the Association for the Promotion of Campus Activities Conference. This will my second year year and it is a blast. We get to see all kinds of showcases for events to bring to campus. We registered for the conference and right outside registration were two individuals: one doing balloon animals, the other doing face painting. John got “Joker” painted on his arm. Tova got a balloon animal of Tinkerbell. SHE WAS SO EXCITED...Read Full Story

Oklahoma State University kicks off the weekend. A weekend of pure fun, excitement, friendship, and leadership. This was one of my favorite weekends this whole academic year. It was my second NACURH conference, but this time I was representing SAACURH as Director. As part of the National Board of Directors we reviewed RHA Building Block, Program of the Year, and School of the Year. Both of the National Offices: NACURH Information Center and National Services and Recognition Office were up for...Read Full Story

BOCA RATON - Police were searching the Florida Atlantic University campus this morning looking for a gunman who fired two shots during an on-campus party overnight. One person -- who is not a student at the school -- was injured slight in the shooting at the University Village Apartments. It was not clear if the person was actually hit by a bullet, officials said. The campus is on lockdown. Classes were canceled at the Boca Raton campus and students are being told to stay in their dorm...Read Full Story

The dinner showcase was amazing. We ended up sitting at a table with a couple of agents because Mark had to sit with the co-op buyers in the state of Florida. One of the agents could analyze handwriting. Tova eagerly volunteered to do it first. He gave her two sentences that she had to write in cursive handwriting. Normally you would write more than two sentences but to be brief because we were at dinner it was. THE AGENT WAS COMPLETELY RIGHT WITH EVERYTHING HE SAID! It was really neat. After...Read Full Story