While college dorm life is still considered the first time many young people experience the world away from mom and dad, college graduates are moving back home with their parents in record numbers.
If you have a college degree but you鈥檙e sleeping in your childhood bed and enjoying your mom鈥檚 cooking each night, you鈥檙e not alone. High rent prices and student loan payments, coupled with low entry-level salaries or鈥攚orse yet鈥攗nemployment, are causing more and more college grads to live with their parents.
The stress of applying to college is enough to make anyone feel anxious, but you shouldn鈥檛 drive yourself crazy. Whether you鈥檙e applying to two schools or ten, your application needs to paint a picture of who you are and what you can offer.
More and more colleges and universities are starting to refer to dorms as 鈥渞esidence halls鈥� in hopes of sounding more home-y and less prison-like, but most of the general public still calls them dorms. Whatever you want to call them, they still a convenient place for students to live while attending college.
If you鈥檙e a high school student who is starting to tour college campuses, your parents have probably pointed out that dorm rooms have come a long way since they were in school. The mini-fridge and personal coffee maker may still be popular staples, but some of today鈥檚 residence halls offer impressive amenities like rec centers, theater rooms, and swimming pools.
Living on campus can definitely be one of the best aspects of your entire college experience, but we鈥檝e all heard the horror stories about freshmen being forced to live with incompatible (translation鈥攁nnoying!) roommates for an entire school year.
Colleges with co-ed dorm rooms鈥攔ooms in which a female student lives with a male student鈥攁re growing in popularity. Experts are hoping that the trend catches on.
If the term 鈥渟enior citizen鈥� conjures images of gray-haired grandparents traveling the country by RV or living in retirement communities in Florida, then you haven鈥檛 met any seniors that are college students! More and more retired people are going back to the classroom for a variety of reasons.
Occupy Wall Street鈥攖he ongoing movement being held by protesters in the Wall Street financial district of New York City to protest and raise awareness of social and economic inequality in the United States and around the world鈥攈as been happening since the middle of September.
Similar demonstrations are being held in major cities across the U.S. and college students are jumping on the bandwagon to make their voices heard. Outrage over increased tuition and fees, student loan debt, and high unemployment rates are among their concerns.
Late last month, the College Board released its annual data on the cost of college. Although it is private schools that often get a bad rep for their hefty price tags, the average price increase at public four-year colleges and universities was higher than the average price increase at private not-for-profit colleges and universities for the fifth year in a row.
Roughly 80 percent of American college students attend a public school, which means that most students have firsthand experience with college price hikes.
Even if you didn鈥檛 go to college, you鈥檝e likely heard of the dreaded Freshman Fifteen. It鈥檚 the expression used to refer to all the weight鈥攕upposedly 15 pounds, hence the name鈥攑acked on by college students during their freshman year.
A new study conducted by Ohio State University鈥檚 Center for Human Resource Research may have debunked the fifteen pound theory. Most college students don鈥檛 gain nearly that much weight鈥攁verage weight gain is just about 2.4 pounds for women and 3.4 pounds for men.
With so many of the prettiest college campuses in the world located right here in the United States, it鈥檚 tough to narrow things down and select the most beautiful college campuses.
Together with the five gorgeous colleges and universities the five schools described and pictured below round out our list of some of the most beautiful college campuses. The lush landscaping, gorgeous buildings, and pure natural beauty are definitely easy on the eyes鈥攁nd let鈥檚 not forget all of the learning that goes on!
They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder (whoever 鈥渢hey鈥� are!) but some of the best college campuses in the U.S. are also some of the prettiest college campuses.
now includes a section on Most Beautiful Campus and Least Beautiful Campus in its annual college rankings, and it鈥檚 a safe bet that spending four years of your life at a school that鈥檚 ascetically pleasing can鈥檛 hurt.