by Sara Laughed | Mar 17, 2017 | College Help |
Scheduling doesn’t come naturally to me. I’ve spent months on a single eight-page paper, and I’ve written a term paper in the three hours before class (#regrets). As you can imagine, neither of those are a great approach; if you take too long to write a paper, it eats...
by Sara Laughed | Mar 16, 2017 | College Help |
When I was in high school, I had the “five paragraph essay” formula drilled into my head. Every essay I wrote had an introduction and conclusion, and in between those two paragraphs were three major points to prove my thesis. I had that formula down pat —...
by Sara Laughed | Aug 14, 2016 | Inspiration |
Malala Yousafzai may be the world’s most inspiring twenty-year-old. As the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner in history, she has been campaigning for girls’ education since she was just eleven — first in her community, and, since surviving an attack by the Taliban in...
by Sara Laughed | Aug 14, 2016 | College Life |
Hard as it is to believe, it’s been four years since I started college! I still remember those first few days of orientation like they were just a few weeks ago. During orientation and the early weeks of my first semester, I was excited, inspired, and totally...
by Sara Laughed | Aug 14, 2016 | College Help |
When it comes to college students, I hear this complaint a lot: There should be a life skills class in college. Why don’t they ever teach us how to pay our taxes? Or how make our first college budget? Where am I supposed to learn that? I’ve often thought...
