College essay time, yay! Time to write my life story in 600 words! (eeeeeek!) Many students are appropriately reticent (or violently opposed, as the case may be) to write their...
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It's test day, baby! Let's get psyched! Wait, just kidding. I hate tests. I don't want to do it. Please let me bury myself under the covers and watch "Game...
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United States colleges and universities now routinely charge $50,000 or more per school for tuition. Some add exorbitant fees, steep room & board, and sundry additional charges to the bill,...
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Have you ever had the awful experience of blowing it when the stakes were big? It was opening night of your show and you forgot your lines... It was the...
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We are all after that elusive "Ahhh" moment: the empty inbox. The fully checked-off to-do list. The feeling that we have CRUSHED IT today. Alas, many of scurry around our...
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College ROCKS! Or it doesn't. Some students float off to their undergraduate experience with gumdrops and sugarplum fairies in their minds ~ This will be the greatest experience of my...
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87 to-do's and 45 available minutes? No problem! Or wait, yes~ that's a problem. And a common one. Everyone in Bergen County and beyond seems to be intent on getting...
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Every high school has its own (sometimes convoluted) system for calculating students' grade point averages. Some schools in Northern New Jersey, such as IHA and Holy Angels, use a 100-point...
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The greater New York City area is rife with world-class institutions of higher learning. There are some Ivy League schools (Columbia, Princeton, Yale), some well-esteemed, nationally-regarded schools (NYU, Rutgers, UConn,...
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We've all been there: massive text book open in front of you, late-night fatigue hanging in the air. Tomorrow's supposed to be sunny, and you're looking forward to that workout...
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