Tag Archives: College

How to Survive Living With Multiple Roommates

Survive Living With Multiple Roommates - Tips for Living with Roommates // ew & pt

Throughout college, I’ve gone from one roommate to multiple roommates. By multiple, I’m talking 6-8 of us in one house. After freshman year, most of the housing situations are living with a house full of people. It’s super intimidating. Plus, I went in with only one or two friends, meaning I lived with a handful of random girls. That sounds even scarier, but I ended up making a lot of friends!Although living with that many girls seems like a nightmare, it was an overall good experience. There were always ups and downs and major pet peeves, but I’m going to impart some real wisdom for living with a lot of housemates.

Whether you’re living with friends or not, I promise you’ll want to punch everyone in the house at some point. Confined spaces and a bunch of girls who are all stressed about college can be dangerous. I also promise that other nights you’ll be on cloud nine. There were always ups and downs and major pet peeves, but I’m going to impart some real wisdom and some handy tips for living with a lot of housemates.

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How to Form Relationships with Professors

How to Form Relationships with Professors - Making Connections with Professors / ew & pt

I know! I was skeptical, too. I went into college thinking going to get coffee with professors and talking to them about non-academic things was a load of B.S. Honestly, I assume a lot of college-related tips and insights are sort of B.S. But, as a senior, I can promise you that it is possible to form relationships with professors that go beyond sitting in their class.

There are some professors whose office hours I visit to chat and others who I tell about my blog and it’s lovely. Plus, it’s important to form relationships with professors. It can help you learn industry insights, make networking connections for internships and jobs, have a great reference during your career hunt or grad school application process and they can even be a great source of advice. Plus, when you make strong connections with professors they become a wonderful resource.

To clarify, by “relationships with professors” I am not talking about some PLL Aria and Ezra, student and teacher kind of business. Don’t do that. I digress. Here’s how to make some strong, genuine (non-morally ambiguous) connections with your college professors.

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How to Choose The Perfect Backpack for College (& What’s in Mine)

This is a sponsored post in partnership with High Sierra and Her Campus Media. All words and opinions are my own!

How to Choose The Perfect Backpack for College ( & What's in Mine)

From the time we’re in elementary school up until basically forever, backpacks are essential. My backpack holds my books and laptop one day for class and a change of clothes and my makeup bag for a weekend getaway the next. When you’re buying something that you’ll use every day for as long as possible (until it invariably rips), you want something good. Having owned plenty of backpacks (and some *shudder* messenger bags) in my time, I’ve finally figured out the formula for finding the perfect backpack for college.

While shopping for all of your college essentials don’t forget to shop for the crown jewel of it all — your backpack. Here’s exactly how to choose the perfect backpack and a peek inside of mine.

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12 Things You Should Know About Yourself Before College

12 Things You Should Know About Yourself Before College - Things You MUST Know Before College // ew & pt

Does anyone really know themselves? In some moments we might feel 100% confident that yes, we do and in others, we might just feel like a giant question mark. I think during different periods in our lives we discover more pieces of who we are, and college is one of those periods. Between packing lists and summer reading assignments, your brain is on overdrive the summer before college. Do you want more things to worry about? Of course you do! You don’t really need to worry about these things, they’re more or less just some good things to think about. These are things you might already know about yourself or things you can spend the summer before college learning.

I know there’s a lot to think about, but try to stay calm. Don’t stress too much–You’ll learn these things about yourself eventually, but it’s best to learn them as soon as possible.

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