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Freshman 15: How to Avoid Weight Gain in College, PART 3
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Wait! First, check out the previous “freshman 15” articles to find even more great weight loss tips!
Apart from requiring an inconvenient mid-year new clothing investment, weight gain can be a health burden. Earlier, we talked about ways to add physical activity to your day, and avoid emotional and situational factors that tend towards calorie imbalance. Here we’ll discuss some more factors to avoid and some actions to take.
College offers opportunities for great achievement and great failure, both academically and socially, with concomitant stress. Numerous temptations to relieve the tension of studying and dating with snacks, high calorie drinks, and late-night pizza runs spell disaster for the waistline.
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(No Ratings Yet)Freshman 15: How to Avoid Weight Gain in College, PART 2
Posted by Jack Milgram toThat first batch of extra poundage is devilishly difficult to shed, and may accompany you the rest of your life. Check out the first article on the topic and read on for more wight control tips.
Since obesity is such a health hazard, how can you avoid this unwelcome addition to your body? Moreover, why does it happen? Knowing why something occurs is a major accomplishment, and forewarned is forearmed.
Problem: Isolation from home
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(No Ratings Yet)Web Review: Imendi.com
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Have you ever had a situation when you are preparing to travel abroad, or for an important meeting with a business client from another country? I’m sure you have encountered at least one of the two. You are planning your trip, and realize that the language barrier might be a real problem. What should you do? Where should you go? Time is scarce and you don’t actually need to learn that much stuff, just some of the basics to help you manage daily life.
There is a solution for your problem. It’s called Imendi.com – it’s an online set of flash cards and tests, which offer you the basic foreign language learning experience. The service is pretty simple and at the same time helpful. For it to work, however, you have to be determined, and possess a great desire to learn the language. Continue reading…
(No Ratings Yet)Freshman 15: How to Avoid Weight Gain in College
Posted by Jack Milgram toIt has become almost axiomatic that students will gain a substantial amount of weight in the first semester or two or three of college. The reasons are manifold, and the prevention is not easy.
However, self-awareness is a very good beginning strategy for preventing and correcting problems. We will look at some causes of collegiate weight gain and suggest some adaptive strategies in this and future articles.
First, most high schools still require some sort of physical education , whether it is a several-times weekly PE class with dreaded dodge ball games and calisthenics, or interscholastic sports that take kids other schools to compete in a variety of sports.
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(No Ratings Yet)Practical College Classes: Use Them in Real Life, Find a Job! PART 4
Posted by Jack Milgram toGetting a college degree is a major investment of both time and money, and it would reassure hard-pressed families and students to have some assurance that their education was going to prove useful.
We talked in earlier articles about finding practical courses in the ivory tower, and seeking training in state colleges, community colleges, and commercial schools, for the health and computing fields. These ideas continue below.
Another direction to take in terms of instantly practical skills is the food service industry. The Culinary Institute of America, in the beautiful Hudson Valley of New York State, or the Napa Valley of California, and the Restaurant School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania both offer highly professional training that prepares students to work in any food related setting.
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(No Ratings Yet)Web Review: Readfa.st
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Is reading a problem? Is it tough to read important information fast enough? Are do you simply want to start reading faster because all those books are not going read themselves?
If your answer is yes, we’ve got a great tool for you to check out. It’s going to improve your reading skills. Plus, it’s fun. Our staff enjoyed it thoroughly, and that is not something you hear often about reading remediation! The name of the resource is Readfa.st. ‘Read Fast’ can be your personal trainer in the world of reading. Continue reading…
(No Ratings Yet)Practical College Classes: Use Them in Real Life, Find a Job! PART 3
Posted by Jack Milgram toCollege tuition, ludicrously high, and rising fast, makes it vital that our expenditures pay off. While it is lovely to be able to study something interesting but totally impractical, it may not be feasible in today’s economy.
We discussed in an earlier article the challenge of finding practical courses if you are enrolled in a liberal arts institution, and want to augment your transcript with something you can use.
We also began discussing community colleges and the job descriptions that are hot items these days.
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(No Ratings Yet)Practical College Classes: Use Them in Real Life, Find a Job! PART 2
Posted by Jack Milgram toWith the price of an education rising to ridiculous heights, making sure that the student realizes a return on this huge investment is becoming more and more critical.
In an earlier article, we talked about finding practical courses in a liberal arts institution where vocationally oriented courses are scarce. In this article, we will push the decision point back a bit, and look at your choice of institution to allow the greatest chance of taking useful courses for work and life.
The category of college that probably offers the greatest range of courses is the large state-affiliated institution. These mega universities offer everything from the arcane and impractical to courses that are almost on-the-job training.
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(No Ratings Yet)Web Review: MyFoliotek.com
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A lot of students face the same problem after graduation – finding the right job, at least for the start. There are also internship opportunities to consider, which provide valuable experience, so much needed for your future career. The bottom line? Landing a good starting job may be decisive for you.
One of the most important pieces of this puzzle is your resume, or more appropriately for this article – your portfolio. The tool that we are going to tell you about today is going to help you in creating your unique online identity , and should become a great addition to your LinkedIn.com page (if you have one). It’s called – MyFoliotek.com
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(No Ratings Yet)Practical College Classes: Use Them in Real Life, Find a Job!
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When a student graduates from college these days, the chances are good that they will have a substantial amount of college loan debt to pay off. The current recession’s conventional wisdom was that college or graduate schools were safe havens, especially after lay-offs.
The idea was that by the time the program was completed, the economy would be better off, and jobs would be available again. This prompted many people to return to school, but now they are graduated, with no job prospects in their field, and a load of tuition bills hanging over their heads.
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