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Things Every Freshman Should Know Their First Year of College

Heading back to school this fall will be much different compared to the past four years. For every incoming freshman, it will be emotional in every sense of the word—nostalgic, exciting and even scary. Your freshman year will be a year full of trials and tribulations, a year of exploration, life lessons, new challenges and […]

Words Of Wisdom From Your TA

Almost every college professor has at least one teaching assistant, but sometimes a professor has a TA who’s also an undergraduate student. These people usually just grade papers and maybe hold some office hours to answer students’ questions. However, the experience is worth more than its value on a resume. A good TA will come […]

Microwave Recipes: A Guide

You might not have rolled out of bed until 20 minutes before your class or you might have oodles of time to spare, but you just don’t want to spend money on ingredients for an elaborate meal. In these or similar cases, you might want to have some recipes for easy snacks you can make […]

Social Media Awareness: Staying Private, Landing The Job

Social Media is arguably the most and and will be always be the most relevant space invented. It can be used for an abundant amount of situations ranging from personal accounts to advertising to entertainment to even connecting with businesses. There is pretty much no setting where social media isn’t being used. There are a […]

The Best Ways To Stay Safe On Campus

College is fun, college is chill, college is “the best four years of your life,” but the actuality is a college campus can be scary sometimes. Being on campus and being safe are two things that don’t always go hand in hand. Campus safety has been a huge concern for years. In 2014, almost 50,000 […]

13 Crazy College Courses

School pride is one thing, but what about your classes? Sure, you’re learning tons of valuable skills and information that will contribute to your career and your academic goals, but what about learning some really cool information? The Brief has found several classes that are just too awesome not to talk about, and they might […]

A College Love Triangle to Learn From in music

(Originally titled, “This draft is a mess, just like my love life”) Here I present the typical college love triangle, described by music. First, a boy and girl magically fall in love senior year of high school. Plot twist, the girl is me. It seemed like fate. We met at summer camp as eight year […]