by studentrg | Aug 30, 2018 | Paying for College, Student Privacy
Your son or daughter gets an email that says, “Save Big Dollars on Your Textbooks!” It comes from a company that purports to be a bookseller. So your kid clicks through, orders textbooks, and feels good about saving money. What could possibly go wrong? Plenty,...
by studentrg | Aug 25, 2018 | STEM
Mom or Dad, were you puzzled when you learned that your child was interested in a STEM career? Did you even know what that meant? Maybe you thought STEM meant a career in agriculture or botany. Although we are sure that you are now pretty much up to speed about what...
by studentrg | Aug 23, 2018 | Paying for College
September is a month when college students typically need an extra infusion of money. Fortunately, it is also a month when new opportunities for student employment arise. Here are some proven strategies that can help college students start the new school year with new...
by studentrg | Aug 20, 2018 | Career & Technical Education, STEM
“Happy Children Do Chores,” an opinion piece that KF Dell’Antonia published in The New York Times on August 18th, states a firm opinion that all children should start doing household chores when they have reached the age of only 3 or 4. “Accept no excuses,” she...
by studentrg | Aug 10, 2018 | Career Pathways, College Degrees, College Major
Stella is a college sophomore who just decided to major in psychology. “I fell in love with it as soon as I took an intro to psych course in my second semester of freshman year,” she tells us. “The problem is, now I would like to transfer to a school that has a better...