For Students: The Keys to a Happy Dorm Life
Now that summer has drawn to a close and the school year has arrived, many of you will have left the nest for the first time and moved into that staple of college comedy: the dorm. As a recent college...
View ArticleWhy College Students Today Can’t Write
Today’s post is brought to you by Braintrack.com, an online resource for university, college, and career searches. You can check out their blog here! College professors have been bemoaning the lack of...
View ArticleTips from the eNotes Intern: Getting Over the Post-Winter Break Blues
Here at eNotes, our intern evidently doesn’t pull any punches. Following are the straight up facts about the post-winter break blues (aka ‘WAA’) and how to overcome them with this six step program,...
View Article“Mediocris Scholaris”: The Average Student Scholarship Contest
Whether you’re preparing to attend college or you’re already there, you’ll probably have figured out by now that applying for scholarships to fulfill that expensive education is almost as difficult and...
View ArticleYour Major Isn’t All that Major
Yippee! You’re going to COLLEGE! You’re probably getting hours and hours of sleep because you don’t spend any time at all mulling over all the new, unknown, big, scary things that come bundled up in...
View ArticleHow College Is Like That Juicy Hamburger You Just Don’t Want to End
Just come with us on this one… eNotes’ intern offers more advice on how to savor college and prep for the real world, which in foodie-terms can only be likened to that salad bar at the Souplantation–a...
View ArticleBlinded by Science
How eNotes’ Math and Science intern overcame his trouble with the sciences and learned to love his Biochemistry major. Science: the subject that many find so difficult to understand (and so boring to...
View ArticleThis is the Real World
And no, it’s not the kind where seven people are picked to live in a house. In our editorial intern’s final post, she tells you all the things you shouldn’t waste your time worrying about in this time...
View ArticleAnother Kind of Green: How Studying Abroad Can Improve Your College Experience
To study abroad or not to study abroad? It’s a question that confronts college students on a frequent basis, introducing an inevitable flurry of related questions that plague us: when should I go?...
View ArticleHow to Make the Most of your Study Abroad Experience
Part 2 of “Another Kind of Green”: 15 helpful tips from our editorial intern on how to prepare for and make the most of your time studying abroad. “Once in a while when it’s good, it’ll feel like it...
View ArticleA Day in the Life of a Student Researcher
Are you studying for a career in the sciences? Not sure where to begin to gather that lab experience that is oh so important for obtaining your degree and landing a great job? Our Math and Science...
View ArticleHow to Succeed in Job Interviews
College and high school seniors, graduation day is almost upon us! What a happy and exciting time. But lurking behind that eagerness to rush out into the world is that old nagging reminder—it says,...
View ArticleHow To Be Successful at a Large University
Success: “The accomplishment of an aim or purpose” (Merriam-Webster). Success is what every person should strive to reach every day. It is the backbone and motivator for all of our wants and needs....
View ArticleSurvivor: Finals Edition
Our top 10 study tips to help you survive dreaded finals week. You’re going out on a date tonight. It’s with someone you really like. You’ve been looking forward to this for several months. But...
View Article16 Days of Summer
eNotes’ editorial intern shares his tips of how to make the most of your high school summer. Or any summer, for that matter! I’m a huge Harry Potter fan. My grandma bought me the first book when I was...
View ArticleBecome an eNotes TA!
Are you a high school or undergraduate student interested in helping your fellow peers? Perhaps you tutor on the side, or go out of your way to help friends with their homework? Well, now there’s a...
View ArticleThe High Cost of College
How to decide whether a four-year degree is right for you. In a post from May last year we pondered the question, should everyone go to college? And what might still be surprising to some, the answer...
View ArticleeNotes Presents Students of Change Series: The Social Media Do-Gooder
“At 24 years old having 61,000 followers on Twitter, people always ask me if there’s something profound I did to make that happen and my answer is always no. I just showed people that I cared.” – Emily...
View ArticleeNotes Students of Change Series: the Fashionably Conscious NGO
“I dreamt up Project Sina in college and always thought that I would pursue the endeavor later on in my career. I guess there is a perception that one has to be of a certain age and have collected a...
View ArticleeNotes Visits UW, Brings Free Coffee and Free Passes
This weekend, our social media team here at eNotes helped sponsor TOSA’s Taiwanese Carnival at the University of Washington. We stocked our booth with five gallons of free coffee, 300+ donuts, boxes of...
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