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8 Reasons Why Professors Should Offer Extra Credit In Class

Extra credit can often be a blessing in disguise. If you’ve ever tackled a school subject that you weren’t prepared for, you understand. The great thing is that extra credit is like your second chance to prove that you are worthy of graduating. Unfortunately the opportunity to get extra credit isn’t offered much in college. Here’s why more professors should give a kid a break. 8. School can be cool, but it’s so stressful that you practically HAVE to watch Netflix for hours to de-stress. Not trying to be an enabler here, but it’s true. You can’t think while stressed out and if you can, it’s not always rational thinking. That can get you in a lot of trouble. 7. Who knows, you may unveil a new talent that could help you get a job. Some professors love being creative when they give second chances. This could mean an opportunity

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Why Going Home For School Breaks is Like a HS Reunion You Don’t Want To Have

You might realize that you whenever you go home for break – winter, summer or spring – you always seem to run into people you went to high school with. Whether you come from a small town or a big city chances are you still end up seeing someone you know. For some people that may be a great thing, but for others it’s something we could easily live without. This article is dedicated to the latter. 10. The gossip never stopped. People always claim that gossip stays in high school, but they were extremely wrong. It’s like every time you come home you get filled in on all the latest gossip, but you could honestly care less. 9. People make a game out of seeing who’s doing better in life. When people see you for the first time after high school it’s like all of a sudden they care about what you’re doing with your life.

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20 Types of College Friends Described By Movies and TV Shows

When people think of groups hanging out at school a lot of the time we think of cliques – the jocks, the cheerleaders, the nerds, the troublemakers, the band geeks, etc. But have you ever thought of those groups in terms of the friendships you may see in movies or TV shows? Sometimes you may find yourself watching a movie or a TV show and thinking wow, that’s exactly how me and my friends are. If you haven’t, even if you have, then here’s a list of 20 TV shows and movies that might describe your friendships. 20. The Skins Friends Whether it’s a Tuesday or a Friday, these friends are always partying together. 19. The Pretty Little Liars Friends This group of friends seems to have bad luck follow them no matter where they go. 18. The Friends Friends This is the group of friends that all friends aspire to be. They have fun no matter where they go and they always work through their

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12 Things To Stop Apologizing For

“I’m sorry.” It’s one simple phrase and yet it holds so much meaning. So why do people throw it around so often? We seem to say I’m sorry for so many things and a lot of times it’s out of habit. While it is an appropriate thing to say in certain situations we shouldn’t just throw it around to the point where it loses all of its meaning,  so here are 15 things you should stop apologizing for. 12. Crying. Crying is a natural thing that all people do. You may cry in random situations and you may cry when other people think it isn’t necessary, but you still have nothing to apologize for. Emotions are a tricky thing and sometimes you may find yourself crying a reason you absolutely cannot locate – but that’s okay! Who cares if you’re crying because your favorite fictional character died? Who cares if you’re crying because

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10 Things You Should Stop Wasting Your Meal Points On

There comes a time every semester when we start to run low on our meal points, but for some reason we can’t bring ourselves to stop wasting money on things we know that we don’t really need. Eventually we end up with no money at all and we immediately start to regret our poor finance skills, but at the time it didn’t really matter. All that mattered was how much you wanted that chocolate bar or that bag of chips. If you’re one of those people then you should definitely stop wasting your meal points on these ten things. 10. Late night meals If you’re like me then you probably end up getting food in the middle of the night because your friends invite you to get food with them. You say you’re not hungry but when you actually walk into the building you find yourself buying food whether it’s a full meal or a simple brownie sundae.