by Elizabeth Meinders | Sep 19, 2018 | Admissions Blog, Manage Money
I’m going to get a piece of common knowledge out of the way. College costs a lot of money—and people don’t usually have a spare $18K lying around the house. Maybe you’re lucky enough not to need any financial aid, but you’re probably more like me and the other 94% of...
by Elizabeth Meinders | Nov 14, 2014 | Admissions Blog
You don’t see it, but this blog is built with computer code. So is Facebook and Hulu and D2L. Every day you are using hypertext markup language (HTML) and cascading style sheets (CSS) but do you have any idea how they work? Steve Jobs once said that “I think everybody...
by Elizabeth Meinders | Sep 19, 2014 | Admissions Blog
College classes are hard. They demand that you read more, write more, hold more information in your head and confront more new ideas than you had to in high school. As you get closer and closer to heading off to college yourself, this fact is probably creeping...
by Elizabeth Meinders | Aug 5, 2014 | Admissions Blog
You are standing in front of your bedroom closet, then you turn to look at your desk covered in papers and knickknacks and the walls hung with photos and posters before glancing across the floor that is strewn with random objects you had forgotten you even owned but...
by Elizabeth Meinders | Jul 30, 2014 | Admissions Blog
It seems like the beginning of fall semester is still so far away, but you should start looking for your textbooks now so you’ll be prepared for the first day of class. Here’s how to get started: 1) Find out what books you need. Well, this is an obvious first step but...
