Figuring Out FAFSA

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...

The Warrior Way: McKel Heebink

Meet McKel Heebink, a Winona State Warrior for whom community service is a way of life. In fact, after our interview, she was headed home to help at a fundraiser founded by her aunt and her mother to provide care packages for families whose newborn infants need to be...

Good Grief, I’m Graduating!

I have waited for this day for four long years. The day I could fill out the graduation application because this is my final semester. In just a few months I will be saying sayonara to the student status that I’ve held for the last two decades (Wow, that’s a long...

Coding– What is it Good For?

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...

4 Secrets to College Success

  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...

Graduation: A Bittersweet Realization

This weekend wraps up the last of the high school graduations and I just want to say congratulations to all you 2014 graduates. Graduation is an achievement to be proud of and it adds a final push to the behind the momentum building up as you eagerly look forward to...

The Best Laid Plans

I have always been a planner. I know what I want and I take the steps to get it. Time-management is my forte. I plan my weekends to maximize studying, I plan my next semester’s classes over a month in advance of the registration window, I plan my long-term...