Archives
For your convenience, the archives are organized by category below, but you can also see all entries by date here.
Academics, Studying, and Productivity
- How to Stay Awake During Class
- How to Stay Awake & Alert While Studying (without Coffee!)
- Ridiculously Easy Ways to Kick Distractions (for Productive Study Time!)
- I Slept Through a College Test–Now What Should I Do?
- Why and When You Should Drop a Class in College
- Final Exam Survival Tips
- Exam Tips: Your Final Exam Prep List
- Three Easy-Peasy First Exam of the Year Tips
- Note-Taking Tips Part 1: Keeping Your Notes Organized
- Note-Taking Tips Part 2: What to Write
- For Love or Money: How to Choose a College Major
- Do I Need to Have a Minor or a Double Major?
- Study Tips: Memory Tricks to Remember What You Study
- Study Tips: How Future Doctors Study
- Kick Start Your Study Habits
- Smart Tips for Scheduling Your College Classes
- 5 Reasons Why Office Hours are Your New Best Friend
- How to Build Your Semester Study Calendar
- 5 Tips to Help You Get Productive
- How to Miss a Day Without Killing Your Grades
- Productivity: Managing Your Time with RescueTime
- 5 Productivity (or Social Life) Boosting Gmail Features
- Make More Time: How to Study While You Work Out
- Kick Start Your Study Habits
- 3 Tips to Help You Graduate Early (or at Least On Time!)
- Write a Better Essay: Do You Know These Three “Unspoken Rules”?
Budget & Finances
- How To: Freelance for Extra Cash
- Smart Money Advice for New High School & College Grads
- How to Set Your First Budget
- Tips on Choosing (and Using) a College Credit Card
- 50 Ways to Save Money in College
- 10 Secrets to Getting the Best Deal on a New Car
- What is a Credit Score (and Why Should You Care?)
- 3 Easy Ways to Build Your Credit Score
- Holiday Gift-Giving on a College Budget
- Your First Apartment: How Much Will the First Month Cost?
- Summer Wise: Save and Spend
- Cheap Ideas for Summer Vacation
Computers, Websites, & Tech
- 5 Tech Freebies I Couldn’t Live Without
- My Top 5: Facebook Privacy Settings
- 5 More Awesome Facebook Features
- 10 Software Freebies Every College Student Should Know About
- OEDB’s 100 Ways Your iPod Can Help You Learn
- Where to Watch Free Full TV Episodes Online
- Time Saving Keyboard Shortcuts
- 5 Easy Ways to Go Paperless
Discounts, Deals & Freebies
- How to Get Free Food in College
- Finding Free, Legal Music & Video Downloads and More
- Where to Watch Free Full TV Episodes Online
- 10 Software Freebies Every College Student Should Know About
- Don’t Spend, Swap: Trade Books & DVDs for the Price of Postage
- Cheap Chic: Clothes You Can Love AND Afford
Dating
- 5 Reasons Why its Oh-So-Good to be Single
- Relationships: From High School to College
- Fifteen Fun, Fabulous, Cheap Date Ideas
- Five Cheap or Free Date Ideas for Snow Days
- Ten Cheap Date Ideas for Fall
- Five College Relationship Mistakes You Might Be Making
- How to Deal with Your First Big Breakup
DIY
- Love, Love, Love: A DIY Valentine’s Day
- Inexpensive DIY Gift Roundup #1: For the Ladies on Your List!
- Inexpensive DIY Gift Roundup #2: Gifts for Guys
- Inexpensive DIY Gift Roundup #3: Gifts for Kids
- Inexpensive DIY Gift Roundup #4: Gifts for Teens & Twenty-somethings
- DIY Holiday Gift Roundup: Gifts for Teen and College Girls
- DIY Gifts for Guys, Dudes, and Dads
- DIY Holiday Gifts for Kids
- Last-Minute ‘DIY Gifts for Mom’ Mother’s Day Roundup!
- DIY Gifts for Moms, Aunties, and Grandmas
- DIY Roundup: Halloween Costumes
- DIY Halloween Costume + Accessory Roundup
- DIY Father’s Day Gift Roundup
Dorm Rooms & Apartments
- What to Pack in Your “First Night In the Dorms” Bag
- 25 Things You Need to Know About Living in the Dorms
- College Dorm Decor on the Cheap
- Drab to Fab: Dorm Decor Basics
- Dorm DIY: Hip, Fab Dorm Decor
- Easy Ways to Decorate Your Dorm Room
- Your First Apartment: Things You Should Remember but Probably Won’t
- Your First Place: Move-In Day Necessities
- Cheap + Chic for College: Decorating With Freebies
- Dorm Zen: Grow a (Teeny) Garden
- Weekend Project(s): Spring Clean Your Dorm Room
- Dorm Zen: Have a (Teeny) Pet
- Dorm Zen: Container Gardening
- Cheap, Amazing Dorm DIY
- Reader Dorm Design: Melissa’s Room
Food & Recipes
- Fast Food: Easy Snacks + Meals for College
- Farmer’s Markets = Cheap, Fresh Food!
- No More Cafeteria Food: Mix It Up With Fun Recipe Sites
- Cheap & Easy College Recipes: Pizza!
- Cheap & Easy College Recipes: The $10 Waffle Party
- Cheap & Easy College Recipes: Toaster Oven Desserts
- Cheap & Easy College Recipes: Honey Glazed Chicken Stir Fry
- Cheap & Easy College Recipes: Cranberry Apple Chicken
- Cheap & Easy College Recipes: Butternut Squash Soup
- Cheap & Easy College Recipes: Yummy Morning Granola
- Fast, Easy Meals & Snacks on a College Budget
- Fast, Easy, Cheap: Breakfast Recipes for College
- More College Cooking on the Cheap: Chefs & Soups
- How to Get Free Food in College
- The College Students Guide to Saving Cash on Food Costs
- Summer Wise: Cooking Prep
Go Green
Grad School & Med School
- Preparing for Med-School Early: a Pre-Med Student’s Guide
- Pre-Med Basics: Getting Started with the MCAT
- Pre-med Basics: MCAT Study Tools
- Med School Prep: Considering Military Scholarships
- Med School Prep: Try, Try Again
- How to Get Stellar Letters of Recommendation
Health
- Stay Healthy This School Year (Really)
- My Roommate is Sick, Now What?
- What to Do if You’re Sick in College
- How to Fall Asleep when You’re Stressed
- Tests and Tragedy: Coping with College when Trouble Hits at Home
- Review: 101 Health and Wellness Tips for College Students
- Keeping Yourself Safe (because Moms and Grandmas Want You To)
- Get Fit: Dorm Room Workouts
- Goal Time: Making Your “I’m Going to Work Out!” Goal Stick
- Make a Health Routine
Homesickness
- 5 Ways for Any Personality to Give Homesickness the Old One-Two!
- Three Ways to Beat Homesickness
- Three MORE Ideas to Help You Beat College Homesickness
- 5 Ways to Kick the College Homesickness Bug
- Bump the Post-Break Blues
Jobs & Working
- How to Apply for Summer Jobs
- Should You Get a Job in College?
- How to Write a Basic, Easy Resume
- Your Résumé-Writing Questions Answered
- Cash In: How to Make Money Over Winter Break
- Bosses Facebook, Too: Keeping Your Online Persona Employable
- How to Apply for Summer Jobs
Laundry
Life 101
- Prioritizing & Balance: 3 Ways to Begin
- Prioritizing & Balance: Your Personal Mission Statement
- Prioritizing & Balance: Defining Core Values
- Define Yourself: Your Style
- You Can Do It!: The 25/25 List
- 5 Life Lessons for College, Courtesy of Ferris Beuller
- You Can Do It!: Setting Goals You Can Achieve
- Your Ultimate College How-To Guide (Link Roundup)
- Finally Be Who You Want to Be
- Dealing With a Natural Disaster or Emergency in College
- Five College New Years Resolutions (That Don’t Involve the Gym!)
Paying for College
- How to Find College Scholarships You Could Actually Win
- Make a Buck: Video Contests for College Students
- What’s the Difference Between Student Loan Types?
- Need Money for College? File the FAFSA!
- It’s FAFSA Time Again
- Finally, Affordable Help with How to Fill Out the FAFSA: My FAFSA Assistant!
- My Top Five: The Pay for College Blog
- What’s Hot at the Pay for College Blog
Roommates
- Setting Roommate “Ground Rules”
- How to Handle Roommate Problems
- What NOT to Do About Roommate Problems
- When and How to Change College Roommates
Social Life, Family, & Fun
- Not Your Average Dinner Party
- The Best Ways to Cope With Embarrassing Moments
- My Faves: Online Brain Breaks
- Thoughts on Video Games from a Future Doctor
- Brain Break: Create a Listography
- Brain Break: Two Ways to Have Almost-Free Fun With Books
- Brain Break: How to Put a Stapler in Jello
- Party Time: Fun & Easy Get Togethers for Guys and Gals
- Your Mom Reads Your Blog: Unraveling the College-Parent Mystery
- How to Enjoy Obligitory Family Time
- Social Life: The New You in a New Place
- 3 Easy (FUN!) Ways to Meet New People in College
- Meeting New People in College
- Moving Back Home for Summer
- Spend Your Time Wisely: Volunteer Ideas for College
- The College Student’s Guide to Going Home for the Holidays
- I Love the Fair (And Maybe You Will, Too)
- PhotoDoc: Fun Ways to Document Your Summer
Summer
- Cheap Ideas for Summer Vacation
- 5 Ways to Stay Productive This Summer
- Summer Fun: Backyard Movie Theater
- Summer Wise: Hometown (or College Town) Touristing
- Summer Wise: Get a Hobby!
- Summer Wise: Get in Gear Early
- How to Apply for Summer Jobs
- Gearing Up for Summer at Home
- 5 Ways to Get in Good With Your Parents This Summer
What to Expect
- What to Know About Your First Week(s) of College, Part I
- What to Know About Your First Week(s) of College, Part II
- What to Expect Your First Week of College
- What Happens at College Freshman Orientation?
- What to Expect from College Professors
- What to Know about the First Week (or so…)
- What to Expect from College Classes
- Ten Useful Things to Add to Your ‘Take to College’ List
- College: An Introduction
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4 Comments Add your own
1. Surviving College Life &r&hellip | August 8th, 2008 at 8:51 am
[...] Archives [...]
2. Sanaya | September 6th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Thanks so much for this website! I’m an incoming freshman at Revelle at UCSD and these tips are so helpful!
3. Hail the Conquering Gradu&hellip | September 14th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
[...] Surviving College Life Surviving College Life is a really cool blog that’s incredibly comprehensive. Not only will it be helpful as you prepare to arrive on campus. This will be something you’ll find useful throughout your college years as you move from dorms to apartments, friendships to romances, and from major to major. The above link is a list of all the posts divided by topic. So whether you’re looking for time management tips, study aids, roommate advice, financial aid resources, or fitness facts, Surviving College Life can help give you a heads up and point you in a good direction. [...]
4. aish | December 8th, 2009 at 9:54 am
great site………im going to study in australia next year starting feb……..jus wonder if the rules here apply there too.
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