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For financially strapped students trying to cover their mounting expenses to attend college, like working and the time needed for both commuting to their jobs and school, poor academic performance is often the end result of such efforts.Such commitments and the sacrifice they demand have created quite the unfortunate predicament many students find themselves in. In fact, the negative toll on their grades often leads to students being stripped of their financial aid, blocked from registering for …

As the threat of the pandemic continues, college students across the country are more concerned than ever about their physical and mental health.Because of the highly contagious omicron variant, more than half of college students say they’re under more stress and anxiety than ever before. In fact, nearly 9 out of 10 declared a mental health crisis on their college campuses. That’s an overwhelming majority of registered students who attend their classes in-person, according to a study recently pu …

It’s often considered the biggest counter-productive distraction for young people ever created. A proverbial thorn in the side of parents since the very day they went against their morals and gave their children a way out of reality.Video games. Two words that make even the strongest of non-helicopter parents cringe in horror. It became such a nuisance in China that children there are now banned from playing them at all during the school week AND are only allotted 1 hour of playing time on Frida …

In today’s hyper-competitive learning environment, it never hurts to be ahead of the game when it comes to academics. After all, no matter how much you think you know, or have learned, there is always the potential to absorb more. Perhaps the best way to sum this up is a quote from Geeta Iyengar:Knowledge has a beginning, but no end.A world-renowned yoga Instructor, Iyengar emphasized elevating one’s intellectual focus as a means of personal fulfillment in helping her students' lives flourish. E …

When it comes to education, the COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged schools, it’s students, teachers and the communities they support. Colleges and universities were especially crippled due to their dependency on the number of students enrolled, and their monetary influence on campus. Sure, every higher education institution offers online classes in this day and age. But it's the on-campus presence, or lack thereof, that has a huge impact on the financial stability of these colleges and universities. …