When it comes to college, there is a huge difference from when you were in high school. You are on your own. Yes you can go home as you please, but the key to adulting is trying to stay on your own as much as possible. When it comes to adulting, there are three things Read More…
Category: Unit 2
Living Off-Campus is a Breeze with these 3 things
A quick walk around campus may have you feeling trapped with limited housing options. Expensive apartment complexes, student-run co-ops, dilapidated houses with “for rent” signs outside– all maybe less than ideal, all seemingly under threat of being snatched up before you can follow through with a lease. Take a deep breath! The city of Madison Read More…
The Ultimate Adulting Life Hack
The ultimate adulting life hack is… drum roll please…. STICKY NOTES! Sticky notes are the sole reason I am able to remember anything in college. From homework to intramural sports to work, balancing everything in college can be a real challenge. If you’re like me, you’re somewhat scatterbrained, and keeping track of everything you have Read More…
WARNING: BRING BOOTS.
I grew up in a small town in, Minnesota. As senior year of high school winded down, my friends and I were trying to decide where we were going to head for the next four years of our lives. While most of my friends ended up heading down south to escape the cold, I headed Read More…
What You Need For Doing Laundry Like An Adult
Laundry is something you’ll need to master as an adult, and what better time to do that than during your college years at UW Madison? Freshman year is the best time to learn how to keep your laundry as organized and clean as possible, especially when you live in the dorms. Here are the tips Read More…
How to Manage Your Money like an “Adult”
Being an incoming college freshman can be tough, especially with all the changes getting thrown in your face. You don’t have your parents around you all the time to make you dinner or to take you out for lunch. So, what do you do? Whether you are paying for your own college education or not, Read More…
How To Get Your Apartment Ready For Your Parent’s First Visit
Parents can be very uptight. At least in my own experience, my parents are so OCD that they wouldn’t approve of my living space if it weren’t clean. Being a college student, it can be hard to keep your space clean with no one telling you what to do, how often to clean, or what Read More…
Head in the Clouds? ATM 100 is Perfect for You!
I’m going to be honest with you guys- really not a science girl. The most interested I’ve ever been in science was watching Bill Nye in fifth grade- and that’s not an exaggeration. However, 3 credit ATM 100 with Professor Martin was one of the most interesting classes I’ve taken at UW-Madison. 3 times a Read More…
The Importance of Building A Relationship- Of Any Kind, With Com Arts 272
Each week, our TA, Abigal Escatel, would introduce and explain new topics and projects in ten-person classes, as opposed to the hundred-something person lectures we had the day after, each week. Although the assignments were, assignments, each project ultimately left students with a greater sense of one another, and truly, how to make the world Read More…
It’s Just Common Cents
For lots of people, they have been blessed with a parent doing their laundry for their whole life. It would just magically appear folded in your closet, and this is perhaps the biggest adjustment when arriving at college. Not only do we not know how to do laundry, but we put off what seems like Read More…