Here’s another installment of A Different Kind of Freshman 15. These are sites and resources that I think college students might find interesting.
- http://collegelife.about.com/ About.com is a great site for finding content aggregated around specific subjects. This one has a blog, some forums, and a lot of useful articles and links. You can also follow the “College Life Guide” on Twitter.
- RA Linebacker: A humorous video that will probably make you think your RA is really low-key, in comparison to this guy.
- Zen College Life aspires “to enrich the college experience through achieving a higher level of consciousness, productivity and organization, to understand health and fitness, and to move through college with a goal oriented mindset.”
- 10 Questions to Ask the First Week of Classes from U.S. News and World Report.
- College Quotes on ThinkExist.com
- Great Travel Deals for the College-Bound. This article offers some good information on programs to save money while traveling in college.
- Kick Start Your Study Habits on SurvivingCollege.com
- 10 Life-Changing Things You Never Thought to Do in College on NextStudent.com
- College Life Tips offers simple tips geared toward the college audience.
- DormDelicious provides advice and tips on organizing and decorating student rooms.
- Tips for making friends your freshman year on Helium.com
- eZinearticles.com has a great article on why students should get to know the secretary of their academic department.
- Love to Know has an interesting article on college parties. Pretty basic information including a few thoughts on safety.
- Security on Campus is an influential non-profit that lobbies for better safety and security measures and reporting of crimes on campus.
- Women’s Self-Defense Instructions Online is an interesting site with some college crime statistics and some information and ideas for self-defense.
If you know of great sites that might interest college students in making the most out of their time in college, please e-mail me at sean@higheredlifecoach.com
In the next post, we’ll continue our exploration of Chickering’s 7 Vectors of Development.
Sean Cook has 15 years of experience working in Higher Education, as a Student Affairs Professional. He is a Certified Life and Career Coach through the Life Purpose Institute, a program accredited by the International Coach Federation. Sean also writes about career issues in higher education for our companion site, HigherEdCareerCoach.com and is a periodic contributor to the Student Affairs Collaborative Blog.
