Here’s another installment of A Different Kind of Freshman 15. These are sites and resources that I think college students might find interesting.

1. 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.
2. RA Linebacker: A humorous video that will probably make you think your RA is really low-key, in comparison to this guy.
3. 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.”
4. 10 Questions to Ask the First Week of Classes from U.S. News and World Report.
5. College Quotes on ThinkExist.com
6. Great Travel Deals for the College-Bound. This article offers some good information on programs to save money while traveling in college.
7. Kick Start Your Study Habits on SurvivingCollege.com
8. 10 Life-Changing Things You Never Thought to Do in College on NextStudent.com
9. College Life Tips offers simple tips geared toward the college audience.
10. DormDelicious provides advice and tips on organizing and decorating student rooms.
11. Tips for making friends your freshman year on Helium.com
12. eZinearticles.com has a great article on why students should get to know the secretary of their academic department.
13. Love to Know has an interesting article on college parties. Pretty basic information including a few thoughts on safety.
14. Security on Campus is an influential non-profit that lobbies for better safety and security measures and reporting of crimes on campus.
15. 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.

Related posts:

1. A Different Kind of Freshman 15
2. Chickering’s 7 Vectors of Development
3. Student Issues Explorer: What will determine your happiness in college?

Everyone, of course, has heard to the dreaded “freshman fifteen,” and so it’ s not unusual to interact with people in college who struggled with their weight, and looked forward to talking about something else. This is another type of freshman fifteen: 15 sites that offer advice and resources for college students

1. College Tips on CollegeTips.com

2. 12 money-management tips for college students from Bankrate.com

3. Can Virginity Survive College? on KissMeGoodNight.com

4. College Dorm Life on Collegeview.com

5. College Life Advice on Thrifty Fun.

6. Going to College on Kidshealth.com

7. College Freshman Tips on College-Freshmen.com

8. Ask Metafilter “Advice for College Freshmen.”

9. Making the Most of College (Book by Richard Light.)

10. College Extracurricular Activities from StateUniversity.com

12. Do what it takes to be successful in college by mappingyourfuture.org

13. College Success Super Summit for students, parents and educators

14. College Puzzle from Standford University

15. College Success Kentucky is a site put together by the State of Kentucky.

My hope  is that you will find something useful among these sites, to help you set goals for your first year in college. Please contact me at sean@higheredlifecoach.com or hghredlifecoach on Twitter!

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