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There's been a lot of talk lately about possibly changing the drinking age from 21 to 18. The conversation has been there since the 80's when the current age limit was widely adopted, but recent lobbying by a group of U.S. college presidents for dropping the limit has opened up the debate once again. On one side there are the organizations, most notably MADD, which will fight to the death before allowing drinking law reform. They will argue about the dramatic reduction in teen driving deaths sin… Continue

So I was hearing the other day that banks are starting to refuse giving loans to students going to community colleges (and other small colleges). Since it's strange to see a bank turning down any chance to make a profit I had to wonder to myself, why is this happening? Well I came across this article in the NY Times which explains "By splitting out community colleges and less-selective four-year institutio… Continue

Any student knows the struggles of completing a paper the night before the deadline. Sure, we know the final product is going to suffer, but we go ahead and put off any actual writing until ab machine commercials are the only thing left on TV. And so you're stuck, one in the morning, half a paragraph written, and experiencing mild hallucinations from the multiple 5-hour-energy shots you thought would make it easy. You're screwed right? Yeah, probably, but if you had started a little earlier you… Continue