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College students embark on a new life after graduating high school. Gone are the days of teachers calling home if you skip class, or pulling you aside when you don’t complete assignments. In college you are expected to go to class and complete your homework, and if you don’t, you won’t pass your courses. So, [...]

Though my mother had never lived a day in a dorm, she provided me with some very good tips to get through my dorm days. These are things she learned while traveling throughout her life and those hotels she stayed in were not that different from a dorm room.

Hand wash [...]

Three years ago my mother was diagnosed with the neurological disorder Multiple Sclerosis and as a family we were devastated. No one in our family had ever had this disease so we knew little to nothing about it. I live in Tennessee and my mother lives in South Texas so it was extremely hard to [...]

In today’s economy many companies are looking for top notch sales professionals with a good amount of experience. This could potentially make it very difficult for those who are seeking their very first sales job after graduating from college since you will have little to no experience; or do you? One of the things you [...]

I recently visited John W. McDougal Company in Nashville, TN doing some research on steel fabrication for a course project and found this company to be a great resource for many types of architectural and industrial projects. I had no idea what it takes to not only produce but to develop the technologies and systems [...]

These days with the economy still reeling of a total and complete lack of consumer confidence, employment is still teetering on the edge of the abyss.  With all our jobs at stake, it is always a good idea to keep abreast of career information.  The best strategy is to dig your well before you need [...]

Social media is a wonderful thing for the alienated early 21st century first world inhabitant. Alienation is the word of the day with our overstimulation of consumer items that are force-fed into a vapid and flat revenue driven lifestyle that allows for the pursuit of happiness solely through the accumulation of goods and services. We [...]

I recently asked a Realtor friend of mine if she knew someone who could help me decide if now was the time to buy a house or not and she put me in touch with a mortgage lender that she not only uses but trusts. I had the pleasure of discussing my situation with him [...]

Until you know someone that has Multiple Sclerosis, also known as MS, you really don’t ever think about it or what it does to people, families and communities. But once you either have a family member or friend who has MS then it becomes all too clear to you that you must get involved and [...]

Though most of us will be with family and friends this Thanksgiving there are those in colleges all over the US that either have no place to go, can’t afford the trip home or are from another country and don’t really know the meaning of the holiday. It is very important to reach out to [...]