Forbes’ Most Lucrative College Majors

July 15, 2008 - 5:30 pm , By COED Staff

The field of psychoanalysis has gotten the Hollywood treatment over the past decade, being featured on a hit TV show, The Sopranos, and two movies starring Billy Crystal and Robert De Niro, Analyze This and Analyze That.

In the same period, the number of college students earning psychology degrees has jumped 22%; the Princeton Review pegs it as the second most popular major today. No doubt students have visions of striking it rich, listening to patients’ problems while collecting $100-an-hour fees.

The reality is that few psychology majors move on to graduate school–and the career path for the rest of the group: not so rich.

See The Most Lucrative College Majors As Listed By Forbes

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20 Easy Ways to Raise Your Student GPA in College

A high GPA is important if you want to get a good job out of college or pursue higher education opportunities. Here are 20 easy ways to raise your student GPA before it’s too late. [EDU Choices]

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20 Easy Campus Life Health Tips

A college education isn’t necessarily good for your health. Between stress, deadlines, easy access to junk food, and lots of alcohol, students don’t always take care of themselves. For a healthier lifestyle, here are some simple tips to incorporate into your everyday life on campus. Don’t worry—you don’t have to do all of these—but by mixing some of these ideas into your routine, you’ll improve your health little by little. [EDU In Review]

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Is Weed Bad For You? CU Students Don’t Think So

March 10, 2008 - 3:15 pm , By Editor

Pot smoking could be a synonym for Boulder. CU ranks No. 15 on the Princeton Review’s list of colleges with the highest use of pot among students. But when asked whether smoking pot is bad for them or not, there appears to be no easy answer.The typical student will probably give one of two responses: either it’s really not that bad at all, or it only affects certain people. [The Campus Press]

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Breaking Away From The Typical Spring Break

It’s a bad hangover waiting to happen. Traveling over 500 miles to arrive at a crowded hotel only to face the impossible task of finding open lounge chairs and dealing with loud, rowdy and belligerent fellow partiers. Welcome to spring break as defined by the MTV generation.

“Some college students feel they face a certain amount of pressure to live up to the spring break trips they see on TV. But in reality, the ‘Cancun-like’ vacations aren’t for everyone,” Stephanie Tershakovec, a senior, said.
[The Hurricane Online]

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An iPhone To Go With Your Degree

How would you like a new iPhone with your college acceptance letter?

“Well, I definitely wouldn’t say no,” said CAS freshman Jenna Miller.

Some college students will be enjoying that perk as part of Apple’s new “iPhone University” initiative, which aims to provide Apple products, especially iPhones and iPods, to all college students.

So far, two universities - Abilene Christian and Oklahoma Christian - have signed up to participate in this program, but pilot programs at Harvard, MIT, Stanford and Yale have been underway for six months. [NYU News]

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Blog To Feature Local NYU News

Cody Brown thinks that NYU students need to get on the same page - webpage, that is.

In the words of Brown’s new 24-hour news website, NYU Local, there is “no quad, no Division 1 basketball, no green grass pavilion [and] no identifiable mascot.” With its Gawker-like appeal, NYU Local hopes to draw the university’s unique campus together.

Brown, a Tisch sophomore majoring in film and minoring in journalism, said he started NYU Local with the hopes of becoming “the popular publication on campus,” providing students with news specific to NYU. [NYU News]

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NCAA Docks Ohio State One Scholarship for Academic Failings

The NCAA has imposed a sanction of one full scholarship on the Ohio State men’s basketball team for failing to meet the Academic Progress Rate standard, faculty athletics representative John Bruno said. The university is petitioning to overturn the decision.

Bruno said OSU has a two-year time frame to petition the NCAA to keep the scholarship. Bruno did not mention when the reduced scholarship penalty would go into effect. [UWIRE]

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Perception Versus Truth

September 5, 2007 - 11:00 am , By Editor
Perception Reality
I am not interested in the Greek system. It’s just set up to give upperclassmen the chance to haze freshmen. When I got to school, I wanted to pledge so badly because I saw how much fun the frats and sororities were having. Still, that doesn’t change the fact that they do haze freshmen.
In high school, I wouldn’t study for more than an hour for anything and I’d wait until the night before to start. I figured I’d have to study maybe two hours or so more than that in college. I found out I was entirely wrong after I took my first round of exams [Editor's note: For most college classes, your entire grade depends on one or two exams]. I ended up having to study about six or seven hours to get decent grades.
With the school being right on the beach, I knew I would probably spend more time there than I would studying. And I knew I was going to party a lot when I came to a big school. I go to the beach almost every day and spend more time surfing than I do studying. We party at least three times a week. There is always somebody who has time to hang out, no matter what day of the week it is.
Hooking up with random guys is going to be fabulous because you will probably never see them again, so you get to avoid awkwardness! I found that, somehow, you always seem to run into them, even though your campus is huge and you had never crossed paths before.
Princeton Review gave Oregon the No. 1 spot in the ‘Dorms Like Dungeons’ category. My hall was designed by a prison architect. I was expecting the situation to be as miserable as possible. This actually works out really well because no one wants to sit in their room. When the weather is nice, Oregon kids can be seen all over hiking, cliff-jumping and hanging out at the many surrounding lakes.
EARTHLINGS, PREPARE TO MEET YOUR DEMISE! YOUR PUNY WEAPONS ARE NO MATCH FOR SOPHISTICATED WEAPONRY. PREPARE THE ASAULT, MY LEGIONS! WE MUST REPLENISH! Art history was a bad idea. The class was less about interpretation and more about historical influences. I found myself a little bored.
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