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In Defense of Food Stamps

Image Source Gawker recently featured a post advocating food stamps for the underemployed. And, since it's Gawker, the post also makes fun of NYU's student-run news blog NYU Local, whose authors may have been a littl…
Officially Being a Poor College Student Sucks

Image Source At the end of summer I had everything worked out so that my job with Starbucks would transfer to school with me. I get here, and I'm told, "All we have to do is talk to your old manager, have a behavioral i…
College Cuts Delay Graduation

Image Source The Associated Press published a rather sobering article about how college budget cuts are making it harder for students to graduate. In addition to raising tuitions, many schools have been forced to la…
Harvard Students Go Without... Cookies

Image Source A recent article in The New York Times revealed that even Harvard—the planet's wealthiest university—is not immune to the recession. The school has had to make all sorts of cutbacks, from the comical (n…
Submit to Dollarish!

Image Source Whether you're bubbling over about the soda tax, bonkers for bullet trains, or simply passionate about free food, Dollarish wants to hear from you! Submit your posts for our front page, or help out our…
Colleges Go Green With Less Green

Image Source The Sustainable Endowments Institute just launched GreenReportCard.org, an online representation of the group's annual ranking of universities and colleges by sustainability. Overall, the schools earned…
Ithaca: A Gorges Mess

Image Source I've heard about free rides, but this is ridiculous. Ithaca College is giving 31 students up to $10,000 to defer their acceptances by one year, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. Ithaca misj…
All Grown Up: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Sell My Car

Image Source A couple of years ago my father suggested, to my infinite horror, that we demote my car insurance policy to that of a so-called "occasional driver." (Definitions for this term vary per state and per prov…
College: Should I? And if so, where should I?

Image Source I have mixed feelings about college. This is my first semester back after taking a year off to "find myself" (or whatever), and thus far I've been employing the head down, power through method of academi…
Learning-by-Doing (IT Students, Take Note)

Image Source I've always been a proponent of learning-by-doing—developing your career skills in the workplace (or internship-place) rather than remotely in a classroom. Real world experience is invaluable when it com…