We all make choices in life that define who we are.

We choose between some­thing as sim­ple as whether to eat Lucky Charms or Cheerios for break­fast, to more com­pli­cated choices such as what type of vehi­cle to buy. Each choice we make has some impact on our lives; be it large or small. In many instances, our choices also have an effect on the peo­ple around us and can even affect peo­ple we do not know. (more…)

Rent or bor­row used text­books– Besides room and board, text­books are a major col­lege expense that hits most stu­dents’ pock­ets hard. Buying brand new text­books each semes­ter can cost hun­dreds of dol­lars and become finan­cially drain­ing by the end of the year. Websites such as chegg​.com and bookrenter​.com give stu­dents an afford­able alter­na­tive to help avoid high costs in col­lege bookstores.

Research your major– At some point, most col­lege stu­dents decide to change their major. This often results in hav­ing to take more courses and ulti­mately means more years spent pay­ing tuition. Before choos­ing a major, research its future career poten­tial. Is this some­thing you could see your­self doing ten years from now? Asking this could save you from pay­ing off long-term col­lege loans. (more…)

Alexander, a sopho­more for­ward for the Bulldogs, was a non-drafted invi­tee to the Washington Capitals sum­mer devel­op­men­tal camp. While there, he raised expec­ta­tions for his sopho­more sea­son after being named to the all-camp team by Capitals head coach Bruce Boudreau. (more…)

This sum­mer I ran into a prob­lem that many peo­ple have been strug­gling with more and more.

Employers aren’t accept­ing peo­ple off the street like many appli­cants hope. Employers requir­ing expe­ri­ence for jobs expect the can­di­date to have expe­ri­ence for the job before being hired. It’s a Catch-22; with­out expe­ri­ence you can’t get a job, and you can’t get expe­ri­ence with­out a job. So how does a per­son get expe­ri­ence for a job if the employ­ers will not hire any­one in the first place? (more…)

A 2.75 per­cent con­ve­nience fee will now be charged on any credit card pay­ment made toward a con­sol­i­dated stu­dent account.

Business Operations Systems Manager, Erin Diehm, said the fee was approved by President Eisler and took effect on July 1. Ferris has con­tracted with Touchnet PayPath, a third-party com­pany, to pro­vide pro­cess­ing ser­vices for the con­sol­i­dated stu­dent accounts. Diehm said Ferris could not con­tinue to absorb pro­cess­ing costs due to bud­get con­straints, (more…)

The start of a new semes­ter means a fresh start and a new adventure.

With the new begin­ning comes the stress of mov­ing in, buy­ing books, print­ing sched­ules, find­ing build­ings, and adjust­ing to life in a dif­fer­ent place. It is not nec­es­sar­ily an easy adjust­ment to make and for some peo­ple it’s flat out ter­ri­ble. (more…)

As the movie ‘Armageddon’ played recently on my TV. dur­ing a dreary, over­cast day, I came to a realization.

That real­iza­tion being, if God-forbid, any­thing even remotely close to the story line hap­pened in real life, we as a peo­ple, are done for. The human race will be adios, toast, stick a fork in us because this goose is cooked. (more…)

The team returns 13 play­ers from the 2009 squad, which earned a NCAA Tournament appear­ance for the 15th time in school his­tory. While the team has many play­ers return­ing from last year’s team, only three were starters. Fifteenth-year head coach Tia Brandel-Wilhelm hopes last year’s suc­cess will help the new starters tran­si­tion into their roles as they know not only what is to be expected of them, but of the team. (more…)

A new fed­eral law of the Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA) requires text­book pub­lish­ers to give detailed infor­ma­tion in writ­ing to fac­ulty choos­ing course material.

Taking affect July 1, the law states text­book pub­lish­ers must pro­vide a descrip­tion of con­tent changes, copy­right dates of the three pre­vi­ous edi­tions and the price of the text­book. (more…)

After last season’s 12–8 over­all record, the Bulldog women’s ten­nis team hopes for another suc­cess­ful sea­son in 2010–2011.

With the loss of co-captain Daniela Dimas from last sea­son, the team hopes that new team­mate Alina Stanila will step up and help the team con­tinue its win­ning ways. Head coach Alex Palladino hopes Stanila, a trans­fer stu­dent from Romania, will come in and bol­ster the team’s chances for a con­fer­ence cham­pi­onship. (more…)