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The cost of attending college today can range from $30,000 – $60,000 a year. Unfortunately, the expense of earning a degree is forcing more and more students to juggle a full-time student workload with working a substantial number of hours off campus. In fact, about 40 percent of full-time and 73 percent of part-time college students ages 16 to 24 ...

Balancing the workload of a student with that of an entrepreneur is a heavy job for most people out there. Both are needed for greater success, but it might seem like a difficult road to go down. Those people actually experiencing this need a way to handle everything coming at them so that neither falls behind. Entrepreneurs like Dustin Ecton, ...

Drew Brees, the quarterback of the New Orleans Saints, recently captured a record for throwing a touchdown in 48 consecutive games breaking the record of Johnny Unitas. Last season, the Purdue alum set NFL records for most passing yards in a season (5,476), highest single-season completion percentage (71.2 percent) and most seasons with 5,000 yards passing (two — 2008 and 2011). ...

Social networking sites have changed the way we communicate to one another as we have been allowed to, in essence, create our own dictionaries. What we write is a personal expression of how we view words and phonetics and sometimes it ends up intelligible, but most of the time we are just taking a shortcut to get out what we want ...

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If you are a writer, all too often you get a serious case of writers block or just need inspiration.  Look no further for a few quotations for inspiration. “I write six months a year.  I find my story, find its voice, its people, its pace and I retreat into my attic for six hours a day and shut out ...

Like most of you, I used to use the word aggravate as synonymous with irritate. However, I recently found out that it actually means “to make worse.” Epiphany! So what have we learned? This loud music is aggravating my headache! This music is so irritating it’s giving me a headache! Source: R.V. Arana, Howard University Graduate Studies Director/English Professor

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OonDPGwAyfQ] Watch this hilarious video from Taylor Mali about proofreading.