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Staying in School Never Sounded Better
When parents drop off their child on the first day of college, they may find themselves wondering, "Am I paying for my kids to learn or to go rock climbing?"
In addition to sports facilities that'll make everyone else wonder why they're paying $60 a month to go to the gym, student apartment suites that offer more privacy and more intimate common spaces seem to be gaining traction in U.S. colleges. Private rooms, hot tubs, state-of-the-art gyms and fireplaces are just a taste of what high school seniors have to look forward to.
The Loft-Right dormitories at DePaul University are an example of the kind of direction dorms are going. Students live in private bedrooms and share a bathroom with only one other student. The days of home-cooked meals straight off the hotplate gone, a new era has ushered in kitchens with stoves, microwaves and refrigerators. Going to class now requires you to pass through a veritable mini mall of cafes, Starbucks Coffee, tanning salons and nail spas.
Services like grocery delivery and cleaning (including laundry) will have many students thinking that fifth year might not be so bad. And some have already let it go to their head, like a student who inquired about living quarters for his butler!
While living in style is a blessing at any time or age, you have to wonder if this college-time pampering is only setting students up for a bigger post-graduation depression. Most grads these days are either moving back in with mom and dad or trying to make do with what your entry-level salary can get you. When that happens, you won't need a financial planner to tell you, a hot tub is not in the mix.
Four Ingredients for Success. Part Three Put on a Happy Face.
Realists and pessimists alike may have an alarming fact to be realistic about: optimists are more successful and generally live longer.
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic surveyed members of a convent to gauge just how cheery they were. When they came back 30 years later they weren't surprised to see that the optimistic ones tended to outlive the more pessimistic ones. In fact, 90% of the most optimistic survived to 84 years of age, as opposed to only 34% of the most pessimistic.
And that's not all. Researchers also took a look at a group of law students, who were interviewed before they graduated and evaluated for their positivity. Five years later, the ones who were most positive were also the ones who were earning more money. And this was no small difference! We're talking $100,000 a year in the salary gap.
So, what is it exactly about the optimists that make them succeed? Are they always right? No, Pessismists in fact are the ones who are usually far more accurate at assessing situations. However, optimists make up for it by being persistent and resilient, which translates into results. Even though optimists are generally wrong, they will succeed where pessimists give up too early.
Hate, um.. Rate Your Professors
Looking to vent your frustrations toward that especially soporific professor who puts you to sleep every week? Live and growing for almost a decade, scrutinizing eyes have helped ratemyprofessors.com to build a listing of over 1 million university professors!
Unlike those annoying evaluations they make you fill out at the end of the term, these will actually see the light of day and anyone can visit the website to view comments you've written about your professor. Planning out your next course schedule? Look here for the Oh-No's and Oh-Yes's of your college campus. Feeling like giving back to the world? Pass along some friendly advice about the courses you've taken. Your peers (though maybe not your professors) will thank you for it.
