Everyone has a fear, whether it is monsters, spiders, speaking in public or being around many people at once. Fear is an unpleasant feeling of perceived risk or danger, be it real or imagined. Fear also can be described as a feeling of extreme dislike towards certain conditions, objects or situations such as: fear of darkness, fear of ghosts, etc. Don’t be surprised if someone comes up with a rare fear.
For many students, college is the first time they are in control of the majority of their finances. You might now suddenly be responsible for paying your own bills, working a job that you need to make ends meet, or making the scholarship money you get in August last through December. Unfortunately, these new financial responsibilities come within a context where money is often unusually tight.
You’ve got a midterm coming up. You know you need to study, but you want to go to a party that everyone will be at. If you don’t go you will be left out, but if you don’t study you know you will fail the test. Getting yourself to sit down and study can be a little complicated for a college student who loves to party and hang out with friends. Who wants to study after a long day of lectures in classes? You have your favorite show on TV or things to be done on campus. So what do you do? You start to become a procrastinator. You do all the fun things first and wait until the last minute to study.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, almost every 90 seconds, a person is injured in a drunk driving crash. Drunk driving has begun to become a bigger issue amongst teens. Even though there has been stricter laws, more law enforcement and more education to the public about DUI, people seem to not be getting the message, especially the younger population.
Alleged reports of sexual assaults at the University of Tampa campus have made other campuses in middle Florida nervous and on edge about possible crimes happening to or near them. Saint leo has been often noted as one of the safest campuses in Florida, but how true is that?
Many of us are a bit uncomfortable with the feeling of having a needle wedged into their body. That is why researchers at MIT have been working to perfect a syringe that can inject fluid without the painful stick of a needle.
Child abuse can have many long term effects on a child. These effects range in consequence from minor physical injuries, low self-esteem, attention disorders, and poor peer relations to severe brain damage, violent behavior, and death. The effects may occur in childhood, adolescence, or adulthood, and may affect various aspects of an individual’s development.
There is a way to take action, stand up, and use your voice for those who cannot by being part of a movement that is appropriately named End It.
Within the past few years, a new trend has cast upon the nation. This trend is called extreme couponing. Extreme couponing is when a person with stacks of coupons get their groceries for nearly next to nothing. But how did this trend start and how did it get so popular so quickly? More importantly, how can a college student learn the ways of an extreme couponer but on a much smaller scale?
Some students may believe that their personal lives have nothing to do with science. This is wrong, however, according to Dr. Leo Ondrovic: science deals with every aspect of a person’s being, not just inside their body.
