Mar 24th, 2013 at 12:00PM:
Spring Breakers, did you know that anyone boarding a plane is covered by a "passenger bill of rights?" Or that in Mexico you're guilty until you can prove yourself innocent?
Lawyers.com's editor in chief, Larry Bodine, has some legal insights that Spring Breakers should digest well before their first Jello shot – particularly the 120,000 students heading to Mexico this year.
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Mar 24th, 2013 at 12:00PM:
Spring Breakers, did you know that anyone boarding a plane is covered by a "passenger bill of rights?" Or that in Mexico you're guilty until you can prove yourself innocent?
Lawyers.com's editor in chief, Larry Bodine, has some legal insights that Spring Breakers should digest well before their first Jello shot – particularly the 120,000 students heading to Mexico this year.
...Jeffersonian dorm rooms in Charlottesville
Feb 7th, 2012 at 10:00AM: What's the hardest part about living in a dorm room designed by one America's founding fathers in the early part of the 19th century? Braving the elements when nature calls in the middle of the night.
"But guys have it easier," says Anne Allen, a fourth year student at the University of Virginia (UVA), who lives on The Lawn in Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village at the University of Virginia, ...Best college restaurant: Good Morning America wants your vote
Nov 19th, 2010 at 11:30AM: For most of us, college was a low period in our culinary lives. Ramen, macaroni and cheese, beer for breakfast. . .ah, the memories!
When we got tired of contributing to our freshman fifteen with junk food, there was always that one place that served up something a little better, a little special. If you've been to college, or even if you haven't, I bet you just thought of that place right now. ...Plane Answers: So you want to be a pilot? Here's how.
Jan 14th, 2010 at 8:00PM: Michael asks:
I am an aspiring airline pilot and I was wondering what were the steps you took to get hired with the airlines. So far I am 15 and starting my flight training with the Civil Air Patrol.
So you want to be a pilot? You've probably read the stories of the expensive flight training, years of instructing followed by long working hours at a regional with shockingly low pay rates. ...Sarah Palin and Hawaii don't mix? About comfort zones vs going rogue
Dec 8th, 2009 at 6:00PM: Here's a tidbit about Sarah Palin that caught my attention. According to her dad, Palin left college in Hawaii because being around too many Asians made her feel uncomfortable. Interesting. Sarah Palin attributes her leaving the Aloha State after just one semester to too much sunshine for an 18 year-old---as in beaches and academics are not a great mix for an Alaskan gal. Read Palin's book Going ...Five ways to enjoy "Suicide Sunday"
Jun 17th, 2009 at 8:00AM: I stumbled into Cambridge, England on "Suicide Sunday," a joyous occasion in which the local university students cut loose and get wasted blow off steam following the completion of final exams. The streets are packed with tourists and students, the former gawking, the latter playing. To witness the events is figuratively intoxicating, while to participate offers a more literal experience. The ...Hey, college students: Here are 5 ways you can afford that next trip
May 13th, 2009 at 10:00AM: College can be a cruel time for would-be globe-trotters: It's often the time when you most want to travel-- whether it's Spring Break in Mexico or a month in Europe-- but it's also one of the times you're least able to. Why?
No money. Sure, it might be easy to take out tens of thousands of dollars of student loans to fund your trip, but you will pay for this, with compound interest, later. Better ...Talking travel with college admissions guru Katherine Cohen
Jun 23rd, 2008 at 9:00AM: Katherine Cohen is a former reader at Yale's admissions office, founder of a admissions counseling service, Applywise, and author of two bestsellers about college admissions: The Truth About Getting In and Rock Hard Apps. As the summer season gets into high swing, she's here to talk about planning college tours as part of a roadtrip. Given the skyrocketing gas prices, why should students and their ...Study Before Studying Abroad
Oct 25th, 2006 at 9:15AM: During my college days I never took the opportunity to do a semester abroad and I always wished I had. Not so much to learn about how the world operates outside of my own backyard, I was a military brat so I'd been a good handful of places, but I know studying abroad probably could have helped me pick up a foreign language ten times faster than being here in the States. Boo-hoo for me though. ...More University Students Taking Part in Study Abroad
Aug 8th, 2006 at 5:07PM: Not to rip off the Washington Post or anything today, but they've just got the travel news that seems worth sharing. In this article they talk about the rate at which student study abroad travel is going. I don't know about you, but I'd say it's booming - it has tripled in the last 20 years. Basically it used to be a time when only foreign language geeks would scurry off some place exotic like ...
