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I'm a professor. I tell all my college freshmen these 6 tips so they have a successful first year.
As a professor, I know what it takes to be a successful college freshman. You need to communicate w…
Jaime Bedrin
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Meet the 40-year-old freshmen: Millennials explain why going back to college is worth it for their paychecks and career — and why they might get more out of it than their Gen Z peers
Millennials pursuing degrees in their 30s and 40s say they're getting more from school than they wo…
Ayelet Sheffey
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I'm a college senior. Here's what I recommend all incoming freshmen get for their dorm rooms — and everything they can leave at home.
College freshmen can leave mattress toppers, bed caddies, and printers off the dorm packing list. B…
Arundhati Ghosh
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I'm a 9th-grade teacher. Here's what I wish parents of freshmen would help their children understand.
The author, who has nearly two decades of experience teaching high-school students, says parents ca…
Emily Brisse
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College weekends were once full of keg stands and hookups. Now, students are bored, lonely, and trapped in their dorm rooms.
Aimée Parvine, a freshman at Howard University, imagined lecture halls with hundreds of strangers. …
Monica Humphries
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Inside the hyper-vigilant life of an international student at Stanford, where a positive COVID-19 test could mean a ticket home
Many college students signed agreements not to party this fall. For one international student at St…
Monica Humphries
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10 best new cars, trucks, and SUVs for college freshmen
Young drivers tend to benefit from a combination of safety, fuel-economy, and low car payments when…
Matthew DeBord
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New college enrollments plunged 16% this fall as incoming freshmen opted for gap years over virtual learning
The trend could spell financial disaster for many schools, which are now facing a drop-off in tuiti…
Graham Rapier
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College freshmen are living in hotels instead of dorms this year. Take a look inside one student's room.
Komisarski's first dorm experience looks slightly different than the typical freshman year. In an e…
Monica Humphries
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11 freshmen at Northeastern were dismissed for violating COVID-19 rules. Their $35,000 tuition won't be reimbursed.
The students were dismissed after they were reportedly caught gathering without masks or socially d…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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College freshmen moved into dorms with hopes of having a 'normal' semester. 3 students told us why they quickly moved back home.
Students at the University of Alabama, University of Missouri, and the University of Michigan told …
Monica Humphries
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Obama to meet with freshmen Democrats, including controversial members Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar
Omar has faced widespread criticism recently, including from members of her own party, for making c…
Eliza Relman
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8 jaw-dropping photos of Naval Academy freshmen climbing a monument covered with 50 pounds of grease
Scaling it and replacing the sailor hat with a midshipmen's officer-like hat would be pretty straig…
Sam Fellman
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'#WheresMitch?': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other freshmen Democrats are moving blame for the shutdown from Trump to Mitch McConnell
The tactic appears to be part of a new round of messaging from Democrats on the shutdown, which rea…
Eliza Relman
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America's top colleges assigned these books to freshmen
While students will get to enjoy the books over the summer, at most colleges they're expected to co…
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From recruitment stats to political beliefs, here's a look at the Harvard incoming class of freshmen
Since then, the school's student paper, The Harvard Crimson, surveyed freshmen on questions pertain…
Abby Jackson
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Professors at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton say their advice to incoming freshmen can be 'distilled to 3 words'
"Thinking for yourself means questioning dominant ideas even when others insist on their being trea…
Abby Jackson
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This reminder of how college freshmen see the world will make you feel old
The list is updated annually, and we combed through this year's to pull out some of the more poigna…