In your lifetime, you will face many difficult decisions that have to be made in a timely fashion? One of the most difficult and most important: college. As the title suggests, one of the most valuable asset is priceless: US News and World Report Best College Rankings. Believe it or not, it is a free online resource with a 1,400 schools in its database in addition to many subcategories to choose from such as:

• Business Schools

• Engineering Schools

• Most Valued Schools

• “A+ Schools for B Students”

• “Up-and-Coming Colleges”

• “Academic Programs to look for”

• Historically African American Shools

• “Best…

Around 6:20 tomorrow morning, I will be walking up my street (literally up, it’s a hill), where, at the top, I shall catch the school bus to my first day of school.  With this, my high school years will begin, and yet another chapter of my life ends.  But, with these four years of high school up and coming, I am beginning some new things that look like tons of fun, and am preparing for the four years of life some people consider the best.

• First of all, I have gotten involved in a new-to-me sport that is loads of …
  
  

It’s graduation time! What do you get a graduate?

If you simply know a graduate, who you’d like to congratulate with a gift, there’s really only one question you need to keep in mind when getting one: will the graduate definitely be able to use this wherever he or she is headed next? What a graduate really needs (well, everyone needs it) is money. You might feel uncomfortable simply giving money, because it doesn’t come across as a gift that has a lot of thought put into it, but you can rest-assured that this is not what the graduate is…

At the end of every school year, kids begin to get bored and feel that the school year is almost over, so why keep trying.  This is known as senioritis and is a major problem, as this can make or break a school year.  Here are some anti-senioritis strategies, both for parents and the kids:

• Parents, remind the child that although the year is almost up, there is still a lot that could go wrong.  If he has positive pressure, he may keep working hard and not fold.  He needs to realize that the end of the year is close,…
  
  

As this school year comes to a close, I am beginning to look back and reflect on my middle school experiences.  On June 17th, I will graduate middle school and move on, leaving that part of my life behind.

Middle school is a confusing part of your life, as you go through some major changes in these years and evolve into who you really are.  You will go through these changes on both a mental and  physical level, so you may leave the school a totally different person.

First of all, you should become involved in a lot of school activities. …