Online Education Blog

According to an August 2011 study by the College Board, the majority of students who just completed their first year of college feel that higher education is vital and worth the time and expense. However, they are expressing regret that high school didn’t prepare them well enough for college. Apparently, high school students going to college are getting a pretty rough wake up call.

Nearly one-quarter of students in the study were required to take non-credit remedial courses during their freshman year, while 54 percent reported that their college classes were “more difficult than they expected in terms of what students needed to know and what was required to get good grades.” Getting ready for college is an essential task, and it’s a shame that students don’t feel like the job is being done well enough.

One of the benefits of attending an online university is the ability to save money on food by cooking at home. The cheapest meals are those cooked at home, but for some students, college meals mean nothing more than macaroni and cheese. Fortunately, there are many easy recipes for college students that are affordable, healthy and most importantly, delicious!

You don’t have to spend a fortune to make delicious, nutritious meals that will fill you up and keep your wallet full as well! Meals for college students are typically of pretty low caliber, but with a few ingredients and a little window of time in the kitchen and you can have great meals.

College is extremely expensive. There simply is no way around it. Paying for college tuition is an arduous task that often requires great sacrifice. With the average college debt after graduation on the rise, it can be an overwhelming expense to incur.

Fortunately for a lot of students, their parents are more than willing to shell out the cash to pay for their schooling. Parents paying for college is a societal norm that is relatively common, but this isn’t always the case. Do parents have to pay for college? Of course not, but the better question is, should parents pay for college? Some argue that when parents pay for college, the child doesn’t value their education as much, while others says that the parents should be the ones paying for college tuition because the child would likely have no means of paying for it.