All you need to do is find a gap of about a half hour to an hour of your day, at least three days a week to head to the gym.

Exercise can limit the chance of getting a cold or the flu and will strengthen the immune system.

One way to combat depression is exercising! A national health and nutrition survey stated that people who were physically active were half as likely to be depressed. Serotonin, the neurotransmitter in the brain that is meant to keep your mind calm is boosted when a person does physical activity as well.

The act of exercising enables a person to let go of their stressors at the same time and allow for them to exhaust themselves of what is holding them down.

Staying in shape is not the only reason why it is important to exercise, it is also very important for the brain. Exercise is proven to stop memory loss and can even stimulate brain growth leading to increased mental capacity.

“You’re trying to shape a life that leads you to a happy place,”

that students aren’t learning to stumble and to right themselves, which they can do in college with lower stakes than later on.

One crossroads that students often get needlessly worked up about is choosing a major.

Several faculty members were also there

Most students don’t fully get that

Many students, nervous about a new environment, follow friends from high school or people whose demographic backgrounds match their own into homogeneous cocoons.

The more you regard college as a credentialing exercise, the less likely you are to get the benefits.”

My focus is on optimal ways to socialize, to prioritize, to pick up skills integral to any career and to open up exciting opportunities both en route to a degree and after you’ve acquired it.

Go big. Go small. Put prestige above cost. Do the opposite.

“Many of our students did great in high school, but they come here and don’t realize that you can’t just study the night before for a test,

Living-learning communities, which house students who have similar personal or academic interests,

Taking more credits has benefits other than cutting time to a degree.

Do the math — most students don’t, and it’s difficult to catch up: You need 15 credits a semester on average to get through in four years.

Melanie Tucci calculated that she would have to work about 30 hours a week as well as take out loans to make it through college

Only 45 percent of students who work more than that are able to keep their grade-point averages above 3.0

connections

increased student engagement, improved academic outcomes

gained a much richer understanding of the organizational communication concepts that they were studying in class and that they had greater confidence in their communication skills than they possessed prior to their CSL experience

it is illustrated in numerous studies that students benefit personally with regards to an increased sense of efficacy

“service-learning has a positive effect on students’ personal and interpersonal development, including a sense of personal identity, spiritual growth, moral development, the ability to work well with others, and leadership and communication skills

“service-learning has a positive effect on students’ personal and interpersonal development, including a sense of personal identity, spiritual growth, moral development, the ability to work well with others, and leadership and communication skills

he key to CSL is that the learning experiences are well-connected with the course material in a way that the engagement with the course material aids in more successfu

experiential learning –

during the Depression

Zinn joined the Army Air Corps

Again.” “I would not deny that [WWII] had a certain moral core, but that made it easier for Americans to treat all subsequent wars with a kind of glow,” Zinn said. “Every enemy becomes Hitler.” Years later he would look back at his role in dropping what was then ca

Thomas Jefferson

(and save your fingers)."

Zinn joined the Army Air Corps in 1943, eager to fight the fascists, and became a bombardier

Zinn continued reading literature to help understand the world around him including The Communist Manifesto, The Jungle, and The Grapes of Wrath.

Vietnam

He went on to read about fascism in Europe

Zinn was hit and knocked unconscious.

Zinn was hit and knocked unconscious

His parents were Jewish immigrants

Born Aug. 24, 1922, Howard Zinn grew up in New York City. His parents were Jewish immigrants, and met as factory workers. His father worked as a ditch digger and window cleaner during the Depression. His father and mother ran a neighborhood candy store for a brief time, barely getting by. For many years his father was in the waiter’s union and worked as a waiter for weddings and bar mitzvahs.