According to Business Insider, the most effective music to listen to while studying lacks lyrics, features sounds of nature or has a specific tempo.
In general, music is a great way to get through repetitive and mindless tasks, like completing a problem set you already know how to do or memorizing important dates.

There are many days where I leave my dorm at 8 a.m. to return 12 hours later.
Though I spent those hours focusing on class and studying, with little breaks to eat, I almost always return feeling unproductive.

I hadn’t taken a picture in more than one year. The idea of looking at myself was both horrific and depressing. I don’t know when it happened but looking at myself got hard and then impossible.

Summer can feel a long way from a vacation for some college students. Between internships, jobs, summer classes and various exams, it is hard to find a moment that is not related to the future.

I walk to class and admire people’s outfits nearly every day. Generally, I will gush over someone’s cute crop top or a pair of Yeezy shoes I want, but since the beginning of February I’ve noticed a change.

Pride Week is coming to an end at UCLA. Your neighborhood lesbians are playing Lady Gaga’s gay anthem “Born This Way” and there are rainbow flags everywhere.

I am a black girl who loves her giant box braids. Recently, I was invited to a conference for one of the largest accounting firms in the world.