September 11, 2012 4:14 pm
Frosh 2012: Surviving your first year
Follow this advice and you’ll breeze through your first year. Remember, learning from your own mistakes makes you smart, but learning from other people’s mistakes makes you brilliant!
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September 7, 2012 8:47 pm
Frosh 2012: Living with liquor
“Know that it’s a drug,” said Bruce Rogerson, director of Campus Security and Traffic at the University of New Brunswick. “It’s the number one killer in the world as far as drugs are known with respect to causes of death either now, or later in life.”
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September 7, 2012 8:30 pm
Frosh 2012: Start your dorm diet right
As you wade through the first few days out of your parents’ clutches, the choices you make will come to define your life as a university student. And it’s a slippery slope towards unhealthy and expensive eating choices. So use these first weeks — and the tasty recipes below — to spice up your dorm diet, stave off the dreaded Freshman 15 and stick it to those faceless fast food corporations.
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September 6, 2012 6:43 pm
Frosh 2012: How to keep your scholarship (or at least get B's)
It's first year and maybe you’ve scored a pretty sweet deal with an awesome entrance scholarship. Whether it’s a few hundred dollars or a couple grand, maintaining your scholarship will probably be a priority for you.
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September 6, 2012 6:43 pm
Frosh 2012: What I wish I knew on the first day of school
Don’t worry. Come next year you’ll realize that first-years — and almost everyone else on campus — have very little knowledge of what the hell they’re doing. I’ve put together some advice to help you get through.
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