Standing Up to Stress: How to Avoid Getting Crushed by College Anxiety
What if I fail? No matter how together they might seem on the outside, in the back of most new college students’ minds lurks the…
Freshman Survival Guide
7 Simple Steps for the Summer Before College
You’ll be amazed at how quickly the time passes between graduation day and packing the car to leave for college. Make the most of the…
Pope Francis’ Advice for College Students
Pope Francis has a reputation for saying surprising things. Remember when he found common ground between Christians and atheists? Then there was the time he…
6 Bad Habits in High School (and what they’ll look like in college)
High school students are entering a critical time of year — college acceptance/rejection letter season — when seniors find out where they got in and…
Freshman Survival 2013 — A User’s Guide
The next few months are anxiety-filled times not only for students but for parents and high school educators as well, as they begin finding out…
Back To College: What To Pack and What Not To Pack
What Not To Pack: 1. Your judgments: You’ll find that some of your professors and classmates have a completely different perspective about political, social, religious,…
10 Things High School Grads Need To Know About College
So you’ve just graduated high school. Congratulations! When people ask you, “So what are you doing in the fall?” you know the answer. Maybe you’ve…
Survival Story
On the eve of the publication of their book, co-authors Nora Bradbury-Haehl and Bill McGarvey discuss how, over the course of six years, an evening…
Looking Back and Moving Forward…
When I took over as editor-in-chief of Busted Halo in May 2004 we were still living in a web 1.0 world. YouTube, Facebook and Twitter…
The Freshman Survival Guide
Welcome to the 2010 version of Busted Halo’s Freshman Survival Guide — the first college guide to offer a holistic look into the lives of college students by combining practical advice on student life — academics, relationships and lifestyle — with guidance on coping with the emotional and spiritual issues college students face. Here are our online Freshman Survival Guide resources for 2010:
