The Virtue of Being Thrifty: How to Spend Your Money Wisely in College
College is expensive. You may have a generous scholarship and financial aid package, but it still makes good financial sense to save money where you…
Freshman Survival Guide
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…
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…
