Welcome to College: A Freshman’s Survival Guide
Starting college is no cakewalk. You’re living in a sardine can with a complete stranger, sprinting miles each week to be on-time to classes, figuring out how to get recognized in a lecture of 400,...
View ArticleA Useful Flowchart to Choosing Your Major
It’s important to gather all the resources you can to help with your “major decision.” It’s also important to have fun thinking about it. We’re here to help with both. Check out the fun flowchart...
View ArticleLook at Me Now – Major Wisdom from Zinch + Chegg
We know having to think about a college major right out of high school is a tough position to be in, so we want to give you some real perspective before you choose a focus. Here’s a video from our team...
View Article3 Important Things to Consider When Choosing Your Major
What are you interested in? What do you want to study for the next four years? How will this decision affect your job prospects? These are just a few of the questions most incoming freshmen face...
View ArticleGet Work Done Using Facebook
“You’re not doing your homework, you’re just on Facebook,” is one of the things I hear every now and then. And you may have experienced this too but as a college student, and somebody that has grown up...
View ArticleA Letter From Dan
Fall is right around the corner bringing about the start of a new school year. And, along with all of the usual excitement and energy that surrounds the return to campus life, this is also an election...
View ArticleUnderstanding Major Requirements
Your major courses will make up the last chunk of credits or units to complete your degree program. Some majors require a lot of units to complete, others not as much. For example, at my school,...
View ArticleMajor Pains: Picking a Major Is Tough But Doesn’t Have To Be
College Truth #1: Get used to hearing the question: “So, what’s your major?” If you haven’t already, you’ll find out in college (as I have) that your major is greatly associated with you/how people...
View ArticleFictional Majors You Wish Existed
If only… 1) CS2= Computer Science Chowdown Science With this major, we dig deep to find out what it really means to “eat”. Students of this major get first-hand experience with food. Our department...
View ArticleFrom Majors to Careers: How Chegg Employees Got Here
Do you know exactly what you want to do after graduating college? It’s a question you will be asked several times between now and commencement. It’s also something that you might not be able to...
View ArticleHow to Choose a College Major
What to Think About Think about your passions and interests: The phrase “do what you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life” is thrown around so much that it’s become cliché, BUT IT’S...
View ArticleHow to Create Your Own Major, Just like Emma Watson
One of my favorite celebrities, Emma Watson of Harry Potter, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and recently of The Bling Ring fame, is also known for attending Brown University in Rhode Island. Brown...
View ArticleCollege Majors for Every Type of Artist
If you’re the artsy kind of high school student, memorizing every part of the human skeleton in your biology class or solving long proofs in geometry isn’t really appealing to you. You may even be...
View ArticleMy Quest for the Perfect College Major
You know those people who seem to be so good at one thing that there’s no question they’ll be doing it in the future? No matter what high school you go to, there are always the early birds, ready to...
View ArticleWhat “Marrying Within Your Major” REALLY Means
Looking for love in all the wrong places? Priceonomics recently published a research showing the correlation between what people decided to major in college and how likely they were to marry within...
View ArticleSenior Real Talk: Which Major to Pick?
In this week’s edition of Senior Real Talk, Paige D. from Arlington, Texas writes… I’ve been accepted, but I still don’t know what I want to do! Will it matter in my first year or put me behind? What...
View ArticleThe 15 Highest Paying College Majors of 2015
Money, money, money. Dollar bills, dollar bills, dollar bills. Now that I have your attention, we can talk about majors that will help you get the most of those two things! If you ever wanted to know...
View ArticleNot Another Headache: What Do I Do With a Major or Minor?
Congrats! You’re about to start your college journey — but now is the dubious task of figuring out what to study. Maybe you’ve known you want to study veterinary science since you were 10 – go you. But...
View ArticleCrazy College Majors You Never Knew Existed
Whenever my relatives or mom’s friends ask me what school I go to, I already know what question is coming next. “What’s your major?” they ask, as I paste on a smile and search desperately for possible...
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Top 10 Tips for Picking a Major
The 10 Habits of Successful College Students What makes some college students successful, while others — well, less so? Sometimes, it’s a question of intelligence or insight. And sometimes, it’s sheer...
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