If you attend High Point University and live in one of its many residence and apartment halls, you’re likely living in the best dorm in the country. School-ranking website Niche ranked the best college dorms based on several factors, including housing cost, housing capacity, and student housing crime rate. Niche heavily weighed student ratings as …
Get up, rush to school, take a few tests, practice for a choir concert, stay after school for sports, go to a guitar lesson, squeeze in homework between dinner and bedtime. Sleep, wake up and repeat. Many kids these days have nonstop schedules like this. The hope — usually of their parents — is that …
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According to etiquette expert Peggy Post, times change, but manners, which she defines as a ‘sensitive awareness of the feelings of others,’ remain constant. ‘If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter which fork you use.’ The rules of etiquette are there to help smooth social interactions, but they aren’t intended to …
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Anticipation is a strange thing. Often, we look forward to our vacation for weeks or months and by the time vacation is over, it feels like we need yet another just to recover. Avoid these fails to make sure your vacation is actually the rest and relaxation you deserve. Not Having a Plan Winging it …
Paranormal investigators, tour guides, and travel agents share their favorite stories from some of the spookiest sites open to the public. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: A haunting history lesson The three-day Battle of Gettysburg claimed the lives of more than 50,000 men from both the Confederate and Union armies, making it the deadliest battle of the Civil …
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If you ask us, ‘bland’ is the worst thing anyone can call our food. We spend so much time planning menus, carefully measuring ingredients, and cleaning up afterward that our food had better be flavorful! Fortunately, you don’t have to scrap a bland meal entirely. Adding a few ingredients will transform your entree or appetizer …
Baking is an enjoyable endeavor, but it can also get tricky, especially if you’re a novice with the oven. However, it’s not impossible to make something at home that looks and tastes like the work of a professional. Even if you’re new to baking, there’s a lot you can do to up your game in …
I never realized just how much I relied on my microwave until I didn’t have one. When I moved into my first adult apartment and discovered it wasn’t equipped with one, I was panicked. Suddenly, tasks that had been so simple became annoyingly complicated: I had to dirty a whole pot if I wanted to …
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Whether you work or stay home, have one kid or 10, parenting is an undeniably hard job. And many moms are the ones responsible for making the bulk of the decisions for their household, which is a lot of weight to bear. In fact, a 2016 study published in American Sociological Review suggests that mothers …