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Your college degree is only one facet to the entirety of your education. College students, whether they pursue a traditional degree program or an online degree program, need to have other activities and accomplishments to accentuate their academic achievements and distinguish them from their competition for employment.

There are several activities you may pursue that will flavor the college experience and give you another positive point on your resume, depending on the time, money, and commitment you’re capable of putting into it. With all these options to choose from, every college student should be able to accomplish something besides their classes for the week.

College enrollment costs are just the beginning of your college bill. Once classes are paid for, college students have to deal with other expenditures like lab fees, textbooks, and–I know it seems silly to say it, but it’s true–food. When you’re running from that class that gets out at 6:45 pm to that class that starts at 7:00 pm and you haven’t had a bite to eat since that break you had between 11:15 and 1:00, chances are you’re living off of snacks, and that can start to add up really quickly.

Here’s some ways you can start saving money this semester because, let’s face it, the recession is still a real killer to our bank accounts.

The decision to go back to school is not an easy one, but newly enrolled college students commonly face an even more difficult challenge: what should they study? Eighty-percent of college students change their major one to three times over the course of their college experience.

One of the ways to tackle selecting a major is to approach it at a professional level: what occupational role do you want to fill when you exit college? Another, of course, is to pursue your passions and let your path take its course. Regardless of how you approach your major, Ashworth College‘s Career Myths Debunked is a useful, 6-page read on the career options available for prospective college students that may be overlooked due to inaccurate assumptions on occupations and majors like…