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A Starter’s Guide to Making the Most of Your Time
Time. It is a valuable resource that we often feel we are running out of. “If only I had more time!” How often do you find yourself saying or thinking
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Credit Cards: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
What exactly is a credit card it? Contrary to popular belief, credit cards are not free money. You can’t just swipe it to buy that new couch for your apartment
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Interview with Xiang from China
This week on the Bridges Blog we wanted to get to know you, our reader, a little bit more. So we’ve started by interviewing students involved with Bridges around the
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The American Healthcare System
Traveling through the tangled forest of the American healthcare system can be very tricky, even for Americans. So for international students, it can be well, a foreign experience. But let’s
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How do I make friends with people different than me?
Part of the excitement of studying in a different country is the opportunity to meet people from all over the world. You will find that you share many things in
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What to Expect on April Fool’s Day
I am a big practical joker. For many years, my brother and I have had what we affectionately call a “Prank War” declared on one another. The jokes we play