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Psychology Professor Gary Lewandowski Featured in “The Princeton Review’s Guide to 300 Best Professors”

Monmouth University has one of the country’s best undergraduate teachers, according to The Princeton Review. The Massachusetts based education services, widely known for its test prep courses, books, and student survey based college rankings profiles Psychology Professor Gary Lewandowski in its new book, The Best 300 Professors.

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How to Not be Treated Like a “Winter Rental”

Keeping Your Relationship Sunny Through the Summer


Summer is almost here and “single” is in the air.  All year long from the first week of September until Memorial Day weekend, we sit around pining for “the one.”  But something about summer triggers a sense of freedom in the blood.  Your friends are all coming home from school, you’re starting that new lifeguarding job, classes are over and any type of responsibility sounds like torture. 

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How Professors Get the Grade

Getting Familiar With Faculty Evaluations


Students always know when it’s about to happen. With less than two weeks left of classes, the professor wraps up one class a few minutes early, reaching for a manila envelope on their desk. A brief speech about something called the SIRs is brought to your attention as a questionnaire is distributed to you and your peers. The professor quietly leaves, giving you a few minutes to look it over and an­swer the questions laid out before you.

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Tests, Quizzes, Essays… and a Publication

Some students decide to get in­volved with student affairs, others with athletics, some with clubs, and then there are a few others who decide to write books. This happens to be the choice that Aziz Mama and Matthew- Donald Sangster made when they co-authored The Stranger Inside: Stories from Beneath the Mirrored Glass, published in May 2011 under their own publication house, Mama Sangster Publications.

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Overcoming the Obstacle of Writer’s Block

IMAGE TAKEN from wordsmithbob.comThe vertical flashing black line in Microsoft Word is staring you down and reminding you just how little you have written thus far. Writer’s block can be downright demoralizing if you have an assignment due. Whether it is from distraction or procrastination, or your mind is at a standstill, writer’s block is frustrating when it refuses to relent. What is it that causes this bothersome problem and how can it be defeated if someone is stuck at a crossroads?