15 Self-Defense Tips Every College Female Needs

This is a guest post by Best Colleges Online, an online college resource guiding you toward challenging, satisfying academic programs that will propel your career into the future.

One out of every five college women will be the victims of rape or attempted rape. Thousands more are robbed or otherwise assaulted. Avoiding becoming a statistic means taking control of your own safety. There are many things you can do to protect yourself should the need arise, but they need to be ingrained in your mind so that you can make use of them when you are in shock or are otherwise incapacitated. Here are 15 tips that will help ensure your college experience is memorable for the right reasons.

Assess the Risk

A big part of protecting yourself is gauging potential threats before …

#PhotoaDayMay: A Favorite Word

This was a pretty difficult prompt for me today, which is why I’m just now writing this post. I needed time to think! Sure, “a favorite word” sounds simple enough, until I realized I don’t necessarily have a favorite word. I’m a fan of words in general, but I don’t tend to latch onto words or develop some sort of connection or emotional attachment to a particular word or group of words. So I basically spent the day periodically thinking of words that inspire me in one way or another.

Revolution is an extremely inspiring word to me. Deeply rooted in my mind as a state of political being, it reminds me of the greatest recent case of widespread activism, that being the Occupy Wall Street protests, which I have been …

#PhotoaDayMay: Something You Do Everyday

Computer, coffee, and headphones at the kitchen table, also known as my workspace, and of course my blog dashboard is up on the computer screen. This is pretty much what my daily workday looks like. Sometimes I move to the couch if I’m having more of a relaxing day and can watch some television between blog posts and emails, but most of the time this is it. It’s a rather nice thing to call “work.” Sometimes I forget how fortunate I am to have taken this hope of mine of writing for a living and running a website and to have successfully turned it into my reality. Fortunate indeed.

If you want to join in, check out the May Photo a Day Challenge List.

#PhotoaDayMay: Skyline

This is the view from my back porch. The weather today was disappointing, to say the least. It was cold, rainy, and there were so many dark clouds that it looked like it was dusk all day long. You can usually see windmills lining the top of the mountains, but because of all the fog we had, you can’t see them here.

Worst day for a skyline picture, for sure.

If you want to join in, check out the May Photo a Day Challenge List.

Getting into a Luxury Car the Affordable Way

When we think of luxury items like designer clothes, handbags, shoes, accessories, and vehicles–especially luxury vehicles–we simultaneously file them in our minds as both highly coveted and unattainable. We distance the word ‘luxury’ from our perception of what is realistic for us; as if something that is luxurious is solely meant for celebrities, athletes, and executives worth millions.

What makes a car a luxury vehicle is the culmination of a few different factors, but most of all, luxury vehicles are the trendsetters of the car world. Luxury vehicle companies make it their duty to utilize the latest advancements in technology to create features that pave the way in how we view car safety, comfort, style, and even entertainment. While features found in a luxury car may be available for lower-end cars, they are generally …

Help Walmart and Feeding America Fight Hunger This Spring

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of The Walmart Foundation. All opinions are 100% mine.

More than 50 million Americans don’t know where their next meal is coming from. Usually we hear most about helping those in need during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, which is when most charitable giving is done. This makes sense, but poverty and hunger affects millions of people every single day, not just during the holidays of selfless giving.

As the instability of the national job market continues, more families are finding themselves in need of a little help, and springtime traditionally brings a decrease in food and charitable donations to food banks across the country. To help increase meals for those in need during the spring hunger gap, Walmart has teamed up with Feeding America …