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Lessons Learned From Freshman Year in College

Posted onSeptember 13, 2017November 3, 2019AuthorRachel J. Jones

Feature Photo Credit: Kimberly Boyd, Twisted Kreations at UAPB After one year of college I learned a few lessons. My freshmen year was filled with fun, work, and people. My main goal for freshman year was to have a successful academic term and not repeat Read More …

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Ladies Behind Hip Hop Labels

Posted onSeptember 5, 2017September 4, 2018AuthorRonda Lee

The stories about the rise of hip hop record labels focus heavily on men. Little is said about the women in the game, moving, shaking, trailblazing and mentoring. Too often women of color are reduced to caricatures – the ratchetness of reality TV. The notion Read More …

CategoriesBusiness, Careers, College, Music, Women

The Horror of the Freshman 15

Posted onJune 17, 2017September 25, 2019AuthorRachel J. Jones1 Comment

I thought it was a myth. I thought it was something people say to scare us newbies, freshmen, but it is real. My bony chicken legs started to look like jumbo carnival size turkey legs. My flat as a table tummy deformed into a Kangaroo Read More …

CategoriesCollege, Education, Health

Tips for Girls’ Success in STEM

Posted onSeptember 23, 2016August 28, 2018AuthorRonda Lee

Hidden Figures is a book by Margot Lee Shetterly turned into a movie based on the story of black women working at NASA in the 1950s space race between the US and the former Soviet Union (USSR). Representation matters! As a young girl, I remember that my Read More …

CategoriesCareers, College, Education, Education, Technology, Women

Yale, Blackface & Erika Christakis

Posted onNovember 11, 2015February 7, 2019AuthorRonda Lee

2019 Update: Virginia’s Governor Ralph Northam and Attorney General Mark Herring are caught in blackface. Every Halloween, schools across the country deal with blackface. Blackface history began post Civil War when as USA Today notes, “white men would darken their faces to create caricatures of black Read More …

CategoriesCollege, Education, Education, Politics, Race

Roommate Hell Post College

Posted onAugust 18, 2015June 29, 2022AuthorRonda Lee

Old habits die hard. Those nasty college roommates that won’t pick up after themselves, eat your food, leave dirty underwear in the bathroom – they do not go away. They grow up and become the tagline for worst roommate ever. I’ve encountered a few that Read More …

CategoriesCollege, Housing, Humor, Weird

Tips for Surviving Freshman Year

Posted onAugust 12, 2014September 25, 2019AuthorRonda Lee

Get live in ‘89. ‘89 get live! Get all the way live in ‘89. ‘89 get live. That is 1989. June 1989, I graduated high school and immediately began packing for college. I was a first-generation college student. I was ready to live on campus, Read More …

CategoriesCollege, Education

8 Tips for Career Success: Graduates

Posted onMay 5, 2014May 15, 2019AuthorRonda Lee

I did a guest article titled Powered for Endurance where I wrote about the “new normal” for college graduates post 2008. The “New Normal” is  – four (five) years of college, almost six figures in debt, and there are no job prospects on the horizon in Read More …

CategoriesCareers, College, Education

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Powered for Endurance Part 1

Posted onFebruary 12, 2014August 28, 2018AuthorRonda Lee

Following up on my Endurance – The Game Changer post, I am doing a three part series titled “Powered for Endurance” as a guest writer for Mr.Refined Magazine. Part 1 – Powered for Endurance was published today. Part 2 features my interview with actor Marchello Read More …

CategoriesCareers, College, Education, Inspiration

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