Discount culture
What with tuition, parking decals, textbooks, gas, and those oh-so-perfectly-timed everyday mishaps, who has the money to live a financially care-free college life? Thankfully, in San Antonio, being a college student brings respect. Various locations throughout the city offer struggling students noteworthy discounts. Here are a few of my favorites. San Antonio Museum of Art…
Link logic
Making use of online apps and group-editing tools can enhance your scholastic performance or bog you down in hard-to-operate, poorly conceived projects. Here are some sure-fire tools to bring out the best side of your research. Google Docs Have you ever lost an important file on your computer? Do you own outdated, sluggish word-processing…
Better than half-price
During my Freshman year, I spent around $300 on textbooks, workbooks, and some fancy calculator that my professors deemed “required.” I assumed that meant that these materials would be imperative to the curriculum, that I would use them for something other than a doorstop (and a shitty one at that). I thought that if I…
How for-profit thinking undermines teachers
The flipside of back to school for students is back to work for the teachers who fill the classrooms of colleges and universities throughout San Antonio — an apropos reminder for a college guide issue that tails the Labor Day holiday. We tend to view college campuses as ivory towers cut off from the everyday…
OLLU
As much as San Antonians talk about how small our city feels, many of us end up retracing the same routes again and again on our way to eat, drink, and shop — after an hour trying to figure out what to do — keeping it boring. Here’s a new block to shake up your…
UTSA
With over 30,000 students crowding the UTSA campus, where can a Roadrunner run to escape the headaches of academic life? Of course, you can nuzzle a cup of Joe at the University Center Starbucks, but beware long lines in the morning and lunchtime. Or you can hit the Einstein Bros. inside the Bioscience and Engineering…
Roomies
“One day I walked into my apartment and there was a 12-year-old smoking weed and watching Tom and Jerry’s Greatest Hits” says Brittney Gilsdorf, who, out of desperation for a roommate, moved in with a casual acquaintance and suffered the consequences. “She had weirdos over constantly. Once there was some 80-year-old dude on the couch…
Love doctoring
There are few dilemmas more stressful than an unexpected pregnancy or exposure to a sexually transmitted disease. The last thing you want to do is compound the experience with worry about how to pay for the necessary medical care. Thankfully, there are a few local organizations that offer services from low costs to no cost.…
Brain juice
While Starbucks definitely works in a pinch, here are some excellent independent-styled coffeehouses where your coffee-lovin’ dollar goes towards local businesses (even if that business is a church) rather than a big-ass corporation. Grace Coffee Café 3233 N Saint Mary’s St Suite 102 (210) 736-6576 Gracecoffeecafe.com The Foundry 2720 McCullough Ave (210) 785-8208 thefoundry-sa.org Guadalupe…
