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Updated with current information for 2022 OU Student Services staff get that living with a roommate is a big adjustment. Whether you’re an underclassman in a dorm, or you’re living on your own, roommates can be a blessing or a bane. To help students adjust, OU maintains a Twitter feed to dispense advice for those needing …

College is traditionally a time when students begin taking on a bit of responsibility for themselves. That may be because your parents are struggling to put you through college, or it may be that, even if your parents are well heeled, they’d like you to at least make an effort to demonstrate you know …

OU students may be living the small-town life in their Athens Ohio rental homes, apartments and dorms but there’s no reason you can’t get a taste for the world’s varied cultures as part of your university experience. Opportunities for future leaders, both domestic and foreign, to meet and exchange ideas about culture and heritage …

Now that you’re in college you are developing habits that could be with you for a lifetime. One of the best you can cultivate is the practice of meditation. Traditionally, college students have been known to use their newfound freedom to succumb to binge drinking, partying, over-eating, failing to get adequate sleep and arriving …