Category: Thrive Guide
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How to Change or Choose Your Major with Confidence
Starting college is exciting, but it can also feel overwhelming when you are asked to make decisions that seem like they will shape the rest of your life. One of the biggest decisions you will face as a freshman at Langston University is choosing a major. For some students, that decision feels clear from day…
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A Perfectionist’s Guide to Avoiding Burnout
When I started college, I was determined to do well. I wanted good grades, leadership positions, academic recognition, and the feeling that I was making the absolute most of my education. In many ways, that mindset benefited me. I graduated with the highest honors, stayed heavily involved, and built experiences I am still proud of…
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A Freshman’s Guide to an HBCU Homecoming
The most alive you’ll ever see Langston’s campus is during Homecoming. Family, friends and Alumni come from all over the country to reunite with the community and enjoy a weekend of football, music, events and good food. Traditionally, Homecoming weekend is supposed to highlight the Alumni and community from the past, but fortunately for current…
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How to Balance Finals and Move-outs
One of the most stressful times of the year is the end of the Spring semester. Most people are preparing to go home, setting up summer internships or summer jobs, all while trying to finish out the last semester of the year with the grades they need. That being said, something you’ll want to put…
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What to do When You Get Sick
Whether you used to get sick often growing up or not, now that you’re in college it’s almost inevitable that you will get sick at least once every year. This could happen for a number of reasons. There could just be the annual virus that’s quickly making its way through campus or its flu season,…
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How to Find Tutoring Services at Langston
Unfortunately, there is quite a lot of stigma around tutoring in education. Often tutoring is seen as a way to fix an educational problem instead of just a way to enhance student learning. Which is a problem in itself. Just because a student might need tutoring, does not automatically mean that they are a failure…
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Navigating McCabe Honors Program Graduate Requirements
Congratulations, you’ve made it into the Langston University Edwin P. McCabe Honors Program! You did what you needed to do to receive either the McCabe Scholarship or the Regent’s Scholarship. But know that you’re on campus, there are a couple things you need to know if you plan to retain said scholarship. Langston runs a…
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Major Clubs and Organizations at Langston
I’m sure you’ve all noticed that outside of the university, there is not much within the City of Langston itself. Langston is a historical part of Oklahoma, so a lot of the original buildings are still around, which is really just City Hall, the post office, Langston Church, a health clinic, a liquor store and…
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What to Know About Title IX and Sexual Health
Now that you’re enrolled and actively taking classes, it is important for you to understand that as a student within a federally funded institution, you have certain rights. One of the big ones is awarded to you through Title IX, a landmark civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in education programs that receive federal…
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How to Build Working Relationships with Your Professors
Arguably, one of the most important relationships you’ll have to build throughout college are the relationships with your professors. It’s inevitable that there will be a professor or two that you will not get along with, but that being said, you will have a much easier time getting through school if you make an effort…