Apartment Hunting
Graduate School
Budgeting
Job Market
Stress&time management
100
This is the average price for a two bedroom apartment in Pullman
What is $713?
100
These are the common types of graduate programs.
What are PhD programs, masters programs, medical schools, law schools, veterinary schools, and dentistry schools?
100
This is the average amount spent on food per month by a 20-year-old.
What is $200 to $300?
100
This is the website available to WSU students for finding jobs and internships.
What is Handshake?
100
helps you get tasks done faster
What is setting time limit for daily tasks
200
This is the month by which most people sign their lease for their apartment.
What is February?
200
This is the most expensive type of graduate program, with most students graduating with upwards of $150,000 in debt.
What is medical school?
200
you get a paycheck worth $150, you know that you will need to spend $50 for utilities and $100 for groceries, but you also want to spend $50 on Bluetooth speaker. what do you do?
Be able to prioritize.
200
This is a resource office on campus where you find a career and internship-related services.
What is the Academic Success and Career Center (ASCC)?
200
helps you to meet your deadlines and prioritize your tasks.
What are sticky/electronic notes, planner?
300
These are the common lifestyle adjustments that people make when moving off campus.
What are cooking, finding transportation, and paying rent and utilities?
300
These are the entrance exams for medical school, law school, dental school, and PhD programs, respectively.
What are the MCAT, LSAT, DAT, and GRE?
300
This is the amount you would spend if you bought a grande latte from Starbucks every day for a month.
What is $113? (without tax!)
300
This is the average number of applicants for a single job. 22% of these applicants get an interview.
What is 118?
300
Ways to decrease stress
What are breathing, Don’t rely on your memory… write it down, Believe in yourself, Schedule play time every day etc... (101 ways to cope with stress)
400
DABCO, Campus Commons/ Cougar Crest, WSU, Helene's Properties, Highland Property Management, Summerhill rentals, and Midway Property Management
What are popular apartment/ off-campus property management companies?
400
These are the best ways to make yourself a more qualified applicant for graduate programs.
What are good grades, prerequisite courses, leadership experiences, and internships/ extracurricular activities?
400
This is how much money people spend on average to START living off campus (security deposit + your portion of first and last month's rent).
What is $1000?
400
These are the common "soft skills" sought by employers.
What are multitasking, initiative, and creative thinking?
400
It is Saturday at 9:00 pm and you know that you have 2 exams on Monday that you haven't started studying for. your friend asks you if you want to go hang out. what do you do?
say that you cannot hang out! (so that you do not lose sleep on Sunday night)
500
Schedule a tour, ask about rent/ utilities and amenities, fill out the application (including credit and background checks), sign the lease, and pay the security deposit.
What are the steps you take to rent an apartment?
500
These are benefits of going to graduate school.
What are better career opportunities, increased salary ($17,000 more on average), and personal growth?
500
This is how much you would save after a year if you saved 10% of your $400/month paycheck.
What is $480?
500
you have an applied for a job and you have an interview coming soon. how can you prepare for the interview?
you can ask for help in the Academic Success and Career Center (ASCC), also you can go to WSU workshops that help in preparing for interviews.
500
you have been working for 2 hours on a hw and you started to feel stressed. what would you do?
take some time off the hw and do an activity (you like to do) that will decrease your stress.
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