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• Washington faces difficulties launching legal pot
• Community College Students: Budget for These 4 Unexpected Costs
• Boost College Applications With a Positive Online Presence
• 4 Ways Teens Can Use Summer Vacation for Self-Discovery
• Bumpy road ahead for legal pot in Washington

Washington faces difficulties launching legal pot Posted: 30 Jun 2014 02:05 PM PDT SEATTLE (AP) — Pete O'Neil saw Washington's legalization of marijuana in 2012 as a path to retirement, or at least to his kids' college tuition.

Community College Students: Budget for These 4 Unexpected Costs Posted: 30 Jun 2014 06:30 AM PDT Attending community college is a smart financial decision for many students. Tuition and fees at two-year colleges are often significantly lower than those at four-year universities, and flexible course schedules allow many students to work either full or part time while earning their degree. But tuition is not the only expense to consider when planning for the cost of community college, says Cynthia Grunden, who oversees financial aid at City Colleges of Chicago, a system of seven community colleges. Most colleges use estimates for these costs when awarding financial aid, but community college students typically do not pay room and board directly to their school, unlike many students at four-year universities.

Boost College Applications With a Positive Online Presence Posted: 30 Jun 2014 06:00 AM PDT Increasingly, colleges and universities turn to the Internet while screening applicants -- they check Facebook and Twitter, conduct Google searches and more. While not all schools participate in this practice, and while even those that do may not screen all potential incoming students, you can never be truly certain of who may be searching for your online presence, as well as when and for what purpose. Many high school students believe that the most important thing they can do is scrub their online accounts of all material, including images, posts and videos, that is either embarrassing or paints them in a negative light. Applicants may spend hours combing through their social media accounts and deleting all potentially negative comments, images, posts, tags and so on.

4 Ways Teens Can Use Summer Vacation for Self-Discovery Posted: 30 Jun 2014 05:00 AM PDT For most teens, having fun is the main item on the agenda for summer vacation, not learning. "It can be a really important time of self-discovery," says Stephanie Diozzi, a guidance counselor at Burlington High School in Massachusetts. Not all high school students know what they want to study in college, she says, so they can use the summer to cultivate interests in a low-stress manner. These four activities can allow students to develop those new interests and skills, whether they are spending the summer at grandma's house or in their hometown.

Bumpy road ahead for legal pot in Washington Posted: 30 Jun 2014 03:52 AM PDT SEATTLE (AP) — Pete O'Neil saw Washington's legalization of marijuana in 2012 as a path to retirement, or at least to his kids' college tuition.

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