Banks and Credit Unions UGA
Michelle Balaun2020-05-28T13:14:25-04:00Many Places to Grab Money, Banks Galore! Leaving for college comes with so many new things, but knowing your student will be handling their own money ca [...]
Tax Time
Michelle Balaun2020-07-30T13:11:49-04:00Tax Time is Always Right Around the Corner! Taxes, we have to admit, are decidedly not fun but ARE necessary. Whether you are preparing your return or h [...]
UGA Coronavirus Updates
Michelle Balaun2020-09-10T11:49:47-04:00Updates on Latest Plans Seems like finding the right updates in this unusual time is tricky. I don’t think I have ever used the word unprecedented as mu [...]
Dress for Success for Your Job
Michelle Balaun2020-09-21T20:24:42-04:00Time to Step Up Your Outfit, Success Is Waiting! Long before graduation, your student should be attending both career and internship fairs to achieve su [...]
G-Day Spring Game Go Dawgs
Michelle Balaun2020-10-22T12:01:36-04:00Who Let the Dawgs Out? Yes, it’s spring, and yes we mean football. It’s crazy I know, but the G-Day game is one of the most highly anticipated events of [...]
Being Thrifty While at College
Michelle Balaun2020-08-14T10:52:30-04:00When You Need to Stay on Budget, Be Thrifty! Before coming to college, I knew I needed an updated wardrobe because being trendy and cute was important t [...]
Find an Internship
Michelle Balaun2020-08-31T22:33:13-04:00Learn About Your Options, Find an Internship I have three children, but only one is college age, and she just finished up her freshman year at UGA. When [...]
Taking the Campus Tour at UGA
Michelle Balaun2020-11-05T11:21:54-05:00A Tour Can Help You Make Your College Decision Taking a campus tour is an essential step to help your students decide where they will make their home fo [...]
Graduation at UGA, Here’s How To Do It!
Michelle Balaun2020-10-29T13:33:21-04:00Graduation is here already! Remember when your Dawg was an incoming freshman and now, within a few months, graduation! They will be graduating and looki [...]
Storage UGA, Where Does The Stuff Go?
Michelle Balaun2020-08-14T10:46:30-04:00Where Will They Put All Their Stuff? Can you put it in storage? Oh, PLEEEASE can you put it in storage?? How will you manage storage? It’s that time bet [...]
Searching for Scholarships
Michelle Balaun2020-08-14T13:27:35-04:00Scholarships can help pay for college! Now that they have been accepted into UGA, the idea of actually paying for college looms overhead and scholarship [...]
Staying at UGA for Thanksgiving
Michelle Balaun2020-09-01T17:46:12-04:00Make it a Friendsgiving Managing Thanksgiving plans is always a challenge. Although UGA is officially closed and classes are canceled from November 25th [...]
Choosing or Changing Your Major
Michelle Balaun2020-05-21T11:52:11-04:00Find Your Perfect Major Make sure that your major, minor, certificate, and/or area of emphasis suits you, your career goals, and interests, The Universi [...]
Spring Sports, Are You Ready?
Michelle Balaun2020-08-14T10:46:58-04:00So Many Spring Sports, So Little Spring! Spring is sports time too. After an always phenomenal football season for the Dawgs, fans tend to shift their f [...]
Supervise an Easy Budget for Your College Student
Michelle Balaun2020-10-21T16:15:00-04:00This is a budget lesson that will serve you in the future! Some students really do keep to a budget. Well, sort of. I admit, it was hard telling my daug [...]
The Benefits of Joining the UGA Alumni Association
Michelle Balaun2020-09-17T16:23:28-04:00Alumni Networking, Perks, and More… Before you know it, you are walking across the stage at graduation and, with that last step, you are an official UGA [...]
The Legend, Myths & Traditions
Michelle Balaun2020-08-14T12:58:54-04:00The Dawg Legend Every Dawg should know the legend. The University of Georgia, like others, has its own share of legends, myths, and traditions that are [...]
Celebrate Easter or Passover
Michelle Balaun2020-07-03T14:36:32-04:00Where To Go To Celebrate Celebrate your spring holiday. One of the more difficult moments of having our college kids away at school is missing them on t [...]
Smaller School first, then UGA
Michelle Balaun2020-05-21T12:06:58-04:00UNG First - Then Transfer to UGA Some times it makes more sense to first go to a smaller school, for many different reasons, some students prefer to sta [...]
21 and Oh So Fun
Michelle Balaun2020-09-29T14:28:05-04:0021 and an official adult now! Have fun! As each year ticked off, you waited for the fun of being ‘legal’! And now you made it. 21 is such a fun age, esp [...]
The Stress of College
Michelle Balaun2020-05-05T12:40:52-04:00Helping Students Manage Their Stress One of my biggest worries, when my kids left for college, was would they be able to handle the stress of college li [...]
Get to Know The Ramsey Center
Michelle Balaun2020-10-02T11:09:50-04:00Students Favorite Place to Workout - the Ramsey Center The Ramsey Center at UGA is located at 330 River Rd, Athens, GA, 30602 and is a free recreational [...]
Bulldog Red and Arch Black
Michelle Balaun2020-10-22T12:04:42-04:00Putting Together Great Red and Black Dawg Outfits I love going to Dawg football games- there is nothing like a game day. I’m all about the Red and Black [...]
It’s All About the Delivery at UGA
Michelle Balaun2020-09-21T14:59:32-04:00Delivery is the way To Go! Taking time away from studying can be the difference between dinner or a bag of chips and a soda. Sometimes it pays to turn t [...]
Technology Needs
Michelle Balaun2020-08-07T13:42:42-04:00Check Out The Technology You Get for Free! HaveUHeard that Microsoft Office 365 technology is free for all enrolled UGA students? And it’s free for up t [...]
Finding a Roommate at UGA
Michelle Balaun2020-05-05T13:35:13-04:00Adjusting to shared living with a roommate. When I went to school, there was no way to find out who my roommate was until the day I got to school. The [...]
Where Will They Live – Managing the Gap
Michelle Balaun2023-05-08T16:03:30-04:00Managing the Gap Although it seems like you just moved your student into their dorms, now comes the weird in-between gap time from May to August, where [...]
FAFSA – all the details you need!
Michelle Balaun2020-10-02T10:26:51-04:00First Applicants Find Substantial Assets, FAFSA of course! First Applicants Find Substantial Assets, of course! FAFSA is the national Free Application f [...]
The ABC’s of a 529 Plan
Michelle Balaun2020-07-30T14:34:13-04:00What does 529 Pay For? If this is your first time paying for college, I bet you have 529 questions! When you decided to have kids, I would bet your firs [...]
Parking Your Car at UGA
Michelle Balaun2020-08-14T10:48:08-04:00Get the Last Parking Spot! When getting ready to send your student off to UGA, the decision of should they bring their car to school, and then what to d [...]
Birthright Israel
Michelle Balaun2020-06-08T17:24:33-04:00Young Jewish Adults Israel Trip What exactly is Birthright Israel? Birthright Israel began in 1999 with a bold idea—offering a free, life-changing trip [...]
Food for Thought, The UGA Pantry Helps
Michelle Balaun2020-07-01T15:01:09-04:00No Student Hungry Much like the national campaign No Kid Hungry®, there are many students at colleges throughout the United States that are barely getti [...]
Student Accessibility Services at UGA
Michelle Balaun2020-07-30T14:36:16-04:00Accessibility Accommodations for all Students For students with a disability, the Disability Resource Center can help. Giving all students accessibility [...]
Namast’ay Yoga In and Around UGA
Michelle Balaun2020-10-06T14:36:50-04:00Finding your inner yoga peace. Ahhhhh, one of my favorite things to do, and by far the best way to get my head cleared is to practice yoga. Very few thi [...]
Experiential Learning Credit
Michelle Balaun2020-07-30T14:37:55-04:00Students Need to Complete this Credit In 2016, the University of Georgia created a new requirement that makes all students graduate with an “Experientia [...]
Volunteering Turns Your Compassion Into Action
Michelle Balaun2020-07-30T14:38:55-04:00Volunteering with passion is key. Volunteering truly changes a person. There is so much to gain from helping others and it speaks to your character as w [...]
FreshCo – Summer Classes at UGA
Michelle Balaun2020-05-12T13:27:48-04:00UGA’s Freshman College Summer Experience UGA offers a “Freshman College Summer Experience”, also known as FreshCo, which is a four-week session in the s [...]
Preparing for Grad School Exams
Michelle Balaun2021-05-07T13:06:22-04:00More exams, the fun keeps going! More exams? But wait there's more... Time flies when you’re having fun! It wasn’t until college that I realized how tru [...]
Controversial Speakers UGA
Michelle Balaun2020-06-10T13:29:31-04:00Is Free Expression Controversial? UGA, like most colleges, wants students to seek knowledge, debate ideas, and form opinions some may be controversial. [...]
Cultural Resources for Hispanic-Latino Students
Michelle Balaun2020-08-27T12:20:38-04:00Support, Empowerment, and Connection for Hispanic-Latino Students Campus diversity amongst students has grown considerably over the years and colleges v [...]
Weekend with Dad
Michelle Balaun2020-10-27T09:34:00-04:00The Weekend, officially, unofficial for Father. Dad’s weekend isn’t exactly official at UGA, meaning that there isn’t one specific weekend that it is ca [...]
Care Packages for UGA Students
Michelle Balaun2020-09-29T14:28:25-04:00Who doesn’t enjoy getting a package delivered? We know you really care, you care a lot about your student and want them to be happy. Whether it is for a [...]
Diversity and Inclusion for LGBTQ College Students
Michelle Balaun2020-07-08T12:10:03-04:00LGBTQ Campus Support and Resources College can be challenging for all students which is why finding ways to make connections with others who identify si [...]
Campus Resources for Students of Color
Michelle Balaun2020-07-30T14:41:38-04:00Campus Guide to Resources for Multicultural Students The University of Georgia is committed to the inclusion of BIPOC students (Black and Indigenous Peo [...]