College courses are structured very differently from my classes in high school. The good news is that many of the same study skills you develop in high school work just as well for college.

Young adults, struggling with student loans and small salaries, often can’t afford to write checks to their favorite causes. So instead of—or in addition to—donating money, a number of people in their 20s and early 30s are giving back to their communities and favored causes by donating time.

Eight years ago, Wikipedia began with the goal of providing everyone in the world free access to “the sum of all human knowledge.” Today, the online encyclopedia is the fifth-most-popular Web site in the world, with some 325 million monthly visitors. ...

After seven semesters, choosing a handful of courses from a catalog of over 2,000 options hasn’t gotten any easier. Still, I do have a few tried-and-true strategies that have found me more wonderful classes than duds, at least so far.

The Web can be a mean-spirited place. But when consumers write online reviews, they tend to be exceedingly polite: The average grade for things online is about 4.3 stars out of five. People like Jonas Luster are trying to introduce a little negativity.

We asked six experts which 10 cities will emerge as the hottest, hippest destinations for highly mobile, educated workers in their 20s when the U.S. economy gets moving again.

Students are borrowing dramatically more to pay for college, a trend that has wide-ranging implications for a generation of young people.

The site fills an important need on campus, but it’s no substitute for friendship

Some wonder how much work hyper-socializing students or employees can really accomplish if they are holding multiple conversations with friends via text-messaging, or are obsessively checking Facebook.

How heavily should you weigh a college’s prestige? Should you take the size of its student body into account? What about cost? Find out what matters—and what doesn’t—as you go through yourcollege search. More...