The Non-Traditional Student Blog (BA): big list of links for nontrads

My sites are marked with an asterix (*).

Here are some sites and blogs I like.

Blogs, Sites, and more - for nontraditional students. (Version C)

My Life as a Mature Age Student – this nontraditional student lives in Australia.

http://mylifeasamatureagestudent.blogspot.com/

Rantings of a Middle-Aged College Student

Brandywine works full-time AND goes to school full-time. Wow. She was a history major and a Spanish minor. Now she is going to graduate school.

http://traveling-thru-time.blogspot.com/

The Mature? Student

This student is writing about going back to school after 31 years. She tells about her writing, her classes, and lots more. She has some other nontraditional students in her classes, it sounds like. She lives in Ireland!

http://middleagedundergrad.blogspot.com/

Academic, Hopeful

The thoughts and blog postings of a PhD Candidate. Here is a description of this blog from the site itself: "Observations, obsessions and obscenities from a PhD student at an elite University."

http://academichopeful.blogspot.com/

*The Nontraditional Student website

Find help, support, and links for studying, groups, your FAFSA, and more.

http://www.nontradstudents.com/

*Nontrads on Facebook

Be our next member! Share about school, meet other nontrads, get support and information.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Nontraditional-Students/104788406743

*Nontrads on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/nontrads

*Nontrads on Yahoo: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Non-trads/

This is a group of nontraditional students and people who help them. Find answers to questions, talk about what matters to you, share your nontrad journey.

New to Me medical blogs:
Medicine from the Trenches

Mothers in Medicine

The UMass EM Residency Blog

The Nontrad blogroll at the studentdoctor.net site. (This one has LOTS of blogs listed.)

Blogs and Sites of Nontrad Interest

Deb’s Continuing Education blog

http://adulted.about.com/

There are many stories on this site, advice, links, and just lots of very useful stuff. Deb Peterson is in charge of this site.

Career Alley – this site has lots of job advice, sites, and articles.

http://careeralley.com/

Scholarships and Grants

*My Scholarships and Grants site

http://www.findscholarshipsandgrants.blogspot.com/

Another big list: my ScholarsGrants big list of scholarship links and sites

http://findscholarshipsandgrants.blogspot.com/2011/01/blog-and-site-list-to-have-fun-with.html

GED Stories

Although many of my readers are in college, some are also getting their GED. Here is a site I really like, and comment here a lot. It is called GED stories. Real people write what it is like to go back to school.

http://www.passged.com/stories/

Nontraditional Student Groups

ANTSHE – this is a site for nontraditional students around the world. You can join as a student group or individually. They have a conference every year.

http://www.antshe.org

The Pinnacle and Spire Honor Society - this group is helpful for people who want to reward nontrads in college. Clubs and groups can join too.

Adult Student links

http://www.adultstudent.com/student/slinks.html

Old Pre-Meds for Nontraditional Students (OPM)

http://www.oldpremeds.org/

Mike Grasso's Nontraditional Medical Student site – this site is all about getting into medical school for older nontraditional students.

http://www.nontraditionalmedicalstudent.com/

Study Helps and Finding that Perfect Professor

Son of Citation Machine

http://citationmachine.net/index.php

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