Decorating your college crib isn’t rocket science, after all. But it is a chance to show off your personal taste and style—spunky, sporty or traditional.

Virginia is home to 46 residential colleges where students can live on or off-campus. A handful of schools that offer four-year and graduate degrees, however, do not have on-campus housing.

Decorating your college crib isn’t rocket science, after all. But it is a chance to show off your personal taste and style—spunky, sporty or traditional.

At college, you can learn about global affairs, community service and reducing energy usage, as well as how to study, work as a group and get along with others but all that learning may not take place in the classroom. Many of today’s college students are learning these concepts by living in specialized and themed housing on campuses across the nation.

At eBay-hosted Half.com, the company’s name is a humble understatement. The online bookseller, and scores of similar Internet book wholesalers, have built a quiet groundswell among frugal college students seeking ways to stretch their dollars. These services provide college textbooks at pennies on the dollar sometimes of the cost at on-campus bookstores. The migration toward discount online booksellers has caught the attention of college bookstores.