Links to Articles

• Volunteering and its Surprising Benefits
  • Volunteering has four main benefits: connecting you to others, improving your mind and body, advancing your career, and bringing fun and fulfillment to your life.
• 5 Tips for Getting Anyone to Open up
  • Five easy tips are listed to help you get people you don’t know very well to open up.
• Making Good Friends
  • Article about the benefits of friendship, what to look for in a friend, how to be more social, how to meet new people, how to overcome obstacles to making friends, and how to be a better friend.
• 8 Tips for Developing Positive Relationships
  • List of eight thoroughly discussed ways to develop positive relationships with a list of quick tips at the bottom.
• The Keys to Healthy Relationships
  • List of the 9 keys to a healthy relationship, including: self-care, appreciation, and mutual respect.
•  If you want to change your life, change your environment
  • “Real growth happens when we understand whom and what best supports what we want, and then align ourselves with those people and places that do.”

Links to On-Campus Resources

• Center for Global Engagement
• Center for Multicultural Student Services
• Communication Center
• Community Engagement and Volunteer Center
• Forbes Center
• Fraternity and Sorority Life
• JMU Sporting events
• Learning Centers
• Movies at Grafton Stovall Theatre
• Office of Disability Services
• XLabs events

Link to Other Resources

• Podcasts
  • Apple Music, Spotify, Google Play Music, Amazon Music, YouTube, and Facebook are all places you can find interesting podcasts in varying topics.