While students are soaking up the summer sun and completing internships, the staff at Residential Life is hard at work preparing for the upcoming semester.

You may have heard the phrase tabula rasa, but you face a more literal blank slate each year when you arrive for school in the fall: a spare room with clean white walls, a bed, a desk, a bookshelf or desk hutch, and a dresser. Fuse challenged IC students to show us how they transformed their dorm rooms, and we set out to find the best. Take a look at our dorm contest winners and try out these useful tips!

While hitting it off with a great professor and acing that paper may be important to your college career, one of the most vital -- and often nerve-racking -- aspects of making the most of your college years is finding your place among friends.

Just a month after moving to Ithaca, first-year students are settling in, making friends, and calling Ithaca home. Watch our video of students moving in at Ithaca College, and read how one freshman is doing as she begins to settle into college life. 

You can learn about sustainability anywhere, but at IC you can actually live it!

Housed in Terrace 2, the Sustainably Conscious Living Community is a living and learning environment open to all students with an interest in improving their relationship with the environment, society, and economy.

Promoting sustainable living at a Campus Sustainability Day...