Archive for August, 2006

Extra-Marital Sex More Likely in Graduate Degree Holders

Forbes Magazine printed a few opinion pieces about the recent findings in several social science journals that two career couprles run a higher risk of having a rocky marriage. Not surprising considering how stressful it can be to juggle life, family, and career. Evidently male breadwinner marriages are most stable. I was surprised by these [ READ MORE ]

Lefty College Grads Earn More Money

Left-handed male college graduates make 26% more than their right-handed counterparts, according to researchers at Lafayette College and Johns Hopkins University. There are “several suggestive and economically and statistically significant results that suggest further support for the notion that handedness matters,” they wrote. “We do not have a theory that reconciles all of these findings.” [ READ MORE ]

Colleges That Change Lives : Evergreen State College

In his book, Colleges That Change Lives, author Loren Pope profiles 40 schools. In that list, The Evergreen State College is one of two public schools talked about. Pope deems only 40 schools in the country worthy of being classified as life-changing, and only two (only two!) are public. That’s just a whole rant I [ READ MORE ]

College Interviews

Interviews are something that can give you a very competitive edge. When you talk to an admissions officer, you immediately become less of a number and more of a person. If the college rep gets a good sense of who you are, what your goals are and what you would like to achieve it becomes [ READ MORE ]