Archive for May, 2007

Teachers Are Paid More Than Accountants + Civil Engineers

Everyone knows teachers aren’t paid enough, but apparently they make more than architects, accountants, medical scientists and engineers. Who knew? From All Education Schools, Teacher Salary Secrets Revealed: According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), average teacher salaries for K-12 positions range from a median of $47,040 a year for kindergarten teachers to [ READ MORE ]

Top 10 Colleges Graduating Students Who Later Earn PhDs

Undergrad Origins Of PhDs Despite Reed College’s possible letter-writing inadequacy, they kick ass at molding their undergrads for PhD-hood. Their website has a very shiny table that shows the top 10 schools in the nation where PhD recipients earned their baccalaureate degree. The table tracks a decent interval, from 1975 to 2004. It’s interesting to [ READ MORE ]

The Coolest College Application Essay Ever

No one can back up “coolest” with facts, but I stand by my statement nonetheless. The non-sheep in me wanted so much for it to have been an actual college admissions essay. Alas, I can find nothing to back that up. The Urban Myth maintains that Hugh Gallagher wrote the infamous essay in 1990 when [ READ MORE ]

College Rejection Therapy

Sometimes crappy life moments can be funny. Especially if they have to be or you’ll risk becoming catatonic. High school seniors in their San Francisco prep school psychology courses figured out a way to deal therapeutically with their collection of college rejection letters. They turned it into a competition. I would imagine that the most [ READ MORE ]

Intern Memo

Good News for College Interns Summer is upon us: the season of the intern. Thousands of eager college students and some overly aggressive high schoolers will flock to New York, DC, and maybe some other cities to surf the web for eight hours a day, attend some meetings, and hopefully learn a trade. Though there [ READ MORE ]

So Long Gilmore Girls

Last week, TV’s favorite college girl, Lorelai “Rory” Gilmore (did you know that was her full name?) graduated from Yale University (the show couldn’t help but mention “Yale” every other line). This week, the show ends it’s seven year run. The show’s snappy dialogue, loaded with pop culture references and allusions to indie music, politics, [ READ MORE ]

Saving the Planet is a Solid Career Choice

I wrote a while back about Arizona State University’s new degree programs in Sustainability. When I first read about it, I was just happy that there was a glimmer of hope shining through the fog of global warming and pollution. My logic was that if higher education was seeing this as a viable degree, then [ READ MORE ]

Curbing Flying Tortilla Injuries on Graduation Day

Commencement Day Tossing Traditions The scene of hundreds of jubilant graduates tossing their black mortarboards into the air upon commencement is a quintessential graduation symbol. Many colleges and universities including the U.S. Naval Academy, sanction the practice, however there is a trend toward banning the tossing of anything into the air. Injuries from flying tortillas [ READ MORE ]

Gap Year For Grown-Ups

Avoiding Career Burn Out Just as college students can take a gap year with no major repercussions to their professional life, many working adults are taking a career break / gap year and coming back to their job refreshed. Anyone not currently in the matriculation phase of their lives (usually referred to as adults) have [ READ MORE ]

Acceptance

I accept none of this. I’ve been doing a lot of ranting and raving, bitching and moaning about the college admissions insanity in this country. If I could laugh about it I’d feel better. Maybe this book will help. I love that someone wrote a book satirizing the bizarreness that is the college admissions process [ READ MORE ]