Archive for February, 2008

One Last Mommy Bit

I know this has been The Week of the Mommy, but here’s one more bit to ponder and then I promise to be done. This article lays out nicely how difficult it is to find work-life balance. It’s important for melting down parents to read about how everyone else is having an out-of-control moment/day/week/life. Because [ READ MORE ]

Cool Math

This is cool. Possibly only if you’re a math dork like me… Posted by Alexa Harrington[ READ MORE ]

Survival Minus the Spoon

For the first few years of my college career, I was a cocky little sucker who was convinced that tutors were for the less-evolved, slower-thinking students on campus. Since I was “gifted” and had always been told that I was in possession of above average intelligence, I would of course be able to learn all [ READ MORE ]

Perfection or Having a Life

This past post ties in with the mommy vein as well, but more from a student perspective. Jon Morrow from On Moneymaking just did a guest post on Brazen Careerist about why he regrets getting straight A’s in college. He lays out pretty clearly what he did, what he got out of it, and why [ READ MORE ]

Moms Re-Starting Careers

I’m re-posting this as it goes along nicely with my previous article regarding moms and career decisions. Examining the Trend of College-Educated Women Leaving the Workforce I love research done by people who’ve heard a general, society-wide rumor and just have to know whether or not it’s based in fact. Sylvia Ann Hewlett (author of [ READ MORE ]

The Mommy Quandary

Possibly it’s just the negative effects of the Seattle winter doldrums, but I’ve noticed a large number of female parental units freaking out about careers lately. The at-home moms think they should be working, and the career-having moms think they should be home making play dough from scratch. It seems as though no mom is [ READ MORE ]

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

  • February 6th, 2008
  • Posted in College

I like to think of myself as an open-minded girl. I embrace non-traditional teaching methods (not literally, duh). But I have pondered the following Guardian UK article to death (pun lacking tact) and I just can’t find even a smidgen of a golden educational thread in what appears to be a gigantic vat of WTF?! [ READ MORE ]

Freshman Norms Survey

UCLA does an annual survey of incoming American undergrads. The CIRP Freshman Survey is part of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) and is administered by the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. The 2007 freshman norms are based on the responses of 272,036 first-time, full-time students at [ READ MORE ]