Archive for October, 2008

“Wobbly Time For College Tuition”

Does anyone else adore the Catch-22 of needing a college education in order to be more marketable in a crappy economy, but more and more people aren’t able to afford said education because the economy is crappy and budget cuts are rampant and it’s more difficult to get a good student loan? Perhaps we could [ READ MORE ]

Increasing Marketable Skills

Ah, the economy. I’ve always assumed that most humans of legal money-earning age have three thought-topics on more or less constant rotation through their minds: food, sex, and money. Those are all directly related to survival, so it makes sense that we’d be hyper-focused on them. And yet, when the media and the government types [ READ MORE ]

How To (Not) Screw Up The College Apps

Here’s another you’d-best-take-note list of screw-ups high school students make when filling out their college applications. There are thirty-six ways to put a dent in your future on this one. Let’s be careful out there, kiddos. Posted by Alexa Harrington illustration: Katy Lemar[ READ MORE ]

It’s Like Printing Money

The economy is tanking (or so they keep telling us), and that’s starting to make the the lives of college students everywhere more pinched and frowny and less chipper and skippy. Working while taking a full course load just sucks, even on a good day. Alan Bradford at Geek Stew has some excellent pointers for [ READ MORE ]

The Economy and Higher Education

According to this article in the CS Monitor, freaking out about the economy is causing prospective college students (and their bill-footing parents) to reconsider where (and if) they should do their matriculating. Out of 2,500 high school seniors surveyed by MeritAid.com, almost 60 percent were planning on less prestigious higher education venues for purely frugal [ READ MORE ]

Informal Education

To state the obvious: Education is not just the formal classroom/teacher/textbook parts of one’s life. There’s also the being out in the world part, away from homework and exams, and continuing to deposit new information and ideas in one’s head. That’s an important phase, because unless you’ve managed to figure out how to get paid [ READ MORE ]

Avoiding Six Common College Application Slip-Ups

Allen Grove, the college admissions blogger at About.com, spoke with Jeremy Spencer, the Director of Admissions at Alfred University about the six most common blunders of college applicants and how not to make those very same mistakes, thereby reducing your future to a smoking pile of wreckage heaped at your sad, not-going-to-college feet. It’s application [ READ MORE ]

Research and Study Tools For College Students

Regardless of what sort of term system your school utilizes, at this point every college student in the land is up to their eyebrows in the hard damn work portion of their college education. Here’s a list of some of the tools that have elicited the most enthusiastic responses from college students around the blogosphere, [ READ MORE ]

Current Reading List

I have a large stack of books with an education bent going right now. Must be the crisp autumn weather that’s triggering my current brain-cravings for non-fiction that’s educational on all levels. They are all interesting (especially to education junkies/geeks like me) and worth reading if you’re into that sort of thing. Stuck in the [ READ MORE ]

Real Education

I can’t stop re-reading this interview in the NY Times Magazine. Deborah Solomon interviews Charles Murray about his new book, “Real Education,” and it’s like some morbidly funny train wreck and I can’t not look. Some choice excerpts: Although attending college has long been a staple of the American dream, you argue in your new [ READ MORE ]