Archive for October, 2008

College Admissions Testing: For and Against

Today’s USA Today has a big College Admissions Testing throwdown in the Op-Ed section. The USA Today folks are for keeping the testing around until there’s a better way to measure the rigor of high school coursework from one school to the next (an ‘A’ in a tough course at a tough school is different [ READ MORE ]

Learning To Embrace The Suck

Regardless of who you are or what life situation you find yourself in the midst of, there are bound to be some misery-infested moments. School, work, and just plain day-to-day life have wretched bits that bring on the urge to shake your fist at the sky and demand some answers. If every day, all day [ READ MORE ]

Barry Joseph’s Career Path

Barry Joseph writes in the Huffington Post about his fascinating career path from Social Work school drop-out to self-taught techie geek to social reformer. He now directs a non-profit program “that uses the latest digital media to support urban youth to become global citizens and community leaders.” Mr. Joseph doesn’t mention it in his article, [ READ MORE ]

Taking Your Personality Into Account When Making Major Decisions

It seems so obvious that basing decisions about college majors and careers on one’s personality would save the individual in question much angst, time, energy, tuition and frustration. And yet college students tend to choose their major according to whatever career path they pulled out of their asses while sitting (a) at the dinner table, [ READ MORE ]

The Education Of Steve Bogucki

I wrote previously about Steve Bogucki (Educated Soldier) and his Law School vs. Special Forces quandary. He recently wrote a powerful post about his decision to quit (his term) Special Forces training and to continue with his higher education goals. He explains his thoughts on the topic and his reasoning, all of which are interesting [ READ MORE ]