Archive for May, 2009

Will Take Notes For Beer Money

As an undergrad, I got really good at taking notes. However, I took them according to my own odd little system, and I’m not sure they would have been of any use to someone else. Now I can be less sad about missing out on the ShareNotes.com concept, wherein college students take notes, upload them, [ READ MORE ]

“If Movie Theatres Were Like Schools…”

Paul Bogush, the teacher with the Blogush blog, has a funny list up of all the things we could expect If Movie Theatres Were Like Schools. The ones with asterisks were thought up by his students. If movie theatres were like schools… Everyone would sit in alphabetical order. If you laughed at the car crash [ READ MORE ]

How-To Guides for Flying by the Seat of Your Pants (and Sticking the Landing)

It takes a certain amount of ballsiness to quit your safely cubicled nine-to-fiver and strike out on your own as the freelancer you’ve always dreamed of being. Sometimes one’s bravery can get an ass-kicking boost by being unexpectedly down-sized. Whether you’ve decided to flee cubeville voluntarily, or have had the decision made for you by [ READ MORE ]

“Hey College: Your Days Are Numbered”

Jason Seiden has written a compelling piece about the concept of college education as we know it, and the vision he has for its future (hint: things are not going to stay the same). I’m an old-fashioned, pen-and-paper loving girl who adores education in all of its forms, and I’m especially enamored of the halcyon [ READ MORE ]

“Self-Diagnosing Swine Flu Right Before Finals Blues”

Via EphBlog, I was alerted several months back to Williams College freshman, Juliana Stone, and the weekly column she writes for a paper back home in L.A. about her first year away at college. She’s effing funny (if she’s a Williams student, should I be calling her ephing funny?), in a dry, cranky sort of [ READ MORE ]

Financial Literacy For Graduates

The Frugal Duchess has a guest post from Consumer Credit Counseling Service up about graduating seniors and the financial wisdom it behooves them to know. Learn it. Know it. Live it. (Or there will be no home-owning in your future and your student loan debt will pale in comparison to your credit card debt and [ READ MORE ]

AllMyFaves.com Adds New Education Page

AllMyFaves just added an Education page to their site. There’s the expected flurry of standard white-bread stuff, but they also have some decent lists to get you started in your quest for educational info. I particularly enjoyed the link collections for Teachers, Video, Science, History, Math, Homeschool, Green, Art, Books, Dictionaries, Earth, and Encyclopedia. It’s [ READ MORE ]

University of Washington’s Online Education Options

In today’s Daily, the University of Washington’s campus paper, there’s an opinion piece that makes some persuasive arguments for increasing the online-ness of UW’s two online learning options, the College of Engineering’s EDGE Program and UW Online Learning. While the EDGE Program—which was kicking online education ass before online education was cool (since 1984, thank [ READ MORE ]

“The Curse of the Class of 2009″

Reading this article in the Wall Street Journal—while being informed fully of the situation —will make you want to beat your head against a wall. The job market has pretty well reached mythical status for recent college graduates; the “job market” was a place other generations did some minimal step-following in order to slip their [ READ MORE ]

UA’s Two New Dual-Degree Engineering and MBA Programs

Most folks, when faced with a sucky economy, panic in the face of economic downturns. There are some, however, who come up with an innovative twist and offer an elegant solution to a problem. The University of Alabama is now offering a combined engineering and MBA graduate degree program, so students can multi-task their little [ READ MORE ]