Archive for June, 2009

Making Enormous Financial Blunders for the Good of Mankind

Loving data means I have to keep loving it even when it tells me stuff I don’t want to know. Jack Hough of SmartMoney has a bundle of charts, graphs, and figures showing the dismal facts that a college education is so effing over-the-top expensive that it’s no longer worth it (financially speaking) to get [ READ MORE ]

25 Edu Blogs Worth Reading

Karen Schweitzer has a guest post up at Learn Me Good, one of my favorite education blogs. The post is a list of 25 Edu Blogs Worth Reading, and Educated Nation is included, which is lovely. Lovelier still is having a new list of education blogs to peruse (because I can’t seem to get enough). [ READ MORE ]

Door Open or Closed?

There is no grey area in classifying me as a door-closed worker bee. I am hard-wired to focus with extreme intensity on tasks and goals and To Do lists. I can’t not be in motion. I’m one of those jackasses who looks forward with unquellable elation to a long-planned and well-deserved vacation, and by Day [ READ MORE ]

Sports Psychologists

As I’ve mentioned previously, I am fascinated by what goes on behind the curtain. I can’t stop thinking about the education, training and knowledge that goes into all the professional actions that play out right in front of me. I’m not nearly as enthralled by the worker and the job they’re doing as I am [ READ MORE ]

The Master List of Free Language Learning Resources

It has never been the best idea to only understand one language (it tends to be a bit limiting with respect to one’s academic, social, and work life). Plus, it’s really good for your brain to make it work a little in order to wrap itself around a new language; it’s like brain yoga and [ READ MORE ]

Job Search Advice For College Graduates

Pep talks should include a concrete bit of take-away advice. Here are two posts and a book by Lindsay Pollack in which she dispenses advice similar to mine (i.e., rarely will forward motion take you in the wrong direction), but she somehow manages to dispense her wisdom in a manner several degrees kinder than mine. [ READ MORE ]

No One Likes A Recession

Yes, the recession sucks. For everyone. Not just for the newly graduated who are spending their first few post-college moments wondering why they spent four years and an obscene amount of money earning a degree that won’t, as it turns out, guarantee them a job so they can pay off those student loans. Reality, as [ READ MORE ]

Non-Profit Microlending Platform UniThrive

In the excellent model of peer-to-peer lending (e.g., Kiva.org), three recent Harvard grads have used their powers for good to create an online microlending platform for the college students who need money and the alumni who can loan it. Joshua Kushner ’08, Nimay Mehta ’09, and Tanuj Parikh ’09 created UniThrive, a non-profit microlending site [ READ MORE ]

Sweaty Mortarboards

It’s June, and the air is awash with the distinct scent of college graduates sweating in their rented caps and gowns. Here’s my positive spin on having the bad luck to be a college graduate looking for your first job when no one is hiring: the pressure’s pretty much off. Getting any job will do, [ READ MORE ]

Calculating Potential

Setting really far over to the side the fact that I think everyone (even the humans I don’t particularly want to hang out, drink coffee, and chat about politics with) is entitled to an affordable college education, here’s a new take on calculating students loan factors. U.S. News and World Report has a piece about [ READ MORE ]