Archive for May, 2010

One Must Always Be Learning

We know that you can’t be who you really are in someone else’s language[ READ MORE ]

Life After Grad School: Getting From A to B

Graduate school, should it have escaped everyone’s notice, prepares no one for reality. One learns insanely vast oceans of information, but this just means that the M-Something or the PhD in question just knows a lot of stuff[ READ MORE ]

Colbert’s Wickedly True Take on the SATs

This is what I’ve been saying! Although, Mr. Colbert does it ever so much better. [ READ MORE ]

CO-Fund.org Has Officially Launched

Brown University undergrads using their powers for good: using the pay-it-forward concept to assist college students with higher education fundage while decreasing (and hopefully obsolete-ing) the need for Banks and their Machiavellian student loan schemes[ READ MORE ]

MBA Job Market: Outlook and Advice

In the interest of acquiring the motivational energy required for pursuing a business career in this economy, I would advise first nailing down the minimum wage job most capable of making you loathe yourself and every sunrise you witness. [ READ MORE ]

Star Trek: Teaching Cultural Anthropology and Linguistics

And I find it hard to believe that any other series has inspired for-credit college courses in cultural anthropology and linguistics, including: “Xenolinguistics: The Anthropology of Alien Language.” [ READ MORE ]

Michael Wesch: TED Talk On Media and Teaching Students to Become Knowledge-Able

Watch it. It takes about 15 minutes; that’s less time than it takes to drink a cup of coffee. And no way one cup of caffeine will blow your mind like Michael Wesch can[ READ MORE ]

Spring Balance

This may help to put it all in perspective for any higher-education seekers and providers who may be having a difficult time embracing Spring and letting go ever so slightly[ READ MORE ]