Archive for September, 2010

Job Search Advice: What Your Prospective Boss Might Be Looking For

Students of life have it harder, especially if they’ve recently graduated into this here awesomely effed-up economic recession. No more dining hall access, which, as it turns out, is a hell of a lot worse than the food they serve[ READ MORE ]

Feds Will Require Better Numbers From For-Profit Colleges

Starting in July 2011, for-profit schools, like DeVry and Phoenix, will be required to tell prospective students statistical facts concerning the school’s track records in two specific areas: Graduation rates and post-graduation job placement rates. [ READ MORE ]

Moving the Dissertation Mountain One Bucketful at a Time (Re-Post)

Author’s Note: I’ve re-posted this article for your perusal as I am on vacation. Big projects, like term papers or dissertations or what have you, really freak people out. Sometimes I try to give other people advice about getting s**t done. They never appreciate hearing my exquisitely condensed single line of wisdom, so sharp it [ READ MORE ]

Intense and Intents and Intensive Purposes (Re-Post)

Author’s Note: I’ve re-posted this article for your reading pleasure as I am on vacation. Kids who grow up with no television in their homes either (a) make friends quick with a kid whose family worships the ‘mote, or (b) they read a lot. My utter lack of pop culture references from the mid-seventies through [ READ MORE ]

I Live In A Van Down By Duke University (Re-Post)

Author’s Note: I’ve re-posted this article for your reading pleasure as I am on vacation. Duke University grad student Ken Ilgunas wrote a sublime piece in Salon.com about his own grand social experiment: He currently (until someone busts him after reading his article) lives in his van in a campus parking lot. Ilgunas went the [ READ MORE ]

Academic Freedom (Re-Post)

Author’s Note: I’ve re-posted this article for your reading pleasure while I’m on vacation. The notion most of us have when thinking about the University (read that with a deep and important voice, please) is of a well-architectured limbo-land full of higher thought, in-depth learning, and forward motion steeped nicely in tradition. The University isn’t [ READ MORE ]

Super Scientific Description (Re-Post)

Author’s Note: I’ve re-posted this article for your reading pleasure while I’m on vacation. I love it when highly educated, intelligent, and knowledgeable scientists find something new that’s so damn cool, the only thing they can come up with to say is, “It’s a big weird looking freaky thing.” Ichthyologist Doug Long of the California [ READ MORE ]

Literacy: We’ve Still Got It (Re-Post)

I was never concerned as to whether or not today’s school-age kids were going to be considered fully functioning adults someday; anyone who can seemingly mind-meld with a (or a cell phone or anything gizmo-ish), understand it, and make it work is probably going to do just fine once they’re let loose on the world[ READ MORE ]

Six Revisions’ Tutorial on Saving Images for the Web

Check out Six Revisions’ Comprehensive Guide to Saving Images for the Web[ READ MORE ]

14 Ways To Save Green While Increasing Greenness

Arjun Muralidharan, aka the Productive Student, has a list of 14 ways college students can strive for greenness on Earth. You’ll want to do them all to slow the destruction of the planet, but you’ll actually do them to save yourself some coinage[ READ MORE ]