Archive for the ‘ College ’ Category

Final Post

  • January 10th, 2012
  • Posted in College

After over 5 years, it's time to lay this blog to rest. I haven't counted how many hundreds of posts I've written, but I'm pretty sure the final number is nicely sized. Anyone wishing to communicate in the future can use this secret code: alexaharrington@gmail.com. I've enjoyed the ride, people. Here's my favorite post of all time, so I can go out happy[ READ MORE ]

College Officials Learn About Applicants Via Facebook

  • January 10th, 2012
  • Posted in College

One hopes that prospective college students and hopeful job applicants will have pre-emptively removed any and all unsavory material from their Facebook and MySpace pages prior to the application processes. One hopes. Sometimes this hope is in vain. Maybe it’s the new Darwinism: all the SAT Prep courses and higher education in the world can’t [ READ MORE ]

Surrounded By Idiotic Sheep

  • January 10th, 2012
  • Posted in College

Not to say that all other humans are sheep (less than intelligent, with a herd-like mentality), but lately I’ve found myself muttering “I’m surrounded by idiots!” whenever I’m awed, yet again, by the incapability other humans seem to have to move forward, make simple decisions, follow directions, or to be independent thinkers. And I’m not [ READ MORE ]

The Life Of A Freelance Photographer

  • January 5th, 2012
  • Posted in College

The life of a freelance photographer sounds delicious: travel the world, explore everything your little heart desires, hone your craft, equipment and water being the heaviest—and practically the only—items you’ve got to carry around. Freedom, time to think, the chance to become intensely focused on one person, place, or thing for as long as you [ READ MORE ]

Poetic Memorization

Hilarious bit about what happens when students are made to memorize great poetical works and can recite them at will for life, even when drunk and wandering the streets in the dead of night. [ READ MORE ]

The 10 Most Expensive Public Medical Schools For In-State Students

If you’ve read this blog for more than a few months, then you know where I come down on the College Rankings issue. It’s crap, and I don’t like it. You can read the full, venomous fury in the Previous Posts list below. For now, here’s one rankings list that is based on tuition costs [ READ MORE ]

College Student Job Search Advice

There’s a great series of student job search[link get real fast] posts up at Phil’s Career Blog. The articles hit on three different students, their respective education paths, and how each one tends to move through the world. [ READ MORE ]

This Is Why College Costs So Much

What has risen 400% in 25 years? Not housing prices in San Francisco, but that’s an excellent guess. Nope, it’s college tuition. That one-liner factoid takes me out at the knees and makes me want to hurl. [ READ MORE ]

Finding the Good at Penn State

Wiley comes at the problem trying to figure out what it means to be at Penn State and how to go about finding the amazingness that is still Penn State[ READ MORE ]

Mythbusters’ Cannonball Fiasco

I'm quite certain that the math was checked, just so we’re all clear on the fact that one flukey screw up among hundreds of potential fails does not take down one of the best television shows of all time[ READ MORE ]