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The Tremendous Time Suck of Relationships

Wondering which field of study will get you the most action with the least amount of foot work? The hard sciences. You heard me. [ READ MORE ]

BookRenter.com

Purchasing spankin’ new copies of textbooks unrelated to your future field is unnecessary. [ 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 ]

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 ]

Checking Accreditation: Show Me You’re Smarter Than a Monkey

I don’t care how high your SAT scores are: if you’re planning to attend any institution of higher education that isn’t blatantly obvious in its accreditation (Stanford, Yale, etc.), and you don’t take the so-easy-a-monkey-could-do-it step of checking your intended school’s official accreditation status, then you’re an idiot[ READ MORE ]

How to Study: A Brief Guide

When the first week of classes have been attended and while you’re still focusing on first chapters, small quizzes, tolerable assignments, and the finer points on your professors’ syllabi, at the very least please skim this: How to Study: A Brief Guide[ READ MORE ]

Plagiarism Confuses the Information Generation

Plagiarism, for those of you who missed that day in class, is when you take someone else’s work and falsely claim it as your own. It’s very bad, and it makes you look like an ass@$%*[ READ MORE ]

Labor Force Shifts Toward Health

The Baby Boomers are getting old(er). Anyone working in the healthcare industry will have an excellent chance to maintain their jobs, careers, and mortgage payments despite the economic downturn. [ READ MORE ]

Getting a Visual on Obama’s Budget Cuts

And by perspective I mean finally understanding just how much money this country requires to survive, and how little Obama has actuallyremoved[ 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 ]