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Would You Want to Be a Teacher?

Plus, the post-apocalyptic landscape that is public education today isn’t really my style. I prefer my apocalypses (apocalypsi?) nuclear flavored[ READ MORE ]

Big Science News Round-Up for 2010

  • January 3rd, 2011
  • Posted in Reading

Catch yourself up on all the big science news of 2010 with this round-up from Nature. I’d started losing track of all the natural disasters; now I’ve got them all straight. Posted by Alexa Harrington[ READ MORE ]

Frugal Gift Giving For Any Time Of Year

College students have the advantage: You’ve been starving for lots and lots of semesters and know how to work the gently-used and regifted items into glorious gifts, all wrapped up in shiny paper (or the Sunday comics, to be more realistic)[ READ MORE ]

Equality In the Public School System (Or the Lack Thereof)

Two great reads from the Oxford University Press (if you’re an education nerd like me): Five Miles Away, A World Apart[link and italics] by James E. Ryan, and In Brown’s Wake[link, italics] by Martha Minow. [ 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 ]

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 ]

Problem Solving 101

Being ill-equipped for the solving of the problems turns out to be somewhat of an issue in the real world[ READ MORE ]

100 Awesome Business Blogs

It’s like a goldmine of information for MBA do-it-yourselfers. [ 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 ]