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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 ]

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 ]

Even Healthy Cafeteria Food Is Rejected By Students

Whatever. Teenagers start the day angry. Trying to please them only makes them understand that you are their bitch. Also, they will immediately begin subversive activities, like bringing in Cheetos and Pepsi from the outside< to ingest and to sell at a profit to their slower-on-the-uptake peers. [ 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 ]

Mormons, Trojans, and Sex

Let’s all watch me try to navigate this post. It’s about sex and Trojans and Mormons and how well 141 universities assist their undergrads in traversing the seas of collegiate sex. The odds of me crashing and burning into a twisted pile of political incorrectness and offending everyone on my way down are as excellent as a bloated road-kill raccoon is to finally pop in July--one hard wave of heat moving up from the asphalt and nothing will smell good ever again[ READ MORE ]

College Fund: Not the First Priority

The one thing no one tells new parents: Maybe don’t start shoveling aside the gargantuan pile of cash your kid will need for college. The one thing people never fail to ask new parents, after Girl or boy? and What’s its name?: How’s that college fund going? The You poor bastards is implied[ READ MORE ]

Being Smart Enough To Ask For Help

For the first few years of my college career, I was a cocky little sucker who was convinced that tutors were for the less-evolved, slower-thinking students on campus. Since I was “gifted” and had always been told that I was in possession of above average intelligence, I would of course be able to learn all college coursework instantly, perfectly, and with no assistance. I know, what a dumb b**ch[ READ MORE ]

Sexy Math Equation Geeks

That is not my back. But I totally get why someone would tattoo that on their back. Sexy nerdery? Hells to the yes. [ READ MORE ]