Archive for the ‘ Life ’ Category

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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

Dating a Colleague When Tenure Is Hanging In the Balance

Humans are animals, and will do anything to survive and continue the species: food, sex (love), and survival, that’s all we need and are instinctively hell-bent of the pursuit of those goals. As far as I’ve seen, only tenure can veer an otherwise intelligent human animal away from food, sex and survival[ READ MORE ]

How To Avoid Graduating College Summa Cum Debt

Her main piece of advice is to flat out not head off to college at all “unless or until you can afford it.” Not the standard higher education version of the American Dream. Usually everyone’s telling young adults to do whatever they and their parents can in order to acquire a college diploma, regardless of how many decades beyond graduation both parties will be swimming in debt[ READ MORE ]

Initial College Attendance of Low-Income Young Adults

The Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) has a report out that shows the colleges low-income students head for first tend to be for-profit schools. That particular population is underrepresented in four-year public and private colleges, and overrepresented in the for-profit schools. All of which is not new, but it does mean fairness in higher education has still not been achieved[ READ MORE ]

Tax Breaks for Higher Education

Forbes contributor Robert W. Wood gives advice about which forms of higher education qualify for tax breaks[ READ MORE ]

Moving On After An Epic Fail

Along the lines of my previous post regarding the much abhorred Epic Fail, Emily Chapman at Hack College wrote a piece advising one to Refuse to Dwell, Move On, Kick Ass. Well put[ READ MORE ]