Archive for the ‘ Miscellaneous ’ Category

Schools of Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs Are H-O-T If you have a yen to make a dollar (holy bad joke, Batman) by joining the entrepreneurial ranks (the badness of that is still hurting me), then you are in luck, my friend. Being young and hip and using your noggin to come up with the next new thing is now considered [ READ MORE ]

Backdoor Admissions to Selective Universities

The NY Times today published a piece about an interesting college admissions strategy: To get into a selective school, apply to a less popular program and then once you’re accepted, transfer into your desired program. Transfering within a university is easier than entering it. How to choose which major to apply to? Some programs are [ READ MORE ]

Free Online College Resources: OpenLearn

Open University Makes Educational Resources Available Free Online On Oct. 25th 2006, The Open University in the UK officially launched their open content initiative OpenLearn. Now all knowledge-seekers around the globe can access educational resources for free. They’re trying to get the educational word out to folks living far far away from the university experience, [ READ MORE ]

Nine Worst Colleges in America

Yes, it’s another college ranking list, but this snarky / cheeky one really stands out. Radar Magazine Online recently put together a “semi-scientific guide to the most substandard schools in America.” Using a wide variety of sources, Radar took up the challenge of choosing which accredited 4-year colleges with physical campuses made the “dishonor roll.” [ READ MORE ]

Dumpster Diving College Students

If you have too much self-respect (or maybe just enough) to no longer traipse around the nice neighborhoods begging for free candy, then you’re probably hitting the lean month of the college term: any extra cash you may have had at the beginning of the term is gone, and any holiday which might involve your [ READ MORE ]

I Need Some Sleep!

Seriously, I’m so sleep-deprived right now, I just laughed so hard I cried after typing the title to this. I’m so exhausted I can’t sleep—I have to swim laps in order to reach some point-of-no-return degree of tired so my legs will stop twitching and I can get some z’s. If you know of what [ READ MORE ]

Colleges That Change Lives : Evergreen State College

In his book, Colleges That Change Lives, author Loren Pope profiles 40 schools. In that list, The Evergreen State College is one of two public schools talked about. Pope deems only 40 schools in the country worthy of being classified as life-changing, and only two (only two!) are public. That’s just a whole rant I [ READ MORE ]