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Five Commandments For College Freshmen
The five commandments Valerie Strauss at the Washington Post has come up for college freshmen (so they won’t screw their first term up too badly): Thou shall be responsible for YOU. Thou shall take...
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Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Open
Over twenty years of planning went into creating the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial in Washington D.C. I wrote about the final push about a year ago and was impressed by those involved in the...
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Is Technology Just A Tool?
They always make you take history in school. I’m more of a math and science girl and will always choose a good chemistry lab over a history lecture. However, having been expected to complete several...
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Watching America’s Higher Education Dreams Go Down In Flames
According to the Associated Press, American public colleges and universities have managed to spend their way through the $10 billion-pile of government stimulus money. Insanely large tuition fees and...
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Get Smart About Choosing A College
It turns out parents and students are less than rational when it comes to choosing institutions of higher learning for the prospective college student’s matriculation. Paying for the education venture...
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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. Posted by Alexa...
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Michelle Obama Supports Girls in STEM Majors and Careers
The unfortunate phenomenon of elementary-aged girls becoming interested in STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math) subjects, going off to college intending to major in and then pursue a career in...
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CourseSmart Launches First Mobile Web App For eTextbooks
Technology and education coming together to make college students smarter, faster, better! I’m so excited I can barely keep my pants on! CourseSmart announced today that they’ve launched some sweet...
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Mythbusters’ Cannonball Fiasco
Physics is phun! Except when you don’t check your math. Occasionally I am referred to as an obsessive, over-achieving re-checker of my answers. Trig, chem, calc, or physics. Doesn’t matter, I’ll...
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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. This post...
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