From Tassels to Diamond Rings

Everything changes when you go to college. You grow up a little, the people who signed your yearbooks throughout the years, who you swore you would keep in touch with, aren’t even in your cell phone anymore. You read their status updates on Facebook thinking, wow it’s been a while since I’ve talked to them. […]

How “For Profit Schools” Can Hurt your Wallet

You’ve probably seen the ads on subways, and every time you try and log in at some job referral site like Monster or Career Builder. The ubiquitous presence of DeVry University and University of Phoenix ads can be nauseating to many of us, and downright money-depleting to others. Promising $-free educations, these colleges still cost a ton […]

Define Yourself

Four years ago, at around this time, I was waiting on pins and needles. I had placed my future in the hands of fate, hoping and praying that I was enough—on paper at least. I had taken the SAT twice, one of the first class to take the new version. I, like everybody else I […]

Humanities Students and Understanding “The Big Shaggy”

 A recent Op-Ed in the NY Times from David Brooks highlights the growing chasm between the humanities and our current economic climes.  It seems that not only have the number of liberal arts students declined over the last couple of decades (I blame Wall Street), but that they will continue to do so as our […]

Natalee & Stephany

I think we’ve all said it at one time or another: “It can’t happen to me.” We look at the news, seeing story after story of people getting kidnapped and murdered, innocent people going about their lives who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. And then there are cases […]

Walmart.edu?

Walmart has become a byword for cheap, poor quality, anti-union, local store killer, etc. (see this Unigo review of the University of Arkansas for how it can even be used to demonize an entire university).  Now, however, the store is taking greater steps to improve the lot of their employees by helping to fund an […]

Harvard Hoax by Adam Wheeler

Famed Harvard mischief-maker Adam Wheeler is getting a lot of buzz on Gawker’s well-traveled pages. That’s because he faked his college transcripts and got away with it (at least for a little bit—never should have gone after the Rhodes Scholarship). This story seems to get more bizarre every week, as new information comes to light.
First, the award-winning […]

Can College Students Empathize?

Do college kids really only care about themselves? A recent report aims to give us the answer. There were 72 studies tracking 14,000 college students from 1979 to 2009. What are findings?  Read on to find out.

Top 10 Commencement Speeches

Commencement time is winding down for the majority of college graduates. Many students are already looking for summer work back home, or have stayed on campus for internships, or maybe even some summer classes. There are plenty of things to do over the summer in order to prepare for the next semester in the fall.
There might be […]

Going Backwards

Most kids move away to college after high school; they look forward to being away from home and being independent and on their own. I did the opposite: I’ve always been an independent person, walking to the beat of my own drummer. Ironically, I ended up going a half an hour “away” to college. I […]