Admissions Officers Give the Inside Scoop

If you’re a high school senior who just submitted your applications, you probably envision those meticulously-typed forms floating into a dark void. But good news: in a blog post yesterday, The New York Times dissolved the barrier between the applicant masses and those elusive admissions officers.
The post is a Q&A with the Deans […]

Grad School, Half Off!

We joked earlier about laid-off or frustrated young job seekers taking refuge in grad school until the recession passes, as a sort of Duck and Cover strategy. Apparently St. John’s University in New York has the same idea — and it’s sweetening the deal by putting its degrees on sale:

The university announced the Alumni Assistance […]

Crabby State Denies In-State Tuition to Guardsman

In more depressing tuition-related news, a young man who has fought in two (two!) rotations in Iraq as part of the Maryland National Guard doesn’t qualify for in-state tuition. He’s feeling a little rejected, frankly:

“I wore the Maryland flag on my sleeve and when people asked me where I was from, I always said ‘Maryland,’” […]

Hold Onto Your Internships!

Here’s some chilling news to go with the holiday season: in this job market, as professional and business services, finance, and media and entertainment are all downsizing, college students are faring worse than high school dropouts.

In November the number of people with a higher degree who were out of work rose to 1.413 million from […]

Majoring in “Mutually Beneficial Arrangements”

Are you a pretty co-ed who’s annoyed by having to slave at minimum-wage jobs for beer money? An anonymous undergrad at a “suburban Pennsylvania” college tells the inspiring story of how you too can sleep your way through your four years:

During my job hunt, I met a potential employer. He was in his early thirties, […]

Left Turn for Bob Jones U.

The sins of the fathers of Bob Jones University include some pretty hardcore racism, and it is up to the children –or, well, the great-grandchild, President Stephen Jones–to make amends in a statement on the school’s website:

“We failed to accurately represent the Lord and to fulfill the commandment to love others as ourselves. For these […]

Mormons Vs. Mormons! Who Should God Root For?

The New York Times today covers a fascinating dilemma for the Lord: When BYU, an officially Mormon school, competes against the University of Utah, a mostly-Mormon-but-also-Christian public school, in their annual “Holy War,” is a victory predetermined by the guy upstairs? It’s a sensitive subject:

“Obviously, if you do what’s right on and off the […]

Hermione Does Harvard

Apparently the ivy is always greener on the other side of the pond. British actress Emma Watson is applying to colleges in the states! This could be because our boys have better teeth and our football comes with tailgating — or because at this point Oxford or Cambridge would give her flashbacks to the set […]

College-Bound Boys Have Feelings Too!

Heading off to college means having to buy your own beer, having to pay for your own cable, and wrestling with the pros and cons of doing laundry with fabric softener (pro: so snuggly! con: so expensive!) Surprisingly, researchers discover, this process is traumatic for young men as well as young women, though you might […]

Colleges Bring Food into the Classroom

Food is suddenly a big deal.
Suddenly, you ask? Hasn’t food been a big deal for all of history? True, astute reader, eating food is nothing new — but discussing it in an academic context, as a public health-environmental-political entity, only recently became the thing to do. (Just ride a New York City subway and […]

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