I have always con­sid­ered July 4th as summer's hump day; The sum­mer days and nights seem to move at a much faster pace after this national hol­i­day. And given that July 4th falls twenty days after the sum­mer sol­stice sum­mer days should feel as if they move faster. Dur­ing my high school sum­mers, the July […]

More and more, we're hear­ing sto­ries of col­lege stu­dents learn­ing the ins and outs of busi­ness not from a book, but from get­ting out there and doing it on their own campuses.

Web humor seems to spew out of the sub­ject of col­lege, from CollegeHumor's prank wars to PartySchoolTexts.com to fake Face­book col­lege groups, but rarely does a funny site poke fun at the insti­tu­tions them­selves. Rife with admin­is­tra­tion bureau­cracy and run by self-proclaimed intel­lec­tu­als, col­leges and uni­ver­si­ties are surely worth a jab for being the squarish […]

It's unfor­tu­nate, yet true. Four years of col­lege study won't nec­es­sar­ily afford you a col­lege degree. The first two years of college–whether at a uni­ver­sity or com­mu­nity college–tend to encom­pass "gen­eral edu­ca­tion" (GE) classes, con­sist­ing of lan­guage, writ­ing, speech, math and other basic require­ments before pur­su­ing upper divi­sion courses toward a spe­cific major. Some students […]

Today, Parade Mag­a­zine announced their selec­tions for their annual High Boys Bas­ket­ball All-American Team. Accord­ing to  Parade, Jared Sullinger, the magazine's 2010 Player of the Year will be headed to Ohio State next, likely to shore up an offense who will miss AP Col­lege Player of the Year, Evan Turner, as he is likely to […]

Ladies and Gen­tle­man. Pre­sent­ing poten­tial mem­bers of the Tuft’s grad­u­at­ing class of 2014. Appli­cant 1 Appli­cant 2 Appli­cant 3 Two weeks ago, NPR ran a fea­ture on their pop­u­lar pro­gram “All Things Con­sid­ered” look­ing at the rise of video sub­mis­sions as part of the col­lege appli­ca­tion process. And these stu­dents were not apply­ing to select film schools or large […]

Every­one knows that pub­lic edu­ca­tion has taken huge bud­get cuts in response to the recent state of the econ­omy. As a result, pub­lic uni­ver­si­ties (read: the Cal States and UCs) can no longer accom­mo­date the same huge num­bers of stu­dents as before, while being forced to raise fees and tuition for exist­ing stu­dents. Many students […]

As Eliz­a­beth men­tioned, Feb­ru­ary is a month filled with oppor­tu­ni­ties for bud­ding rela­tion­ships (col­lege accep­tance let­ters) and heart­break. (sigh…rejection let­ters). In some cases, these same let­ters may force some soon-to-be grad­u­at­ing high schools seniors to revisit a ques­tion they once con­fi­dently answered months before pen­ning rough draft per­sonal state­ments. What's more, the answer to this […]

On Thurs­day, the New York Times ran an arti­cle describ­ing a grow­ing trend among senior cit­i­zens: sleep overs! After spend­ing the day­time acquaint­ing them­selves with the facil­i­ties, retire­ment com­mu­ni­ties are offer­ing prospec­tive senior res­i­dents the oppor­tu­nity to take in evening social events and the oppor­tu­nity to spend the night. For senior cit­i­zens, this is a […]

Happy New Year! 2010 should be a great year for Bet­ter­grads. I received a face­book mes­sage from the Bet­ter­grads co-founder and social-entrepreneurship czar Kevin Adler, inform­ing me that he would be spend­ing the New Year’s week­end in the OC / LA area. Yes­ter­day I met up with him, his brother Chris, and Emer­ald (Chris’ girlfriend) […]