Face­book is one of those amaz­ing feats of tech­nol­ogy that does great things—but also opens up the pos­si­bil­ity for sit­u­a­tions like the one in Florida. So what are we to do?

Last week, Elizabeth's post about books that mat­tered in col­lege was a poignant review of the last­ing impres­sion of books: both in our minds and in the groove cut into our shoul­der from increas­ingly heavy over-the-shoulder book bags. While noth­ing will ever replace the tac­tile sen­sa­tion of thumb­ing through hun­dreds of  high­lighted pages, e-books are here […]

With Hanukkah wind­ing down and Christ­mas right around the cor­ner, news­pa­pers across the coun­try this week have high­lighted some cool web­sites and mobile phone appli­ca­tions that can make com­par­i­son shop­ping a lot eas­ier. One prod­uct that caught my eye, was the mobile appli­ca­tion, Shop­Savvy, cre­ated by Big in Japan, a devel­op­ment com­pany based out of […]

Toward the tail end of my senior year, I would end most week­nights with the fol­low­ing rit­ual: Around 11:00 PM, I would climb a flight of stairs up to Jason’s suite, and would engage in a 30 minute ses­sion of play­ing one of Elec­tronic Arts’ best sell­ing video games, FIFA 2009 on Jason’s XBox. I […]

Bet­ter­Grads totally digs STEM (Sci­ence, Tech­nol­ogy, Engi­neer­ing and Math­e­mat­ics) initiatives.

Some­where within the never-ending piece of lit­er­a­ture you might cur­rently know as the Com­mon Appli­ca­tion (or any col­lege appli­ca­tion for that mat­ter), you are asked to high­light some of your skills. Yes, it’s easy to write that you are pro­fi­cient in Microsoft® Word®, Excel®, and Pow­er­Point® (the later will become the bane of your existence […]

For high school stu­dents try­ing to pick the per­fect col­lege, the best thing to do is per­son­ally visit all of your top choices, meet pro­fes­sors, sit in on classes, and eat in the din­ing halls. But this isn't real­is­tic. That's why stu­dents and par­ents rely on local col­lege fairs to meet col­lege rep­re­sen­ta­tives and ask […]