The Los Ange­les Times ran an arti­cle, where fash­ion colum­nist Adam Tschorn inter­viewed Neil Patrick Har­ris from “How I Met your Mother” who dis­cussed how much he loves his Paul Smith and Dolce & Gab­bana suits, because they fit and flat­ter his tall and nar­row frame like no other. The arti­cle reminded me of the […]

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 […]

Bet­ter­Grads kick-off mixer on Tues­day, Jan­u­ary 12, 2010.

With many excit­ing recent devel­op­ments to share, includ­ing the first (inter)national Bet­ter­Grads team meet­ing, a pre­sen­ta­tion to the Rotary Club of Pleasan­ton North, upcom­ing pre­sen­ta­tions at Oak­land Tech, ini­tial feed­back from GHS, it’s time for another update on BetterGrads!

We believe high school stu­dents need col­lege stu­dent advi­sors who are close to their age and con­nected to their schools. As "experts" on the topic of col­lege, col­lege stu­dents are uniquely posi­tioned to impact their younger peers. Thus, we offer local student-to-student peer advis­ing in Cal­i­for­nia. We con­nect high school stu­dents with local col­lege student […]

Tonight, Bet­ter­Grads reached over 100 fans on Face­book after Kevin, our Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, started a "100 fans / 24 hours" chal­lenge across Face­book and on Twit­ter, so that we could get more peo­ple involved in our mis­sion and reg­is­ter our own Face­book van­ity url!
So be sure to check out our new page and become a fan […]