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No Need for the SAT - Admissions Change - Positive Impact on Education

10/06/2008/ No comments
Last weekend 5,500 college admissions officials and high school guidance counselors were at a conference hosted by the National Association for College Admissions. The biggest presentation at the conferences was that given by Mr. Fitzsimmons, the admissions dean at Harvard. (1)
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Retiring From Lifehacking - RSS Reader Clean Out

10/01/2008/ 2 Comments
Today, I decided to retire from LifeHacking. Actually, I could never retire from LifeHacking, because it has been engraved into my thinking process. But I am going to stop reading LifeHacking blogs.
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Oh No! I’m Behind - 5 Steps to Getting Back on Track

09/29/2008/ 3 Comments
Even the most experienced lifehacker will have times when he or she is behind schedule. Things happen. Events in our lives come up and we need to adjust our schedules, putting us behind.
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Discover Your Strengths

09/23/2008/ No comments
Discovering your strengths and knowing how to take advantage of them. Take the StrengthsFinder2.0 test.
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Social Networking Sites for Scholars and Researchers

09/18/2008/ 1 Comment
Are your professors on Facebook? Very few of mine have a Facebook account. If they do, they seldom use it. But there are benefits to social networking sites. They are not all about wasting time, pictures of parties, and relationship statuses. Social networking sites can actually be used to network. Will researchers begin to use social networking sites?
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Studying Foreign Languages – Debunking the Flash Card Myth

09/15/2008/ 3 Comments
For years I have been told by teachers and students that the best method to study vocabulary for a foreign language class is to make flash cards and go over them every day.
While there may be some benefits to making and using flash cards, there is more effective methods…
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The Library - Why go? What’s really in there?

09/09/2008/ 1 Comment
I am embarrassed to admit it, but I, a student who writes about college, failed to take my freshman seminar course my freshman year. I am now in my second year at a university and I am finally taking the freshman seminar course (unfortunately it is a requirement to graduate). Today we took a wonderful tour of the library. I would like to share with you what I “learned.”
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What Makes a Good Professor? Reader Response

09/04/2008/ 1 Comment
What qualities do you look for in a professor?
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Building that Important Relationship with a Professor

09/01/2008/ No comments
You just finished your first week of classes, and you ask yourself “Do I have a good professor?” It is a reasonable question, but have you ever wondered what the professor is asking himself? He walks out of the class asking, “Do I have a class of good students?”
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