I’ve been in college for a few weeks now and am pretty much settled in to the university way of life. My sleeping hours have shifted, I spend a lot of time on homework, and can eat whatever I want. Life as a college student is great! Here are some observations I’ve had recently on [...]
From a New York Supreme Court Justice in the New York Times: After a career in public service, I regretfully say, I would not do it again. Philosophy and point of view led me to doing good instead of doing well, so I never expected to become rich. But now that [...]
This Email appeared in my inbox last thursday from a teacher at my school: Do any of you have Black lights? I need to borrow them for exhibition for a glowing bacteria project. Your Pink Floyd poster will be fine without it for a few days. Thanks!
The Tetris effect is the ability of any activity to which people devote sufficient time and attention to begin to dominate their thoughts, mental images, and dreams. It is named after the video game Tetris. (From Tetris effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) Going to a school that is dominated by technology, it is [...]
Then she suggested he write his main application essay about something else altogether. “The Habitat for Humanity theme, the tug on your heartstrings, sounded too common,” says Andrew. So he tried another topic that would reveal more about his intellectual enthusiasms: how running helped him understand the existentialist philosophy he was reading about. [...]
Well friends, the time has come. It is the fall of my senior year of high school and it is only fitting that I begin to plan my future. I am currently in the middle of applying for colleges and, right now, I’m not too stressed (ask me in two weeks). Of course, I am [...]
I went school shopping today to prepare myself for my final year of high school. As it should be, the farther you progress through your schooling career, the list of “required” supplies consistently dwindles. This year all I needed was the bare minimum — a few binders, some notebooks and some pens. Everything was great until [...]