Graduating from college is an exciting time for many people of all ages. Some choose to enroll in courses right after high school, leaving them with years ahead to pursue the career of their dreams. Other students have chosen to go back to school for advanced degrees later in life, allowing them...
When the dying tyrant Nero proclaimed on his death bed “Oh, what an artist that perishes in me!” his remarks reveal more than just the arrogance of history’s darkest man. They also reveal the almost immutable cultural connection between art and great suffering; between the artist and the sufferer....
Many people have noticed that lately, of the three big Ivy League schools (Princeton, Harvard and Yale), Yale has been ranking a lot lower than Harvard and Princeton. Why would that be? The best answer that we could come up with is that college ranking services are putting more emphasis on...
The life of an author — particularly an author of fiction – is necessarily connected to that which is most dangerous: our consciousness. It is often through the explorative process of creative literature that we touch the exciting possibilities and subversive consequences of our capacities as a...
The 2012 rankings for the 50 Best Colleges & Universities have been released. Coming in at the number 1 spot is Princeton University. According to the rankings publisher: "We set out to create a college ranking that does a better job of measuring the things that prospective students and...
Gold is one of the best conducting metals known to mankind. It's also nearly impervious to sulfuric acid due to its nearly unique chemical nature. As if this wasn't enough, gold can be hammered down to only one atom of thickness and worked like clay in its pure state. The physical characteristics...
The Princeton Review has released its 2012 Top Party School Rankings. No major surprises on the list and we can't wait to see how the administrations of these schools handle the PR spin! Top 10 Party Schools for 2012 1. Ohio University, Athens, Ohio2. University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.3. University...
Imagine taking out over $200,000 in student loans to go to law school, only to graduate and find that the job market is rotten? That's exactly what's going on with law school graduates today. From: The Best Colleges As law schools continue to sell the vision of a $150,000 lawyer salaries, the...
There are a number of jobs you can have as a graphic designer and the number keeps increasing every year. Before you can become a designer, however, you will need to get a design degree.
A reader wrote to us and asked whether we had any advice for where her homeschooled teenager should go to college: We chose to homeschool our child from the very beginning. But very soon (in two years) she is going to be heading off for college and we are starting to plan for where she should...
