by Sarah Green | Oct 28, 2015 | News, Other, Student Issues
According to a recent study by researchers at Baylor University, people who are “intellectually arrogant,” or think they know everything, tend to perform better academically than more modest people. This surprised researchers, who had assumed that more modest people...
by Sarah Green | Oct 27, 2015 | News, Student Issues
The life of a medical student is legendarily hectic. Studying, lab work, networking, the first steps towards internship—there’s little time for a life outside one’s books. It’s hard to imagine even adding a part-time job to that whirlwind of chaos....
by Sarah Green | Oct 26, 2015 | News
Science enthusiasts of any age would be thrilled to earn a ticket to meet the Mythbusters, Bill Nye, and President Obama at the White House Astronomy Night. It’s a heady evening, with highlights like talks from four NASA astronauts currently on the International...
by Sarah Green | Oct 24, 2015 | News, Other
Shark Tank premiered on television in 2009. It marked the arrival of the business pitch as a source of entertainment. Traditionally, pitching an idea to investors is a dull process executed in boardrooms with little fanfare. The technology boom transformed that...
by Sarah Green | Oct 23, 2015 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
The prospects for new teachers are, many say, worse than ever. Inadequate pay, high-stakes tests that can sink a career or an entire school, and the statistics of violence in schools in the last five years are the highest on record. It’s no wonder that schools...
