by Sarah Green | Aug 8, 2015 | News, Student Issues
A pastor was asked once how long it would take him to write a sermon. That depended, he said, on how long the sermon was to be. To write an hour-long sermon, he’d need two hours. To write a half-hour sermon, he’d need all day. And to write a five minute...
by Sarah Green | Aug 7, 2015 | News
Our schools are not set up to teach us to fail correctly. What may seem like an oxymoron is actually an incredibly important skill. We will fail. All of us. Every student and every adult, in big ways and small, all our lives. It is important, therefore, to take as...
by Sarah Green | Jul 24, 2015 | News, Student Issues
Is it possible to predict a student’s college GPA using modern technology? According to a professor at Dartmouth, it is! The app is called SmartGPA and uses a smartphone’s ability to sense a person’s activity and passively measure the kind of behavior that affects...
by Sarah Green | Jul 23, 2015 | News, Student Issues
There are multiple different ways to attack grad school. You don’t have to follow the typical path of going to high school, earning straight As, getting into the college of your dreams (or not), and finally applying to grad school, culminating in sometimes up to...
by Sarah Green | Jul 19, 2015 | News
All children tell stories. If there are few innate, universal parts of childhood, that’s one of them. Put any two elements together, ask a young child about them, and they’ll weave you a story simple or complicated about what those two things have to do...
