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phil ahne wrote 2 hours ago: so today i took my first finals exam as a grad student. talk about challenging but i feel good about … more →

Tags: Heart, Life

Winter Term at Elon

belkarchives wrote 7 hours ago: Katie Nash Dec. 15, 2009 Page from 1971 WT schedule. Photo courtesy of Belk Library Archives. Januar … more →

Acadèmia i Educació: Blocs a les escoles, cursos i titulacions

acade546educa wrote 14 hours ago: Com que les declaracions famós a dir, “el temps és diners” i “el coneixement és po … more →

Tags: Aprenentatge, Beques, Cursos, d'ensenyament, De l'Acadèmia, Diplomes de la Universitat, Educació, educatius, Escoles

Milwaukee Teacher Fined After Cutting Off Seven-Year-Old's Braids As Punishment36 comments

jonathanturley wrote 14 hours ago: A first-grade teacher has been charged with disorderly conduct after she cut off the braids of 7-yea … more →

Tags: Bizarre, Criminal Law, Politics, Society

The Scholar in Me

davidnta wrote 19 hours ago: I’m almost done with my first full semester of Ph.D. school, and who would have thought that I … more →

Mum Did Mention Research As a Career Option

cracker666 wrote 20 hours ago: But I don’t think she meant anything like this: Young adults, drinking stories and the cult of … more →

Tags: Nutbars, waste of money, WTF

The Best Reason to Work at a Start-up

Joel Jean wrote 20 hours ago: Several weeks ago, I visited Arista Networks with a few other members of Stanford Tau Beta Pi. A sta … more →

Tags: stanford, Entrepreneurship, Tau Beta Pi, Start Ups

Honors Awards

Gianluca wrote 1 day ago: So honors awards were given out at school. I didn’t get anything. I don’t care. I used t … more →

Tags: Things in my Life (FML!!!), Countdown, first, Honors, Public, School, second, summer

Polar Express Week

janeltucker wrote 1 day ago: I want everyone to know that this week we will not be having our regular reading work.  There will b … more →

Tags: Classroom Updates, Homework

Final GPA or Why You Should Do Better the 1st Time!

Cindy Downes wrote 1 day ago: I got my final grades – I made all A’s again. So, I have earned a 4.0 in every course th … more →

The grammarian is back

Beth wrote 1 day ago: It’s been a while since I’ve tackled a grammar issue, so here is a big one: when to use … more →

Tags: Grammar, etc., definitions, Peeves

Happy Birthday University of Illinois Entomology

fandorka wrote 1 day ago: The Danville (Ill.) News-Gazette reports the the University of Illinois Department Entomology celebr … more →

Tags: Entomology, 100th Anniversary, Danville News-Gazette, May Berenbaum, termites, University of Illinois

Study: Airline Passengers May Be Exposed to Harmful Levels of Radiation From Storms11 comments

jonathanturley wrote 1 day ago: There is an interesting science story out this week that could raise legal issues as to risk of radi … more →

Tags: Bizarre, Society, Torts

Opening Doors to Knowledge

bethlambdin wrote 1 day ago: With only a little over two weeks left of 2009, we are continuing to pray for a great outpouring of … more →

Tags: Giving, STAFF

Getting into the minds of students3 comments

Duffster wrote 1 day ago: Even though the new academic year in the southern hemisphere doesn’t start for another couple of mon … more →

Tags: Culture, Media, Film & Television, Berloit Mindset List, College, Education, University

"Cyber Civil Rights" Prioritizes Civility Over Rights11 comments

jmdevoy wrote 1 day ago: By J. DeVoy In Danielle Citron’s paper Cyber Civil Rights, which she discussed at Denver Univeristy’ … more →

Tags: anonymous speech, censorship, First Amendment, internet law, Section 230

A Sad Day For Economists: R.I.P. Paul Samuelson1 comment

fvtaiwan wrote 1 day ago: Paul A. Samuelson, the first American Nobel laureate in economics and the foremost academic economis … more →

Tags: Economics

Am I an Outlier? (Part 2)

Deb Braidic wrote 2 days ago: “Your good grades are because you work hard . . . not because the subjects you are studying co … more →

Tags: A New Idea, personal change, Random Thoughts, What if..., (Hard) Work, Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers, School, ten thousand hours

Flog the Blog: A Call to Arms for the Greatest Blogging Generation56 comments

jonathanturley wrote 2 days ago: By last count, we were roughly 25 votes out of first place in the ABA competition. Twenty-five votes … more →

Tags: Bizarre, Congress, Constitutional law, Courts, Criminal Law, Environment, INTERNATIONAL, Justice, Lawyering