Archive for June, 2007

Helicopter Parents

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Parental involvement is a great thing when those parents are helping students stay on the path to success. Studies show that involved parents are a great help when it comes…

New Competition for the Common Application

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Many college applicants use the Common Application, which is accepted at more than 300 colleges. The Common Application allows students to apply to a number of colleges without repeatedly…

Can Blogging Harm Your Graduate School Career?

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Many students chronicle their lives and their experiences in graduate school in online web logs, blogs. Some authors use pseudonym while others write under their own name. Authors often choose…

Bibliography Note Makers

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Do you go crazy making bibliographies? Sometimes it doesn’t help us to look at sample citations and try to follow the examples. For some students, this only causes more confusion.

Did…

Choosing Recommenders

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

The aspects of applying to graduate school that students agonize most over are letters of recommendation. Who do you approach? …

Save Your Work and Save Yourself!

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

I ran across this plea while browsing around some message boards:

MS Word Disaster! A friend of mine was up all night working on a paper in MS Word. She hadn’t…

Einstein’s Brain and Yours

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

I was disappointed when I heard that the old legend about Einstein was false: that he had failed math as a schoolboy. Something inside me wanted that to be true…