LiveScience has an interesting article on happiness and job satisfaction. Here are the Top 10 most gratifying jobs and the percentage of subjects who said they were very satisfied with the job:

Clergy—87 percent percent
Firefighters—80 percent percent
Physical therapists—78 percent percent
Authors—74 percent
Special education teachers—70 percent
Teachers—69 percent
Education administrators—68 percent
Painters and sculptors—67 percent
Psychologists—67 percent
Security and financial services salespersons—65 percent
Operating [...]

Virginia tech joins the sad list of tragedies…our thoughts are with the families of the victims of yesterday’s murders.

So you have gotten in a few places. Congratulations. Now comes a really hard part: Where to go. Over the next few days I will offer some quick tips to consider in your decision making process.
Today: Evaluate other student experiences there.How? Firstly see if your college took part in the National Student Engagement Survey and [...]

Those of you who attended the EARCOS presentation last week in Thailand will find a new link on the side bar of this page, call Counselors. I am now assembling a special area in the website to house presentations and information aimed at counselors. Direct link here.
Also live at this time in the Shanghai [...]

or so implies the recent article:Students fear for job prospects in U.S. visa crunch - Yahoo! News
“The demand for talent is very real,” he says. “And there is a shortfall of trained talent in the United States.”
Foreign students have always been able to stay in the US for one year after the graduate [...]

From the Wall Street Journal:
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received 20,017 applications, up
from 19,736 last year. The state school\’s acceptance rate fell to 33.3% from
34.1%.
At Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, 4,624 students applied, up 8%,
yet it accepted 1,348, down from 1,395 last year, to prevent overenrollment.
Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, [...]

The New York times is running the first of what wil be many articles bemoaning the competitive nature of college admissions.
Stanford received a record 23,956 undergraduate applications for the fall term, accepting 2,456 students, meaning the school took 10.3 percent of applicants.
Harvard College received applications from 22,955 students, another record, and accepted 2,058 of [...]