It was bound to happen:

First laptops were thrown into a university education (Drew university all the way back in 1988, University of Minnesota-Crookston in 1993,  Acadia in 1998 and now over a hundred have programs)
Next Duke gave away ipods to all its freshmen
and now Abilene Christian University is planning on giving an iphone or itouch [...]

The academy award winning film maker of Ratatouille says:
“I want to thank the Academy. I also want to thank my junior-high guidance counselor for a meeting we had where he asked me, ‘What do you want to do with your life?’ and I said, ‘I want to make movies.’ ”
The counselor then asked what else [...]

Last week, tortonto blog, The Torotonist, reported strange advertisements appearing on bus stops.

The adds focus on a “new drug” that gets kids to do what their parents say:

Clearly the adds were meant to provoke: Who put them there and what is the real advertising target?
Itseems Obay is winning on both fronts. Malcolm Roberts [...]

Man, in the old days, say 2000, you could just go to someone and say “I hear you have been saying bad things about me; what’s up with that?” Fast-forward a century (in technology years) and you have to be concerned about what others are saying about you online…or what you have even said about [...]

Last week, tortonto blog, The Torotonist, reported strange advertisements appearing on bus stops.

The adds focus on a “new drug” that gets kids to do what their parents say:

Clearly the adds were meant to provoke: Who put them there and what is the real advertising target?
It
seems Obay is winning on both fronts. Malcolm Roberts [...]

Cooperative education offers a unique hybrid of academic and theoretical understanding with real world experiences.
Cooperative
education is a structured educational strategy integrating classroom
studies with learning through productive work experiences in a field
related to a student’s academic or career goals. It provides
progressive experiences in integrating theory and practice. National Commission for Cooperative Education
Unlike internships, [...]

The University of California has received 121,005 applications for
admission to the fall 2008 term, breaking the record for the fourth
year in a row. Overall applications increased by 9 percent over fall
2007, with a 9.2 percent increase at the freshman level and an 8.5
percent increase at the transfer level.
The all-time high number of
applications included a 7.7 [...]

Okay, time to turn our attention to what to actually focus on in college. For many international students they bring a multicultural, multilingual world view to college which they take for granted these attributes. You could put your talent to work by majoring in a language. A while back, the US government announced a push [...]

As juniors begin their search in earnest, and seniors will soon being forced to make their choice, counselors everywhere are advoating thei kids look at internship options that their universities will give them. Just how important are internships?

Increasingly,
internships are perceived as essential steps to post-college
employment, as definitive legs up for job applicants. “Internships are
no longer [...]

Princeton University has announced plans to organize first year students to have a study abroad experience before they set foot on the Jersey Campus. This institutional Gap year would give students “a more international perspective, add to their maturity and give them a
break from academic pressures [in what Princeton University President Dr. Tilghman] called a [...]