If you’re a student, you should work hard to be a strong writer. Unfortunately, while some people have a natural ability to express their ideas on paper, others struggle, whether due to limited vocabulary, poor grammar, or simply confusion about what distinguishes strong writing from weak writing. Does this sound like you? If so, it… Read More →
“The times are a-changin’”, Bob Dilan sings. So does the education system and the approach to teaching and learning. With online courses becoming the main source of learning for millions of students worldwide, who have otherwise no possibility to attend real-life courses due to a number of reasons (daily schedule, remoteness, lack of financial resources,… Read More →
When going to college there is always a difficult transition period. You need to remember a lot of new things and adjust to new conditions. It is obvious that with all that multitasking there will be a few things you are going to neglect. Having only so much energy left you would probably forget to… Read More →
When we speak of a markerspace, it’s all about a physical location, where everyone is welcome to gather in order to share their knowledge and skills, work on various projects and build. Makerspaces have a wide range of tools, as well as enough space in any environment without academic community, be it a community education… Read More →
Have you already got your laugh on today? Or you’re simply overburden with tons of assignments due tomorrow? Make sure to give yourself some rest. Internet has a great variety of funny and simply hilarious photos and videos of any kind: trolls, cats, memes…Here is a top 7 web sites that provide the best fun… Read More →
How about exotic dancers in the role of admission officers? Seems to be far from the real life, don’t you think? In Florida college used attractive and exotic dancers as admissions board representatives, who were supposed to falsify documents as well as coach students to lie on various financial forms. In accordance with the federal… Read More →
The course of training in most American colleges takes four years, and students are usually referred to as belonging to one of the four groups, depending on which year they are in. However, rather than base the names of these groups on the number of the year, American educational system uses its own system of… Read More →
Although studies and statistics show that school dropout rate has been slowly but steadily decreasing for the last couple of decades, the percentage of students leaving school early across the United States is still far from being reassuring: the last survey, taken in 2012, shows that between ages 16 and 24 about 7 percent of… Read More →
Student humor occupies a specific place in the overall classification of humor because of its intermediary position – there are many cases when specific humor is attributed to people belonging to certain nations, religions, cultures, or to people with specific occupations and hobbies. Students don’t fall into any of these subdivisions, because they represent a… Read More →
Freshman year is the time when the wind of change starts to blow in the life of a student. Unfortunately, according to the latest surveys of the college freshmen the first year in a new educational establishment is usually the worst time their lives. If you surf on the web, you will most likely face… Read More →