What’s It With Textbooks Prices – Rent Them
Sat Aug 7, 2010 | | Posted in Careers Students
Anyone going to college these days and for the last so many years know [and feel] very well how much textbooks cost. The textbooks, over the years, has become a monopolistic industry of the utmost. On the average it costs more than $100 to buy a book. Most often, many books will set your wallet … Continue Reading »
Be Practical When You Select Your Major In College
Thu Jun 3, 2010 | | Posted in Careers Students
There are a few realities in life you must consider before you select your major in college. You just cannot choose your field of work based on your passion for the profession anymore. Whatever you select, you must be proficient in it and you must excel in it. There are no guarantees that you would … Continue Reading »
Go To Medical School If You Can Damn Afford It
Sun Apr 18, 2010 | | Posted in Careers Students
There is a huge deficit in newly graduating medical students in the United States. Even more, the number of first year students in medical schools in the current year is a lot less than a decade ago, according to some reports in the media. Thus the shortage is an ongoing phenomenon that will not go … Continue Reading »
Heavy media use creates behavior problems and lower grades
Thu Jan 21, 2010 | | Posted in Careers Students
My 20-year old son spends his wake-up hours texting, surfing online, talking on his smart phone, watching TV. He lives with us but goes out of his way to make sure he spends less time with us. He is awake all night, goes to bed after 3:00 in the morning and sleeps till mid afternoon … Continue Reading »
The hardest hit are those with high school or lower education
Thu Nov 26, 2009 | | Posted in Careers Students
In the long run, education plays a big part in an individual’s income. The more years you stay in school and the more education you get, and of course hard and smart work, the better your future would look like financially as is apparent from the BLS chart (Education pays …). Analyzing the Bureau of … Continue Reading »
6 Steps to consider when you apply to a business school
Wed Nov 11, 2009 | | Posted in Careers Students
If you were recently laid off, maybe your previous employer gave you a severance package. Hopefully. you would get a job soon in the field you have worked in or in the field you want to start working. You would know better than anybody else what position you are in and I mean financially. If … Continue Reading »
Get student loan. Ask for forgiveness. You might get it
Sat Sep 12, 2009 | | Posted in Careers Students
You are thinking “Did I choose a selfless career?” If you have, you might be in for a surprise – your student loan debt might be forgiven. Well! not so fast. It depends on what state you live in and what career field you have selected for yourself. The most common type of loan comes … Continue Reading »
Texting Is A Leading Distraction In School
Sat May 30, 2009 | | Posted in Careers Students
New York Times did an article by Katie Hafner Published: May 25, 2009. She says: They do it late at night when their parents are asleep. They do it in restaurants and while crossing busy streets. They do it in the classroom with their hands behind their back. They do it so much their thumbs … Continue Reading »
Default Rates Are Soaring On Student Loans
Wed Apr 22, 2009 | | Posted in Careers Students
Article on wsj.com “Student Loans: Default Rates Are Soaring” by Anne Marie Chaker published on APRIL 20, 2009. Excerpts from the article: Defaults on student loans are skyrocketing amid a weak job market for graduates and steadily rising tuition costs. According to new numbers from the U.S. Department of Education, default rates for federally guaranteed … Continue Reading »
3 Ways technology makes a big difference to students
Wed Apr 8, 2009 | | Posted in Careers Students
When a student, bound for college, looks for a specific college, technology makes a difference. CDW-G wanted to know “How much of a difference does technology really make to students, when it comes to three critical areas.” The result of their interest is the CDW-G 21st Century Campus Study, released in the Fall of 2008. … Continue Reading »
