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Getting Your Dream Job
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!First, let’s set aside the insanely inefficient circling want ads in the newspaper, and carpet bombing every employer within a 5-10 mile radius with your résumé. That’s about getting a job, any job, and purely expedient when you’re between everything […]
Join the Crowd!
The financial crisis started a long time before anyone really took notice. I can remember hearing students complaining about how difficult it was to get a college loan starting at least 15-18 months ago. I didn’t pay too much attention and dismissed most of it as simply more students returning to college to finish their […]
Online Degrees vs. Traditional Degrees: No Significant Difference
Study after study has consistently come to the same conclusion that there is no significant difference in outcomes between learning in a traditional classroom and learning online. (However, there are some who raise valid points about how we ask the question, but they address technology and the role it plays, not the outcomes.)
As shocking as […]
Isolation
Even in traditional settings, the majority of your time is spent outside the classroom or lab. The difference is that on campus all you have to do is look around you to find other students, distance learners have to connect to the Internet. But is the ‘isolation’ all students experience at one time or another […]
Telling Family and Friends About Going Back to School
Going back to college will take away some fairly large chunks of time you’ve been spending with family and friends. It does not mean you will not have time for them. In fact, if you run a time audit - how you currently spend your time - you can probably make a few adjustments and […]
