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Advice to Freshmen, Prospective Freshmen, and Other Lost Souls
How do you get the most out of college? by John Perry (Stanford) College takes up four years of your life, at least. These days it can mean big bucks for you and your parents, even if you don’t go to...
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Designers vs. Conversers
What have you learned about people? by Dennis Shasha (NYU) When I entered college, I thought the intellectual world was divided into science people and humanities people. I loved math and physics, so...
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Don’t Do Anything that Can Kill You
How do you even decide to go to college or not? and, Is the admissions process a good one? By Scott White (Montclair High School) Does it really matter in life where one goes to college? Yes and no....
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How I Came to Value Honesty
How did you come to value what you do? by Beth Adubato (Rutgers) First of all I have wanted to go to William and Mary my whole life because Thomas Jefferson went there and we have the same birthday....
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I Have a Creed Instead of a Mission
What is your mission? by Clint Korver (Stanford) There is this lovely period when you are working on a Ph.D. after you have gotten all your coursework and tests out of the way when nobody cares what...
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The G-Rant: Please Stop Being Evil and Incompetent
Are colleges doing research the right way? By Jesse Schell (Carnegie Mellon) This is a transcript of a presentation by Jesse on March 6, 2012 at the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco. It was...
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From Street Gang to Ph. D. – It is Easier to Work Harder than Get Smarter.
How does a poor student become a good one? by Mark Halfon (Nassau Community) I graduated from high school with a 69 average, which at least was better than all my friends in my Brooklyn street gang. My...
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Students are Not the Customers – Or the Product – But Our Partners
Are our students the customers, the product, or something else? by Leonard Schlesinger (Babson) Schools that identify students as customers are missing the essential reciprocal nature of the...
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Colleges are Becoming Summer Camps with Libraries
Is higher education improving or going down hill? Interview with: Barry Schwartz (Swarthmore) Q4Colleges.com exclusive interview with Barry Schwartz. We spoke with Barry Schwartz, who is a Professor at...
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Dearest Jack
by Jacky Brighton Dearest Jack, In keeping with the tradition of writing postcards from the holidays home to yourself, here’s a letter from your nearly-enlightened self in the year 2013. In the last...
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