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College Interviews
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College InterviewsMonday August 14th 2006, 10:20 am Filed under: College, College Admissions
Interviews are something that can give you a very competitive edge. When you talk to an admissions officer, you immediately become less of a number and more of a person. If the college rep gets a good sense of who you are, what your goals are and what you would like to achieve it becomes harder for them to ignore you in a sea of applicants.
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28
Cambridge IELTS 6 on rapidshare
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Cambridge IELTS 6
Provides students with an excellent opportunity to familiarise themselves with IELTS and to practise examination techniques using authentic test material prepared by Cambridge ESOL. Each collection contains four complete tests for Academic candidates, plus extra Reading and Writing modules for General Training candidates. An introduction to these different modules is included in each book, together Read more
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25
Goodbye Ms. Jones…
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Goodbye Ms. Jones…Friday April 27th 2007, 10:47 am Filed under: College, College Admissions
I was shocked, and saddened to read this New York Times article about MIT’s Dean of Admissions who just resigned after admitting she had “padded up her own resume.” “Ms. Jones’ had claimed on her résumé that she had received degrees from Albany Medical College, Union College, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Read more
Tags: 8230, Goodbye, JonesJun
25
Class Size
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Class SizeTuesday December 11th 2007, 2:45 pm Filed under: College
Daniel W. Barwick has an interesting essay up on Inside Higher Ed pondering class size and student learning. Classes with a few hundred students crammed into an auditorium are not conducive to student learning but are a more efficient use of college real estate, course scheduling, instructors and teaching assistants. Classes with a decent teacher-to-student ratio mean a better Read more
Tags: class, SizeJun
25
The good news is that you don’t have to be able to do this on actual MCAT questions. All you would need to be able to do at the very most on a problem is to estimate where your trig function value will fall with relation to the five angles that you know. (You should know the cos and sin values for 0, 30, 45, 60, and 90 degrees; if you don’t, memorize them NOW.) That’ll be enough to choose the answer using process of elimination. Read more
Tags: Calculator, Functions, Physics, Solving, Trig, withoutJun
25
Operons in Prokaryotes
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Operons in prokaryotes consist of groups of genes that typically work together and are all controlled by one promoter, which is in turn controlled by an operator region. This means that all of the genes in the operon are turned on and off together.
As far as inducible operons go, the first example that comes to mind is the lac operon. The genes in the operon, lac Z, Y, and A, code for proteins that DEGRADE/utilize lactose. These genes Read more
Tags: Operons, ProkaryotesJun
23
Ways to Increase Your Memory + Brain Power
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Ways to Increase Your Memory + Brain PowerWednesday January 24th 2007, 4:09 pm Filed under: College, Tips
Brain Food Eat breakfast - extra points for protein and fiber Eggs Increase intake of Omega-3 fatty acids Eliminate processed and packaged foods — sugar, fats and chemicals
Sleep 8 to 9 Hours According to researchers, sleep is necessary for the brain to process and consolidate knowledge and for memories to form. During sleep, Read more
Tags: Brain, Increase, MEMORY, Power, ways, yourJun
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Eukaryotic Translation
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Please feel free to add if I may have missed anything or correct if I’m even partially wrong.
tRNA molecule • Single chain, contains 73-93 ribonucleotides • Contains many unusual bases such as inosine, pseudouridine • tRNA is L shaped • 5’ end is phosphorylated • 3’ end ends in CCA and contains the amino acid attachment, it is at one end of the L • The other end of the L, far from the Read more
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19
Teaching That’s Worth The Price Of Tuition
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Teaching That’s Worth The Price Of TuitionTuesday June 26th 2007, 9:54 am Filed under: College
If all of my professors and instructors had taught like this, forking over the tuition would have been far less painful. I’m not saying all profs need to have slick media shows every lecture. I’m saying college costs a lot, and 95% of the time undergrads are being lectured to by either a T.A. or an overworked, underpaid instructor who stands Read more
Tags: 8217, Price, Teaching, that, Tuition, worthJun
19
‘Altruism Meets a Weak Job Market’
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‘Altruism Meets a Weak Job Market’Friday July 04th 2008, 4:08 pm Filed under: Life, Post-College
According to the Wall Street Journal, recent college grads are giving up on trying to find a decent job in the currently crappy job market, and are opting instead to spend a year or two working and/or volunteering for one of the following world-improvement organizations:
Peace CorpsAmeriCorpsTeach Read more
Tags: 8216, 8217, Altruism, Market, Meets, Weak