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31
‘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, WeakJul
30
Top Web Tools for Students
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Top Web Tools for StudentsTuesday January 22nd 2008, 3:53 pm Filed under: College, Tips, Social Networking, Education
We’ve done several posts on web tools for students. Larry Ferlazzo recently posted his top 14 list here. Ferlazzo’s top rated Web 2.0 tool is called Tumblr. Tumblr’s technology helps you make a “tumblelog.” What is that? Well, here’s how Tumblr defines it, “If blogs are journals, tumblelogs Read more
Tags: Students, ToolsJul
29
How to Read Biology Passages
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There is no perfect answer to the question about how to attack a bio passage, but what I advise is very similar to my approach to physics passages. Possible differences:
It may be acceptable to skim the entire passage, or skim until you get to obviously detailed information, because biology passages resemble verbal reasoning more than do physics passages.Because tables of experimental values are likely to be of values you understand (in Read more
Tags: Biology, Passages, ReadJul
28
Best College Textbook Sites
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Best College Textbook SitesThursday January 18th 2007, 3:43 pm Filed under: College, Tips, textbooksAlternatives to Your College Bookstore
A recent BusinessWeek.com article about Chegg.com, a site that allows students to buy and sell used textbooks and other school-related goods and services, spurred discussion on Digg.com. End result, you can find vastly different prices on multiple textbook sites, it depends on what you’re looking for. Read more
Tags: Best, College, Sites, TextbookJul
27
Show Me The Doctors
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Show Me The DoctorsMonday March 19th 2007, 9:31 am Filed under: College, Graduate School, Ivy League
Harvard Medical School, in the hopes of attracting teachers, is offering doctors salaries that are double what they would otherwise earn as primary care practioners, according to a CNN story. Sixteen million dollars are going into the effort.
I knew that a shortage of teachers was a major problem in nursing all through America. (From Read more
Tags: Doctors, ShowJul
27
‘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, WeakJul
26
‘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, WeakJul
26
Book Description The GRE subject tests are among the most difficult standardized exams. Rather than testing general problem-solving skills, they require highly specialized knowledge.
The experts at The Princeton Review have thoroughly research each subject test to provide students with the most thorough, up-to-date information available. Students don’t need to relearn the entire histories of their fields—just Read more
Tags: Biology, Cracking, download, RapidshareJul
26
More Student Blogs: The Life of an MD / PhD Graduate Student
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More Student Blogs: The Life of an MD / PhD Graduate StudentFriday August 11th 2006, 2:26 pm Filed under: Graduate School, Blogging
To follow up on an earlier post about graduate students with blogs, I found a great blog by an MD / PhD student who provides insight into her life as a hardworking, frazzled, short on sleep graduate student. An MD / PhD is probably the most challenging and intense degree out there.
She also shares other Read more
Tags: Blogs, Graduate, Life, More, StudentJul
24
Electric Fields - Physics- MCAT
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I think I will tackle the question on electric fields, electric potential and work done in an electric field in parts. First, I will discuss electric fields.
What is an electric field? Imagine you have a positive point charge and place a test positive charge in its vicinity. Coulomb’s law tells us that there is repulsion between the two charges. How exactly do the two charges feel one another? Then answer is the positive point Read more
Tags: Electric, Fields, MCAT, Physics