16 days ago
gleuschk : Welcome, Freshmen. Have an iPod. - NYTimes.com - but are they stocked with tunes?
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25 days ago
deusx : Judge says UC can deny religious course credit - "A federal judge says the University of California can deny course credit to applicants from Christian high schools whose textbooks declare the Bible infallible and reject evolution. ... Rejecting claims of religious discrimination and stifling of fr
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1 month ago
philgyford : Times Higher Education - All the privileged must have prizes - About teaching at Harvard and the sense of entitlement the kids there have. (via Kottke)
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2 month ago
gleuschk : The American Scholar - The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - By William Deresiewicz - he's talking to people like me (I hope -- he certainly isn't talking in a way that the plumber in his kitchen can understand him)
philgyford : The American Scholar - The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - By William Deresiewicz - Great measured rant about what Ivy League educated kids are missing out on. (via Kottke)
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3 month ago
gleuschk : Tomorrow's Professor Blog - mailing list cum blog
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3 month ago
gleuschk : The Atlantic Online | June 2008 | In the Basement of the Ivory Tower | Professor X - English adjunct tiptoes near the idea that not everyone should go to college. Duh.
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gleuschk : The cost of losing | Sidebar: From the top - The Cost of Losing - this interview with Nancy Cantor is completely unintelligible. I have the feeling I'd be outraged if I could just understand what the hell she's talking about
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5 month ago
gleuschk : University Hill Transportation Study - see Final Recommendations: they'd create a new public square, re-configure Marshall Street, build a light-rail line (!), put in roundabouts, bus lanes, and bike lanes, and de-one-way-ify all the one-way streets. Wow.
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gleuschk : Academia.edu - hard to know exactly what the point is, but looks interesting
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10 month ago
deusx : Yahoo! University Hack Days - "When you peel back the layers at Yahoo!, the core of innovation is usually a small group of people building something they think is really cool."
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10 month ago
deusx : Building Web Hack Interfaces » SlideShare (share powerpoint presentations online, slideshows, slide shows, download presentations, widgets, MySpace codes) - "A presentation for Dundee University's Hack Day"
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11 month ago
philgyford : Colleges and Universities - Education and Schools - Engineering - Technology - Science - New York Times - Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering sounds different in a good way. "Learning the skill of how to learn is more important than trying to fill every possible cup of knowledge in every possible discipline." (via Blech)
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11 month ago
philgyford : Russell davies: studying graphic design - Lots of advice in the comments about where to do a graphic design degree (no recommendations for UWE where I went...).
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11 month ago
philgyford : Blog.pmarca.com: The Pmarca Guide to Career Planning, part 2: Skills and education - Marc Andreesen's interesting guide to what you should study at college if you're Marc Andreesen. (via Rodcorp)
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11 month ago
gleuschk : Cake, math books make for a unique 100th birthday celebration - News - Carnegie Library celebrated its 100th anniversary Thursday during a two-hour birthday party featuring speakers, cake, an array of rare mathematics books and historic photographs on display
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16 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : "The Answer is NOT always C" - "The Answer is NOT always C": especially on a true/false test!
adamrg : B is the new C
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23 month ago
plasticbag : Get a $5000 scholarship at an American University - if you regularly write a weblog! - This is a significant opportunity for a young weblogger to get some help with their career, and while these are odd criteria for a scholarship that doesn't make the money less real.
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gleuschk : Syracuse University Graphic Identity Standards - now I just need to get my hands on Fenice Regular. anyone?
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27 month ago
philgyford : Bristol school of art media & design - UWE Bristol - Major Redevelopment for Bower Ashton Campus - My old college is having a £11.5 million makeover. I can't work out if our old "giraffe house" building is to be replaced or not.
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34 month ago
plasticbag : The Sun newspaper reports on a new calender full of men from British universities - I had a quick glance in the interests of science and have come to the conclusion that it's not terribly good.
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36 month ago
Matthew M. Boedicker : the social logic of Ivy League admissions
plasticbag : Malcolm Gladwell on selection policies for Harvard (much more interesting than it sounds, and weirdly much less judgmental than it could have been) - "If Harvard had too many Asians, it wouldn’t be Harvard, just as Harvard wouldn’t be Harvard with too many Jews or pansies or parlor pinks or shy types or short people with big ears."
jkottke : Harvard's admissions process - Malcolm Gladwell's description of how Harvard decides on who to admit strikes me as similar to how many companies in the tech/web industry hire employees. "Subjectivity in the admissions process is not just an occasion for discrimination; it is also, in b
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