The ladder to job security goes up, and it goes back down. You are either going up that ladder or going down. Maybe you are doing fine, a few rungs up the ladder. One day BAM. Your company fires half it’s employees, and there you go… slipping back down the rungs you worked so very hard...

“One year I had a student with a near-perfect SAT score and straight A’s. I’d originally put him in the submitted pile, but then we had to reduce the list. I reread his essays and frankly, they were just a little more boring than the other kids. So I cut him. Boring was the only justification that...

A degree in capitalism? What in the world would that be? And why do so many students want one? Is it the study of greed, or of service? Buying low and selling high? Of leading, of producing profits? Okay, you guessed it. We’re talking about Business— literally, the study of how to make...

Jobs, Internships, Scholarships, Fellowships, Grants, Apprenticeships and Cooperative Education. Isn’t this what every student needs? But in this downer economy, how do you find a job while you study? How do you find an internship, and learn while you earn? How do you find a scholarship, a...

Focus your mental telescopes. All the way to year 2018. No yelling at you today. No fevered work dreams. And no Cotton Mather “Slackers in the Hands of a Hungry Gene Pool” sermons. This is a numbers day. Hard number projections. Can it give us any idea of what your world will look like?...

The secret life of living things has always totally fascinated you. And you live in an era in which Bio-technological scientists are on the cutting edge of discovery. You’ve been following it all through school. The web reports, the studies. Life-forms being created in the lab. Creatures being...

Education evolved as a human necessity, not a toy or a luxury. The price of studying for years is high, both in terms of time and cost and effort. But the results are powerful, and durable— they last. Education increases the odds of survival, and it always has. The more you know, the better...

Women continue to play a larger and larger role in the work force, both in rising employment numbers, in rising salaries, and especially in rising numbers of college graduates. One prime example— more than half of all pre-Med students are female. This, in a profession once totally dominated...

So, you’re about the graduate. It’s time to start your job search. Crunch time. The heat is on. Time for all your hard work, those years of study, of doing without, to pay off. You know your skill set is strong. You’re confident you can excell, you just need the chance to prove...

The Philosopher’s Stone was the goal of all ancient alchemists. What on earth does this have to do with your new training, or your new degree? In centuries past, Alchemy was a pseudo-science— the ultimate dream of Alchemists was a fusing of metals that would, like King Midas’ touch,...