Answer: the student. I believe that it is the student who must be responsible for the college application process. (Of course the parents must be involved in some aspects, don’t go overboard!). Many parents are loath to take a backseat…they believe they know best, and hey, maybe in some areas they do. BUT when it [...]
Full Story »Can you be smart AND creative?
If there is one thing I really just can’t stand about other people sometimes, it is that they think you can only be one or the other, smart or creative. So because I’m in creative majors, I’m not expected to do as well as others in core subjects. When I got better grades than some of [...]
Full Story »Community College Experience
Just thought I’d share my brief community college experience.
I didn’t like high school, was tired of it, etc., etc. So I decided to enroll in community college while in high school. Counterintuitive? Probably, but don’t worry
Ball
I might be burning out a little here. It’s still fun and I’m happy, but a recent bout of insomnia has left me (surprisingly) tired and I believe it’s caused me a minor cold. Headache + sore throat + no sleep = capital markets textbook is going to be brutal once I stop procrastinating and actually start it. Despite those hardships, I still blog!
Full Story »Tips from Lisa Bleich on Cutting the Strings
The college application is a process which serves as a rehearsal for the real thing: college. Lisa Bleich, an independent college mentor and fellow member of the IECA, serves up her advice. And very good advice it is!
Full Story »Random Life Updates
This is exactly what the title says. You’ve been warned.
Less than a month away from being able to say I didn’t cut my hair for an entire year. Props to me for learning that little move that gets your hair out of your eyes without using you hands. Props also to my neck for only just now starting to hurt from having to do it so often. It’s also the longest it’s ever been.
Work Week/Polish Week
WEEEEEELLLLLLL I’m BAAAAACCCKKKK!!!
I’m happily moved into my brand spankin new room at the Alpha Phi house in the grand ole city of Austin, TX and quite frankly, I couldn’t be more pleased! We had to come back to school 2 weeks early for work week/polish week (when we finalize and practice everything for rush and get all settled in before our PNM’s come down to rush! (potential new members)
Full Story »Texas rewrites History
The Texas Board of Education has approved an academic curriculum that presents a “conservative” viewpoint of history. It stresses the “superiority” of American capitalism and questions the Founding Fathers’ commitment to a secular government without state sponsored religion according to an article in the New York Times and the Dallas Morning News.
Full Story »Party School, party time
I’m at a party school. But that doesn’t mean I don’t work hard, too. Stems from the old motto: Work hard, play hard. I truly believe it takes both to have a great life. So I live it. Week days we do our homework and take our tests and go to office hours to ask questions and email our TA’s and professors. Weekends, we play
Full Story »What’s worse than a surprise party? A surprise president!
Yes ladies and gentlemen, it has happened. After one year, six months, twenty eight days, and roughly seven hours (just kidding on that last part) Baylor University went from having an eternal interim president, aka David Garland, and got an actual president!
Interestingly enough, Baylor gave the student body a good twenty four hour notice before the President’s formal introduction that there was, in fact, a new president. Just last week I heard talk of the odd fact that we didn’t and probably won’t have a president for a while. Hmm, I wonder how long this has been in the works?
