Aug 1, 2012

Is it just me or is it that every time you go to find a job they have this exhaustive list of “desired skills” and “required experience.” If you are like me before you look at what the job functions are and what you’ll be responsible for doing if hired, you go right to the bottom of the job post where the company sits on its soapbox and asks for all of...

Jul 11, 2012

In a report by the Center for American Progress, researchers found that “students are not engaged in rigorous learning activities” at school. Some findings include: More than a third of high-school seniors report that they hardly ever write about what they read in class. Nearly three out of four (72 percent) eighth-grade science students say they...

Jun 28, 2012

“What do you do with a B.A. in English? What is my life going to be?  Four years of college and plenty of knowledge, have earned me this useless degree.”  Avenue Q is one of my favorite musicals, but every time I hear these lyrics I cringe; it hits painfully close to home.  I am an English major, and yes, you guessed it, am wondering what my life is...

Jun 4, 2012

In the United States, graduation is an accomplishment that symbolizes many things. Whether it be accessibility to jobs, gifts from relatives or completion of long nights of academic work, graduation is a happy time for people. Recently, I attained my Masters degree. Walking across the stage and receiving my diploma was an emotional and triumphant moment. When I...

May 24, 2012

With Hip-Hop now in its fourth decade of existence, we now see it entering realms the early Hip-Hoppers could never have dreamed of – college classrooms.  Despite Hip-Hop’s mainstream popularity in entertainment for almost twenty years now, the genre has simultaneously often been looked down upon and degraded as less valid musically, intellectually,...