"The model was the starving, but well fed artist. We went in figuring we're going to make what we want and how we want it, and do it the best we can a...
"The model was the starving, but well fed artist. We went in figuring we're going to make what we want and how we want it, and do it the best we can a...
Our lazy and self-comforting reductionism says nothing about Haiti or Pakistan, and all too much about us Americans. The earthquake in Haiti and the floods in Pakistan were natural disasters, but didn't happen in a geopolitical vacuum.
Let's be honest here. No one in my generation has more fully embodied the vocation of speaking truth to power, within the elite universities or without, than West.
There's a big difference between the training provided by higher education -- which technology might entirely separate from institutions -- and the actual experience of college.
I took a gap year and it actually changed my life. Although, I initially resisted the idea, wanting to stay "on track," I soon realized that this wouldn't "set me back" at all.
Teams raced to complete challenges designed by Googlers, featuring geek trivia, puzzles, a word association game, coding challenge, and game blitz. The event is designed to give students a taste of the Google lifestyle.
A Widow's Story is called a memoir, but the word seems too slight for the grandeur of what Joyce Carol Oates does in this work of startling intimacy, humanity, humility, and wisdom.
In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, narrator Nick Carraway remarks, "You can't repeat the past." To which Jay Gatsby replied, "You can't repeat the past? Why of course, you can."
Brooke's early years may have appeared glamorous to the outside world, but few knew of her life behind the scenes.
This week, Harvard announced that it would re-institute the early action policy it abandoned four years ago. Across the country, students, parents and high school counselors are heaving a sigh of relief.
Images obtained from scientific instruments: what makes some of them dance with visual delight?
"Neighbors" has given rise to countless confusing discussions about race and about art. The play isn't necessarily great art, but it does tap into something raw.
Prince Ali-Reza Pahlavi was no different than anyone else who feels the aftershocks of loss. Sadly, his family will now tread that well-traveled, all-too-familiar inner landscape of grief as well.
The pressure to get into a very specific kind of college has become, in many areas, integral to pre-college education.
Thanks to WikiLeaks, this arguably anachronistic method of communication -- cables -- are, despite their lack of "coolness," actually being read and discussed worldwide
What do the disasters of George W. Bush, the Wall Street melt-down, and the poison of the Tea Party all have in common? Politicos and their puppet ma...
Léogâne, Haiti. I am perhaps the most excited I have been in my entire life as I prepare to move to Haiti next month. Ten months after the earthqu...
Dropping out of school wasn't always the plan. In fact, I had a much more sensible path charted out as I entered my senior year of high-school. Here's...
Try explaining your college in a few words to someone who isn't in-the-know. It's a delicate business. Why not do the obvious and compare your institution of higher learning with a popular rapper?
While these eco-capitalists are pouring their blood, sweat, and presumably some tears into the next great industrial revolution, Colin Beavan has a handy list of tips on how you and I can create less trash.
Students would be well-advised to look not just as the flashy top 50 lists of best colleges and universities, but also to scrutinize the less sexy but equally or more important list of average student debt-load.