Do you have any idea how difficult it is to find a respectable online Masters program? If you know the secret, please share it in the comments. I’ve considered an online degree program because of it’s convenience. However, if I were to be accepted to Cornell’s Master of Management in Hospitality program (I think I [...]

Just kidding! (about the 15 minutes, not about the career search) I would be fulfilled if I could write about my never-ending quest for higher-education and hobbies and get paid for it for the rest of my life. (I wouldn’t even ask for a raise as long as I could pay my bills–honestly!) However, I [...]

“America, ever-idealistic, seems wary of the vocational-education track. We are not comfortable limiting anyone’s options. Telling someone that college is not for him seems harsh and classist and British, as though we were sentencing him to a life in the coal mines. I sympathize with this stance; I subscribe to the American ideal. Unfortunately, it [...]

I have been very privileged and I wonder if that qualifies me or disqualifies me when it comes to giving advice on education. My parents are well-educated and planned from the beginning to have well-educated children. They put money away to put my brother and me through school. My mother patiently helped me with my [...]

Thomas L. Friedman, op-ed columnist for the New York Times, recently wrote this article. I strongly encourage you to read the whole thing, but I will share with you the bottom line: ” We’re not going back to the good old days without fixing our schools as well as our banks.” Our economy didn’t break [...]

The situation is out of control. 6-year-old Cub Scout faces 45 days in a reform school for taking a utensil to school 8-year-old suspended for sniffing a marker 13-year-old strip searched under suspicion that she had ibuprofen I have been baffled by the enforcement of no-tolerance policies in schools across the nation. There are 22 [...]

How well do you spell? Is it ridiculous to pose such a question to an adult? I think not! Misspelled words and grammatically incorrect sentences really bother me. The thought that they are more widespread than ever is like nails on the chalkboard of my life. I have often wondered how children turn into teenagers [...]

Eric and I got into a heated debate this past weekend. He claimed that the world would be a better place if everyone had a math or science degree. While it was kind of him to include social sciences like psychology and sociology (which I was sure he would exclude, considering his pomposity when it [...]

My long-term aspirations involve a PhD in linguistics and a large cherry wood desk with a stacks of my own research surrounding me. Short-term, I need a more flexible career so that I can get a jump start on this higher education thing I adore so much. Working 8:00-5:00pm with an hour-long commute each way [...]

I took the GRE yesterday. Two months of preparing for the GRE, two weeks of fretting and 3 hours later, I emerged unscathed. While I am not going into the GRE hall of fame, I shouldn’t have any trouble getting into my program with my scores. I do believe that there were quite a few [...]