The Degree Isn’t Everything When you’ve spent the last four years slaving away just to get a bit of faux-sheepskin in your hand, it’s tempting to see that sheepskin as the be-all and end-all of your future career. It’s not. A degree is useful, but what’s far more handy is… Read More →
A lot of students enter the colleges hoping for the long-lasting friendship links, good times, proficient knowledge and, in some cases, a new sense of life. Nonetheless, when the time for classes comes, they realize that college is also about struggles and challenges, great demands and sometimes broken expectations. College… Read More →
So, you graduated college. This is the moment we’ve all been waiting for. No relatives raising their eyebrows when you tell them that no, you haven’t dropped out yet (and yes, you’re still single, thanks), no more classes, no more essays – just the sweet relief of knowing that you… Read More →
How do you get teens thinking about fundamental issues of life? Experience shows that plain old rhetoric does little good; children (and, as a matter of fact, every one of us) should put their minds to the problem in question and arrive at a viewpoint as a result of conscious… Read More →
As a college student you will quite often get a task of preparing a group project in collaboration with one or several of your classmates. It may be an extremely taxing assignment, although not always due to the same reasons – especially if you don’t have a lot of experience… Read More →
Siddhartha Gautama Buddha is the central figure of Buddhism, a sage on whose teachings this religion has been founded. It is worth noting that he didn’t leave any written works, and his ideas were passed down in oral tradition, and first appeared in written form several centuries after his death… Read More →
The onset of information technologies in the last several decades considerably changed and continues to change our everyday lives, our habits, our economy. New industries appear, old ones disappear or change beyond recognition, and one of the industries that simply cannot ignore the technological progress is, of course, book production…. Read More →
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that time goes progressively faster and faster. Humankind has been living in pretty much unchanging conditions for thousands of years, then changes started to happen in the course of mere hundreds of years, then decades… and now the technological progress happens so fast… Read More →
Most international students are always on the lookout for new and viable scholarship opportunities provided by various institutions. Since, a number of such opportunities surface every month or so, students, have to be both vigilant and efficient. Applying for and keeping tabs on various scholarships is no easy feat, but… Read More →
So, you’ve gotten into a bad habit of skipping classes whenever you feel that it is in any way inconvenient to attend them, but still willing to mend your ways? In general, the most important piece of advice for anyone who wants to stop skipping classes is, duh, to stop… Read More →
