Maybe you showed up to campus to discover two mascots running around and for a split second you expected to hear “Oh barnacles!” from the short square one. Nope, it’s not Sponge Bob. It’s most likely you encountered the hero, Textbook Rebel, and...
Look alive college students because that boring, drab college classroom may soon go from shab to chic! A new proposal set forth by an associate professor at Texas Wesleyan University suggests a “radically flexible” new classroom environment, and it...
Accountants may choose to pursue one of four general career paths, all of which require a similar set of skills in order to succeed. In addition to strong mathematical and analytical skills, they also need to be able to express their findings clearly...
Apparently, Lady Gaga, 25, isn’t the only fashionista in the family. She’s also not the only member of her family to have attended a prestigious school in New York and earn enviable professional work at a young age, either! According to an...
In our country’s quest to create ever weirder delicacies, we can thank entrepreneur chef “Chicken” Charlie Boghosian, 42, for coming up with this summer’s must-have item: Fried Kool-Aid. “It tastes just like the drink, only you are eating...
Paraskevidekatriaphobia, from the Greek “Friday” and “Thirteen” is the “morbid, irrational fear of Friday the 13th”. No, we’re not making this up. Studies and statistics addressing the unluckiness of this date actually exist, but they’re...
If you’ve been watching the news at all lately, you’ve probably heard about the narrowly averted shutdown of the government, and how the compromise over the 2011 federal budget has affected spending on higher education. What you may not have heard...
Women have long earned less money than men for doing the same type of work, but a new report from the White House suggests that the wage gap is wider in the professions that women tend to choose. The White House report, “Women in America: Indicators...
Albeit U.S. colleges and universities have grown significantly in size and have become more developed throughout the years, there is no arguing that there always seems to be those “top ten” most popular degrees or the selected few that lead to the...
Twice a year, a mail survey provides results that give fairly accurate assessments of employment and income for specific occupations, primarily by industry and location, within our nation. This evaluation is administered by the Occupational Employment...