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Nancy Thorson

2015-06-30

STAY CALM EVERYONE STAY CALM rest assured you have come to the right place. I’ve run a semi-successful (*cough cough* this is my modesty showing) humorous, social justice blog for three years (sorry, I'm not giving out the name for it here!). So now this blog-famous-extraordinaire is coming to you from inside her cubicle, and I have all the qualifications to tell you how you can have a successful tutoring blog.

STEP #1:
Make a blog through a professional site. Do NOT for all that is good in the tutoring age, use Tumblr as your platform. Wordpress or Blogspot are good to use because they give you free reign over content without unnecessary clutter on your home screen. Tumblr is for the recreational blog, not professional. Make sure you pick an appropriate format as well that isn’t too generic or too ostentatious. This means no black and white (unless you are trying to teach black and white photography), nothing you can describe as kawaii aka no pi...

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Standardized Testing: Are There Benefits?

Daniel Nguyen

2015-06-22

(Can preparation for the ACT & SAT help students in college?)

While the majority of standardized testing structures today feature inherent problems, the utilization of their practice oriented design can benefit students preparing for college-level work.

Standardized testing has many endemic structural flaws that make it problematic when gauging the potential proficiency of college-level students. Sometimes they fail to account for the individual backgrounds of test takers while striving to be universally qualifying. Inevitably, by their very nature, they exclude the multitude of unique intelligences that fall outside the realm of standardized testing’s grasp (e.g. astuteness, creativity, drive, etc.).

But despite their numerous flaws, college qualifying exams can also provide students with the opportunity to showcase skills in academically centered areas that most colleges value and require. The ACT tests students in the broad core subjects of academia like...

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Foreign Students in US: Resume Tips

Marta Amantea

2015-06-20

Learn English! Become a citizen! Go to school! Make new friends! Get a job! The amount of paperwork and demands launched at an international student from school and other institutions while adapting to culture shock can make the mind feel like a whirlwind– shifting and spinning at high speeds while the rest of the world seems to be on sturdy foundation. Rest assured- there is a solid leverage to help you gain a foothold in your field of study.

After being yanked in various directions– sign this ↓ , read that ↖ , fill this out ↔ – there is one more piece of paper that requires the utmost attention. A résumé, just a word at first, a funny looking word at that, fancy for: (1) a short document describing your education, work history, etc., that you give an employer when you are applying for a job, (2) a list of achievements, (3) a short description of things that have happened – kindly defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary o...

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Can a Foreign Student Work in the USA?

Emma Wu

2015-06-07

I am a loyal believer in equality and have a quite explicit and probably ironic view. So hold the applause, below is a humorous and satirical Q and A with the classic liberal, the stinky republican, and the independent with all of the technically correct answers.

Q: What type of visa do I have?

Liberal: As long as you’re attractive in a way that doesn’t uphold the narrow Eurocentric ideals of beauty, it doesn’t really matter, does it?

Conservative: If you get a visa, the government is wasting money, if you don’t get a visa, ...

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Choosing What Colleges to Apply to in Three Easy Steps

Kristin Barnes

2015-05-27

Every year, the formulaic responses from counselor to student is scrutinized and subsequently criticized, and it’s no wonder why. With the average public school guidance counselor in the United States having an obligation to nearly 500 students (a static ratio for over a decade) and half of the country’s public schools absent of a committed counselor all together, students are not getting the personal attention they require or deserve. Affluent private schools usually have the funding for their students to be walked through the process; but the less advantaged students who seek a better future or a competitive college are being wronged by this lack of funding.

In fact, the average prospective high school senior s...

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Speech for a Retiring Teacher

Christa Cuevas

2015-05-25

We’ve all had that one influential teacher that strives to, with the use of knowledge, shape us into better human beings. That passionate, hard-headed, yet loving individual whom, through years of very little appreciation, still managed to stick by the strong morals of true education. If you’ve experienced a bond with the person that I’m attempting to describe, as many of us have, writing a speech in his/her honor becomes a real struggle. I say struggle, because no matter what words you use or how you use them, in your eyes they will never truly live up to the greatness of the person they’re mentioning. So, what to do? Well, having been in your shoes, let me see if I can help. Writing a speech for a retiring teacher may not have to be as daunting as we first make it out to be in our heads. With the right guidelines and a clear direction as to where the speech will take its audience, whether it be giggles or tears or both, composing an ode for your personal Odysseus doesn’t have...

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Live Online Tutoring Jobs for College Students

Daniel Park

2015-05-23

Getting a higher education in the United States today is very expensive. Many students are forced to take out huge loans to pay for college, and end up paying them back for a very long time. Getting a job while you are in college can be a great way to compensate for this, but many students are unable to do so due to their academic obligations. That is why live online tutoring jobs for college students are becoming more and more popular – you can do them from the comfort of your dorm room, and all you need is a computer with an internet connection.

Live online tutoring jobs for college students can be found in many places on the internet – working for yourself on LRNGO.com is one of many great options for college students. Another great one is Tutor.com. This site offers tutoring services twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. You can look at the live online tutoring jobs for college students availabl...

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Do College Admissions Calculators Really Work?

Emma Wu

2015-05-19

I tried one of these college admissions calculators myself. You’d think that as a college sophomore I am well equipped with the ways of the application process, but because I was fortunate enough to scholarship my way through the early decision, I am still a novice in the field. So, to do what all semi-professionals do when they secretly have no clue, I googled college admissions calculators and clicked on the first link listed.

This website has you create an account and tell all about your personal information—where you’re from, all your test scores, GPA, rank, course rigor, etc. Then you list all of your prospective schools, and it spits out either (a) a scattergram of all the people who’ve self-reported their scores and grades and labeled them on this chart as waitlisted, accepted, or denied, and also adds a star where you belong on the chart. Then you can see whether Star You is close to the Green Acc...

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