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Moultrie Technical College to offer GED
Test prep online

Moultrie Technical College to offer GED
Test prep online 07/17/2004 06:26 AM
Moultrieobserver.com - Sat Jul 17, 06:30 am GMT

PVRs Prep For Add-On Storage

PVRs Prep For Add-On Storage 04/28/2004 05:31 PM
The infrastructure to allow users to store PVR video on external storage devices is beginning to be deployed, although rights management issues still represent a significant hurdle.

Developers Prep for Oracle

Developers Prep for Oracle 01/03/2005 08:25 AM
Third-party software developers that make their living selling add-on enterprise resource planning applications are bracing for a seismic shift in their business.

Online only: Gulliver Prep too much for
Horizon

Online only: Gulliver Prep too much for
Horizon 03/22/2005 05:01 PM
Azcentral.com - Tue Mar 22, 12:03 pm GMT

Rescuers Prep for Hybrid Car Accidents

Rescuers Prep for Hybrid Car Accidents 05/04/2004 03:15 PM

VeriSign Secures 90% of Tax Prep Sites

VeriSign Secures 90% of Tax Prep Sites 04/05/2005 07:50 PM
Web Host Industry Review Apr 5 2005 10:46PM GMT

Expert: Prep for Linux 2.6 Deployment
Now

Expert: Prep for Linux 2.6 Deployment
Now 01/22/2004 02:53 AM
With the recently unleashed kernel poised for real-world deployment by mid-year, IT managers must load-test now to ensure their networks are compatible.

SCM Vendors Prep Products with More
Integration

SCM Vendors Prep Products with More
Integration 05/04/2004 10:41 PM
With bolstered balance sheets, supply-chain-management vendors gear up to meet challenges.

Prep for Tomorrow with an IPv6 Testbed

Prep for Tomorrow with an IPv6 Testbed 09/22/2004 02:20 PM

Next-Gen DVD Camps Prep for Price War
(PC World)

Next-Gen DVD Camps Prep for Price War
(PC World) 08/19/2004 12:04 PM
PC World - HD-DVD backers say their format is cheaper and easier to produce than rival Blu-ray.

Developers Prep for Oracle (Ziff Davis)

Developers Prep for Oracle (Ziff Davis) 01/03/2005 08:25 AM
Ziff Davis - Third-party software developers that make their living selling add-on enterprise resource planning applications are bracing for a seismic shift in their business.

Firms prep Wi-Fi Internet radio tuners

Firms prep Wi-Fi Internet radio tuners 04/23/2004 06:42 AM
Reg Kit Watch 10,000 stations without a PC

CNN.com - Rescuers prep for hybrid
car accidents - May 4, 2004

CNN.com - Rescuers prep for hybrid
car accidents - May 4, 2004 05/06/2004 06:03 AM
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Online Tax Prep, Filing Up
'Significantly': Study

Online Tax Prep, Filing Up
'Significantly': Study 04/13/2004 09:02 PM
AVN Online Apr 14 2004 0:43AM GMT

DNC Security Prep Enters Final Hours
(AP)

DNC Security Prep Enters Final Hours
(AP) 07/25/2004 02:13 PM
AP - A team of U.S. Capitol Police carrying automatic weapons guarded a harborfront hotel and work crews dropped metal barriers around City Hall as security forces on Sunday completed preparations for the Democratic National Convention.

SearchEnterpriseLinux: Migration Prep,
Part 1: When to Switch from MS SQL to
MySQL

SearchEnterpriseLinux: Migration Prep,
Part 1: When to Switch from MS SQL to
MySQL 03/22/2005 09:46 PM
"But when there is a window of opportunity, Sheffey says companies should look into the open source database MySQL..."

HP, Motorola prep wares for cell phone
show

HP, Motorola prep wares for cell phone
show 02/18/2004 01:34 PM

Toshiba, Elpida prep 'industry's
fastest' DRAM

Toshiba, Elpida prep 'industry's
fastest' DRAM 03/31/2005 09:37 AM
XDR outing

Using Linux tools to prep digital photos
for email

Using Linux tools to prep digital photos
for email 04/29/2004 03:44 AM
Digital cameras capture images that are great for printing but generally unsuited for sending by email. The files are often too large, poorly named, and many images need to be rotated. Luckily, a number of open source tools are well-suited to solving these problems quickly.

Prep School Peers Found Kerry Talented,
Ambitious and Apart

Prep School Peers Found Kerry Talented,
Ambitious and Apart 05/15/2004 01:03 PM
Many of the qualities that propel John Kerry and daunt him are the same ones that buoyed and bedeviled him when he was 16 and striving to succeed.

Kerry, Bush curtail schedules as they
prep for duel (USATODAY.com)

Kerry, Bush curtail schedules as they
prep for duel (USATODAY.com) 09/27/2004 07:25 AM
USATODAY.com - President Bush and Sen. John Kerry began to narrow their focus and limit their public schedules Sunday in preparation for their much-anticipated first debate, to be held Thursday in Miami.

""The fact is, if third- or fifth-grade
students made the mistakes made in the
test prep materials, they would be
flunked and no one would be asking them
for an explanation.""

""The fact is, if third- or fifth-grade
students made the mistakes made in the
test prep materials, they would be
flunked and no one would be asking them
for an explanation."" 03/26/2005 09:39 PM

You Can Pay for College

You Can Pay for College 09/22/2004 08:42 AM
Tips and resources galore are at your fingertips.

Getting Through College, Thanks To
Plagiarism

Getting Through College, Thanks To
Plagiarism 11/13/2003 05:25 AM
There have been plenty of stories about college kids cheating by buying or just cutting and pasting complete assignments for their classes, but this BBC piece includes a quote from someone claiming that she basically did that on every paper she's turned in throughout college, and is now using the same cut-and-paste method to finish up her dissertation. Clearly, that's an outlier example, but it does show how far people will go. The article includes lots of quotes from people who complain about the dumbing down of our education system that has allowed this to happen, but I'm not sure that's the case. Kids have always cheated in school. This just makes the process easier. Of course, what they don't mention is that the real punishment is already being handed out to these kids. They're attending (and in many cases paying quite a bit) four years of college and not learning a damn thing, because all they're doing is cutting and pasting.

What Will College Really Cost?

What Will College Really Cost? 04/19/2004 03:14 PM
You've heard the scary statistics, but the final price tag may not be so bad.

When Brooklyn goes to college

When Brooklyn goes to college 01/23/2004 09:49 PM
The BBC's Mike Baker looks at how universities might be run in 2020.

Saving for College

Saving for College 01/22/2004 11:34 AM
College costs can be managed with proper planning.

Hacker college

Hacker college 07/07/2004 07:52 AM

College backs off Wi-Fi ban

College backs off Wi-Fi ban 09/16/2004 04:51 PM
Tensions ease at the University of Texas at Dallas when administrators reverse restrictions on Wi-Fi use.

How to Invest for College

How to Invest for College 05/07/2004 08:57 AM
One size doesn't fit all when it comes to college savings.

How to Save for College

How to Save for College 04/22/2004 02:54 PM
College is expensive, no doubt about it -- but you can afford it.

College To Do Away With Fair Use

College To Do Away With Fair Use 12/17/2003 09:34 PM
The latest silliness from our college campuses is this bit of news from Ithaca College, where they're planning to tell professors that fair use no longer exists when it comes to course packs (the photocopied excerpts from various sources that many professors use to give students short excerpts from a variety of sources). While most such course packs do involve some approved material, much of it is often used on a fair-use basis - but university administrators are afraid of getting sued. Thus, they're going to tell professors that they need to license every last bit of content they use. This means that (a) professors will ditch a lot of materials, because they don't have time to get approval from everyone or because the publisher wants too much money to include a single paragraph and (b) the course packs will be much more expensive with less useful stuff for students. In some cases, professors will simply put the materials on library loan, where students will go and photocopy it anyway - basically adding an "annoyance" factor to the process. It's a great lesson we're teaching the students of today when they don't get to read certain materials because it's just too damn expensive.

Best undergrad college regardless of
price?

Best undergrad college regardless of
price? 12/17/2004 06:35 PM

I know a high school senior with 1600 on his SATs.  His parents were not sufficiently loving to change their last name to "Rodriguez" so he is not a shoo-in affirmative action candidate at America's most elite colleges.  Nonetheless with his perfect SAT scores he ought to get into some pretty good schools.  The question is where should he apply and attend?

After observing the behavior of MIT and Harvard faculty compared to professors at small town liberal arts schools I'm beginning to wonder if the biggest name schools represent a good choice even for a kid with infinite money.  In the old days you had to worry about whether faculty at research universities would pay attention to undergrads amidst the distractions of applying for grants and supervising graduate students and postdocs to perform on those grants.  Nothing has changed there except that competition for grants has become ever more fierce, forcing the professors to spend a bit more time applying and writing up results.  For an undergrad who actually wants to see and do research it might make sense to choose a school like MIT where there are substantial opportunities for undergrads to get into labs.  The professors might ignore the undergrads in the classes that they teach but they won't ignore the motivated undergrads helping with their funded research.

The big change compared to the 1960s and 1970s is the affordability of housing close to the campuses of some of the top research schools.  A Harvard or MIT professor who wants to live in a family-sized house will either need to spend two hours per day commuting from the exurbs or two days per week consulting to pay for the $1.5 million house in Cambridge.  In the old days a junior professor hurried from the classroom to the lab.  Today she hurries from the classroom to the lab and then tries to depart the campus by 4 pm to beat the traffic out to the exurbs.  She won't spend the evening taking her students out for dinner; if she is socializing it will be with folks unrelated to the university who live near her house.

For personal attention from the faculty it would seem that one should restrict one's college search to schools in areas where real estate is still cheap enough that professors live close to campus.  Brown would be good.  Harvard would be bad.  Some schools are near cheap housing but are still bad due to the fact that they are in crime-ridden ghettos (Yale and Penn?).  Amherst and Williams should be good.

What else should matter to the young male applicant?  How about girls?  The 17-year-old boy with 1600s on his SATs probably hasn't had time to become captain of the football team and do the other things that appeal to high school babes.  Why then subject oneself to four more years of rejection and frustration by attending a college where girls are in short supply?  Fifty-seven percent of bachelor's degrees are awarded to women in the U.S.  Why not choose a school where women are at least 57 percent of the students?  Remember that if 40 girls pair up with 40 boys that leaves 17 single girls for every 3 single guys!

Finally I guess we should tell the kid that if he and his parents don't have infinite money he should go wherever is cheap.  A motivated student can learn at most of the better colleges in the U.S.  A friend of mine was a brilliant high school student.  She went to Tulane in New Orleans as an undergrad where they gave scholarships for smart kids and where she could have a good time.  She went to MIT and got a PhD in physical science.  People sometimes do ask where she did her PhD work.  No potential employer would care where she was an undergrad.  For any field in which a graduate degree will be required it doesn't make sense to spend family $$ on a fancy undergrad degree that nobody will care about (not even the grad school; they always ask "was this your best student in the last 10 years?" and no honest teacher at a top school is going to be able to say "yes" because being smart is so cheap at a place such as Harvard or MIT).

So... where do we tell young John Q. Nerdly to apply?  He has the good test scores and public high school grades.  He is considering majoring in Biology (smart kid!).  He likes to climb rocks.  He hasn't been doing that great with the ladies as far as I can tell (the best vehicle that he can generally muster is a dented 10-year-old Ford Taurus station wagon, which might explain some of this lack of success).  His parents could suck it up to pay for an Ivy League no-merit-scholarship cartel university but they'd rather not.

College heads protest to MPs

College heads protest to MPs 05/19/2004 09:06 AM
Heads of colleges of further education protest at Westminster over funding cuts.

Sad Adieu to College, and to Good Old
.edu

Sad Adieu to College, and to Good Old
.edu 06/16/2004 09:02 PM
It's graduation season. Along with this rite of passage come significant changes - including, for many, the need to relinquish a college e-mail address.

Sell College to Your Kids

Sell College to Your Kids 04/29/2004 03:00 PM
It's good for them to buy into the idea and to want to attend.

The liberal college conspiracy

The liberal college conspiracy 09/20/2004 08:24 AM
Conservatives like David Brooks love to blame academics for making lopsided donations to Democrats. A closer look reveals otherwise.

Will take college credit for food.

Will take college credit for food. 04/21/2004 03:46 PM
A huge number of internships are illegal. So claims a labor lawyer in this USA Today story. Are unpaid internships a form of white collar exploitation we should crack down on? Just how much of the workforce is unpaid, or working on tiny stipends? And is it like this in other Western countries?

ADV: Accredited College Degree

ADV: Accredited College Degree 04/07/2005 03:07 PM
Earn you college degree today. Almeda can convert your experience into an accredited college degree. What would you do with a college degree?
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