This past year I have met and established some wonderful friendships and collaborations on Twitter. I had the privilege of meeting Jenn Cohen of Sheldon Word Nerd this past summer. I thought it might be fun to list the college experts who I would love to meet IRL (in real life) in 2012. If [...]
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Myths about College Sports
By admin on Friday, November 4th, 2011 | No Comments
Are sports scholarships really the best scholarships available? Do colleges spend as much money on sports athletes as they do on academics? Are college sports programs profitable? This inforgraphic answers just about every question you might have about college sports. I just have one question: If these statistics are accurate, why do colleges put so [...]
Making wise college choices based on student debt
By admin on Thursday, November 3rd, 2011 | No Comments
Two-thirds of college seniors graduated with loans in 2010, and they carried an average of $25,250 in debt. They also faced the highest unemployment rate for young college graduates in recent history at 9.1%. The new report, Student Debt and the Class of 2010, includes average debt levels for the 50 states and District of Columbia [...]
Do you need $10,000 for college?
By admin on Tuesday, October 4th, 2011 | No Comments
Do you have a creative student? Writer, photographer, graphic artist, filmmaker, print designer, architect? Here’s their chance to enter a contest that could net them $10,000 for college. All they have to do is enter–how simple is that! THE ADOBE IMAGINATION CHALLENGE Adobe is looking for examples of unique self-expression, individualism and creativity using their [...]
Back to School Resources for parents and students
By admin on Wednesday, August 17th, 2011 | No Comments
My favorite lines from “You’ve Got Mail” are: “Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me wanna buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.” Newly sharpened pencils always remind me of back to school days. And when fall comes [...]
A day in the life of a college student…
By admin on Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011 | No Comments
…using a Sony Vaio S Series with the extended battery 7:45AM-Bummer. My alarm goes off and I have this saying stuck in my head: I went to sleep with gum in my mouth and now I have gum in my head. I knew it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad [...]
Charged and Ready–Sony Delivers!
By admin on Monday, July 11th, 2011 | 4 Comments
I can’t tell you the number of times my laptop battery has run down while I was at a coffee shop, on an airplane, or in the hospital waiting room. My old IBM Thinkpad’s battery holds a charge for about 4 hours and then it’s time to plug it in. My son’s Mac lasts about [...]
Choosing the right computer for college
By admin on Wednesday, July 6th, 2011 | No Comments
When my daughter was ready for college, she had hardly even used a computer. We had one computer in our home and that was my home office/work desktop. She was allowed to use it for research and type papers for school, but that was the extent of her computer usage. The college she chose to [...]
Free Webinar-College Essay Tips
By admin on Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 | No Comments
UPDATE: If you missed the webinar, here’s the link to the recording: http://www.videocollegeadvisor.com/gelb ************************** The essay is one of the key components of the college application. If you have a student that is contemplating college (even if they are in middle school), tonight’s webinar should be a priority. If you have a college-bound teen that will [...]
How to encourage your high school student to consider an internship
By admin on Monday, May 23rd, 2011 | No Comments
From an early age, my parents always encouraged me to think about the parallels between student life and working full-time. “Just like it’s our job to get up and go to work every day, it’s your job to get up and go to school every day,” I vividly remember my mom telling me as a [...]
