Category Archives: Colleges
Advice From President Obama: Participate and Persevere
President Obama gave the commencement address at the Ohio State University graduation ceremonies yesterday. The days leading up to the ceremony were full of trepidation for me personally. I was concerned about the lengthy lines at security checkpoints and all the other stuff that you have to go through when the President stops in. Ohio [...]
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Thinking Law School? Think Again.
This seems to come up every year around this time. Law school just isn't the attractive option that it once was.
This Has To Be A Joke. Right?
Prison is commonly used as a metaphor, and football players are often stereotyped as criminal thugs. Who in their right mind thought it would be a good idea for a private prison company to be the named sponsor on a university’s football stadium? Here’s Paul Swangard, managing director of the Warsaw Sports Marketing Center at [...]
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The Curse Comes Full Circle.
I read the news today, oh boy. Lisa, elder daughter of Chili Dog, is graduating from the Ohio State University this May. The commencement exercises will be held May 5 inside Ohio Stadium. The address will be provided by Barack Obama. Among other major inconveniences sure to follow, I have learned that graduates will be [...]
A Terrible Idea.
The Dish points to a proposal in Florida which involves reducing or freezing college tuition for STEM majors while subsidizing the freeze with hikes in other, less socially desirable majors like philosophy. There are so many problems with this idea, that it is difficult for me to begin. Let me just say, the reward should [...]
$2.5 Billion, With a B.
the Ohio State University has launched it latest fund raising campaign, and it’s a doozy. What’s even more amazing is the story from the Columbus Dispatch I’ve linked to below. Related articles OSU already half way to raising $2.5 billion
It Is A Scam.
In the past, we all went to high school knowing that there were different paths to trod. Some kids went to vocational school to learn a trade and that would be the extent of their schooling. Others went on a more general education path then entered the workforce in an unskilled capacity: cashier, stock boy, [...]
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It’s Just Stupid
College, like most things in life, is what you make of it. If you want to party and drink and skip class and not study, then chances are you won’t be there long. If you want to party and drink and go to class and study, then chances are you will probably do all right, [...]
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Joe Paterno is College Football’s Colonel Jessup.
A Few Good Men is one of those movies that I automatically stop and watch whenever I come across it while flipping channels. I think it is mostly because it is a great character story with pretty good acting. I mean the movie has Bacon, Jack, Demi, Tom Cruise (is that his real name?), Keifer, [...]
Who are the No. 1 Seeds?
Kentucky obviously gets the top seed overall. Syracuse nails down a number 0ne. That leaves two remaining. There are several scenarios for those last two spots. 1. Big 12 champion, if its Kansas or Missouri, should get the third number one. 2. ACC champion, if its Duke or North Carolina, probably get the last one, [...]