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• Debating the Value of Pre-MBA Work Experience

  
  Stacy Blackman Consulting - MBA Admissions — Authority: 129
  The standard advice to have five years of work experience before pursuing an MBA may not be so advantageous after all, writes marketing and ethics professor Mark Johnston in a recent BusinessWeek piece. The average age of a first-year MBA is now 28, up from 25 just ten years ago, and dropping out of the ...
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• UB researcher develops formula that can ID music industry payola

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 648
  BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A University at Buffalo researcher has invented a statistical method that can detect payola-like corruption in the music industry, a system that gives law enforcement an inexpensive statistical guide to identify potential music corruption and to better target more traditional and much more costly ...
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• Studying!

  
  Saving To Pay Down My Home — Authority: 121
  For the next month my priority is studying for my qualifying exams. I dont have classes or research to occupy my time. Im working on creating a schedule that will keep me productive and sane. Im not sure if it is possible. In order to create a structured day around something that can be done anywhere or at any ...
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• Stephen Toulmin, Critical Thinking, and Child Development

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  The recently-announced death of the philosopher Stephen Toulmin reminded me of graduate school, where I so frequently heard the words "Toulmin says" pronounced by faculty and graduate students alike. Toulmin paid close attention to the nature of argument and persuasion, and in doing so provided some lessons for those ...
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• In School Deferment of Federal Student Loans

  
  Student Loan News, Updates and Blog Posts — Authority: 133
  While you are in college you are not required to make any payments on your federal student loans. These loans do not go into repayment until you graduate. However, in particular instances your lender might not know you are in school and put your loans into repayment. In these cases you need to fill out [...]
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• Texas Tech University to Honor Graduates

  
  Texas Tech Today — Authority: 440
  Texas Tech University will award diplomas to 2,064 students during graduation exercises Dec. 18 and 19. The commencement speaker for all ceremonies is Texas Tech University System Chancellor Kent Hance. Texas Tech’s Graduate School will hold its commencement ceremony at 4 p.m. Friday (Dec. 18) in the United Spirit ...
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• Contact lens induced hypoxia. “Application of a PMMA lens, but not that of an RGP lens, resulted in a reduction in cell size …”

  
  LASIK Eye Surgery — Authority: 132
  “Hypoxia impairs the barrier function of the corneal epithelium.” 1 “This function depends on tight junctions, of which zonula occludens (ZO)-1 is a major component.” Researchers from the Department of Ophthalmology, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube City, Yamaguchi, Japan; the ...
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• Kenmore Series 70 washer won’t start

  
  DIY Network - Home Improvement How-To & Projects : DIY Network — Authority: 157
  I have a Kenmore Series 70 heavy duty washer and the model # is 110.26732503. On Sunday it quit working completely. In the morning I did two loads of clothes – the first one finished fine and I started the second one but left before it was done. I’m assuming the second load finished with [...]
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• Persian Influence and Israelite Apocalypticism

  
  Perpetual Timothy — Authority: 116
  Perhaps all Im really doing is embarrassing myself, but I just hate to think that I would spend days of my life researching a topic, and then the only person I would ever share my discoveries with would be my professor. I know the thought has been burning in your mind: "Why, with the similarities of a metaphysical ...
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• QUICK Hits

  
  The Quick and the Ed — Authority: 571
  Tracking, Grouping, Leveling: What happens when students are sorted (or not sorted) based on their academic achievement? (Fordham Institute) Would you consider living off of $4.34 a day and sleeping in a 1994 Ford Econoline to save money in grad school?  One Duke student takes the challenge. (The News & ...
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• [Insert eye roll here]

  
  Overflowing Brain — Authority: 123
  So a few hours ago, I typed up most of a blog post about how mad I was at myself. I had a hugely stressful exam this morning, by far the biggest and scariest of my exam schedule, and I just didn’t do as well as I wanted. It was a practical exam, so no scantron, no desks, no pencil and paper, but rather ...
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• I Live In A Van Down By Duke University

  
  Educated Nation | Higher Education Blog — Authority: 120
  Duke University grad student Ken Ilgunas wrote a sublime piece in Salon.com about his own grand social experiment: He currently (until someone busts him after reading his article) lives in his van in a campus parking lot. Ilgunas went the standard student-loan route for his undergrad degree and hated the resulting ...
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• A Term In Review

  
  history-ing — Authority: 91
  Yesterday I handed in my final papers to officially conclude my first academic quarter at Stanford. With that in mind, here are my initial thoughts on being a graduate student: 1. I read a lot. I’ve never read this much in my life, and it took me most of the quarter to learn how to sit down and read books for ...
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• I DONT HAVE TO PAY FOR MY KIDS GRADUATE SCHOOL, DO I?

  
  NJ Family Legal Blog — Authority: 123
  New Jersey is one of the few states in the country that still requires divorced parents to pay for their childrens higher educations.  The term "divorced parents" is highlighted because married parents do not have the same obligation to pay for their childrens college education if they choose not to do so.  This ...
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• Finals

  
  Overflowing Brain — Authority: 123
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• Letter to the Editor: ‘Graduate School Grief’

  
  The Pioneer | Whitman news, delivered. — Authority: 436
  Dear Editor, I’d like to clarify some of the information written in the Pio article titled, “Graduate School Grief” on the front page of the Thursday, Dec. 3, issue. When I spoke with the author of the article at the Student Engagement Center on Wednesday, Dec. 2, I was told that this article was being ...
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• Are holiday and weekend eating patterns affecting obesity rates?

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 648
  PITTSBURGH -- The holidays can be challenging for even the most diligent dieters. But are weekends just as detrimental? Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn., found that weekend eating patterns change significantly. ...
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• I Believe, Part Eight

  
  Perfectly Cursed Life — Authority: 123
  I believe it’s okay for me to load up on carbs and sugar prior to my date of giving it up (December 27, 2009).  I have to start from somewhere, might as well be somewhere good. I believe I will find success with my writing. I believe in the marvel of modern medicine. I also believe in the wisdom of ancient ...
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• Finding Human Resources Graduate Certificates Online

  
  About Online Degrees — Authority: 118
  Today, the role of Human Resources managers are becoming increasingly important .The field of Human Resource management has evolved to include many social issues that affects businesses daily. No longer is the role of Human Resource manager limited to mundane duties such as handling paperwork, recruiting and training ...
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• The benefits of grading

  
  Musings of a Christian Psychologist — Authority: 120
  Believe it or not, not all of grading is drudgery. It can be if you have to read 20 papers summarizing the same stuff. But, reading response papers actually teaches the professor. You learn what the students actually heard, you see connections even you failed to make, and more. We faculty groan when we grade, but ...
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