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How To Get Into Harvard. Seriously.
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Ever wanted an Ivy League education, a degree with a host of Latin on it, and to be able to say you graduated with your Masters from Harvard? It's possible and I'm living proof. This is one of those little-known thing...
5 Big Reasons Students Should Delete Their Facebook Accounts
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Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg has a very limited amount of respect for a user's privacy. After unveiling the Open Graph Protocol and all those now-familiar 'Like' buttons, Facebook started to rewrite the book on ...
The 5 Funniest Graduation Speeches Of All Time
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Who says commencement is supposed to be all about remembering your past, planning your future, and thanking your parents for paying a pantsload for you to graduate. We have come up with 5 fantastic graduation speeches...
How Social Media Can Revolutionize College Admissions
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How It Used To Work Rewind about 7-8 years and imagine you are applying to colleges for the first time. The process took months and included standardized tests on paper, handwritten applications, handwritten letters o...
The 50 Best Schools Using Social Media
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We wanted to reprise a popular and tremendously helpful list compiled by collegesurfing.com earlier this year. During the Winter Olympics, the site decided to award honors to the 50 best schools using social media. Wh...
Blogs As A Higher Ed Recruiting Tool: A How-To Guide For Schools
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It may seem like everyone and their mother has a blog these days. Unfortunately, higher ed administrators seem to behind the times in this department. Only a select few schools are actively encouraging staff, faculty,...
Where The Billions Go: Bill Gates On Why He Invests In Education
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Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft and professional worldwide mosquito-killer, has a simple new post up today on his blog GatesNotes. In it, he describes the effects some of his billions of dollars in investment in scho...
A Harvard Law 3L's Big Plans That Don't Involve Law
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When you think of law school, you think of lawyers, thick books, and courtrooms, right? When Darrell Bennett thinks of law school, he thinks of it as a springboard to greatness. A 3L about to graduate Harvard Law Scho...
In 1900, Studying For Exams Was Deadly
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Final exam time can be challenging for everyone. Whether you're a student, teacher, or staffmember, exams means crunch time. Even so, I was still a bit shocked to see this on a friend's facebook status today: back in ...
Academic Earth: An Amazing Hulu-esque Source For Online Education Videos
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If you've used Hulu, you know how to use Academic Earth. It's a website that features many, if not all, the lectures from Ivy League schools that are open source and available to anyone. The class lectures featured on...
Harvard Rescinds Scholarship, Admission Due To Student’s Facebook Update [IMAGE]
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Spooky. We were just talking about how students are changing their facebook names to avoid the prying eyes of college admissions officers. Now this. We are not 100% sure of the authenticity of this, but there is a fac...
Is Foursquare Dangerous?
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After reading "Will Your College Be Covered in Virtual Graffiti?" on the Chronicle of Higher Ed, it reminded me of how behind the times some schools are. In one sentence, here's why: The notion of privacy has been all...
The Future of Open Access: Harvard Law Hosting Richard Danner
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The HLS Library is co-hosting a talk next Friday by Richard Danner, Senior Associate Dean for Information Services and Archibald C. and Frances Fulk Rufty Research Professor Of Law at Duke Law School. Professor Dan...
Harvard's Online and Free Class: The Future of Education?
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Bill Gates just wrapped up his speech here at Harvard's Sanders Theatre and he referenced a tremendous online site that could be the future of education. 'Justice with Michael Sandel' is put together by Harvard Univer...
Harvard Study: Good Deeds Give You Super Powers
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A recent Harvard study may have you reaching for your wallet next time you pass someone asking for a donation to charity. That's because the study claims people feel stronger and have greater willpower after donating ...
Bill Gates Visiting Harvard and MIT [VIDEO]
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You can watch the live stream right on EduDemic. The talk is taking place at Harvard University at Sanders Theatre from 3:00PM - 4:00PM EST. Live broadcast should begin around 2:45PM EST: What's Happening: As we...
