This is the 2nd article in a series about using the Internet and social media as an educational resource.
So, you’re preparing for a big trip and you want to brush up on a language. Or maybe you’re at a decent level and want to take things up a notch. Whatever your reason, we all want to feel like a native when abroad, and we’ve all heard that immersion is the best way to learn a language.
Tags: Education, language, music
Categories: campus geek
This is the 1st article in a series about using the Internet and social media as an educational resource.
Cute kittens and people getting hit where the sun don’t shine. That’s what YouTube’s all about, right?
Wrong. Though the funny, adorable and delusional have all found their niche on YouTube, a lot of people aren’t aware that the website gives you access to some of the best educational resources in the world, for free.
Tags: Education, grovo, teachers, YouTube
Categories: campus geek
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This time of year it’s almost as if everything is in a state of limbo. Some students are preparing for their upcoming Graduations, while others are looking forward to a relaxing Summer holiday. No matter the case, all students are faced with the same stresses and deadlines. We hope to relax, yet motivate you at the same time. So, whether you still have assignments to push through or finals to prepare for, kick back and enjoy this week’s NSCS weekly playlist!
Check back and tune-in next week for a playlist to prepare for and push through those finals.
Bianca Williams graduated from the University of Arizona where she spent 4 years as a DJ and PA for KAMP Student Radio, as well as interning for a local record/concert promotion company. She possess a love for all things New Media, traveling, languages, film, radio, photography, vintage bikes, snowboarding… everything! and is in pursuit of a career in freelance writing. All of her musical tastes and influences come from her world travels and the amazing people who have shared their lives with her along the way. Bianca is a member of The National Society of Collegiate Scholars and works as an NSCS Social Media Ambassador. Follow her on Twitter @biancadene.
Tags: A-Trak, Bianca Dene Williams, Bloc Party, BSBD, college, Echo & The Bunnymen, John Talabot, Murs, music, Nacho Picasso, NSCS, Orelsan, playlist, pop geek, Regina, The Futureheads, VHS or BETA
Categories: pop geek
Nearly 70 percent of high school students go to college today. In the 1990s each job posted on a job site had 20 applications, but now each job posted on the same site has nearly 200 qualified applicants. It is an understatement to say that it is hard to get noticed as a young professional.
In fact, I think getting hired for a job that is equivalent in value to how much we spend on college is nearly impossible. Getting a job is like finding an endangered bird in the sky. Not only are there more people going to school who are qualified for the same job, there are also fewer jobs out there.
Thanks to last week’s #FixYoungAmerica campaign, you are familiar with the youth unemployment crisis. Only 54 percent of 18-24 year olds have a job, which means nearly half of us are dependent on our parents or the loans that we took out for school. According to Pew Research in DC, 85 percent of the May 2011 college graduating class said they are moving back home with their parents. These students are known as the boomerangers because instead of starting their lives, they’re back home repaying the loans they took out for the future they were promised.
So what do you do?
Tags: Accelerate Your Success, biz geek, career, college, EJ Carrion, high school, Student Accelerator, Student Success Academy
Categories: biz geek
This week I was in five different airports in three days and decided to do a bit of an experiment. Usually when I travel, my attention is either on: my blackberry, my laptop, my kindle, or trying to make it through security and then find overhead room with way too much carry-on luggage. I am in me-world: focused on myself, my to-do’s, my schedule, my stuff.
The experiment I engaged in was to check out of me-world for a while and check in to the world. I wondered what I would notice if put aside my electronic addictions and paid attention to the world around me. I consciously engaged in not only people watching, but listening as well. I loved observing how people interacted and responded to each other. Sure I may not have been as productive, but if I had stayed in me-world I would have missed out on witnessing two women toast their first girls-trip together with girlish enthusiasm, an elderly gentleman go out of his way to assist a young woman struggling upstairs with her luggage even though he was probably weaker than she was, a business man waiting for his wife at the airport holding a paper sign with a big heart probably hand drawn with a pink highlighter from his office, and a couple at dinner being thoroughly entertained and engaged in the stories their children were sharing.
Tags: advice, Albert Einstein, Christine Hassler, inspiration
Categories: campus geek
