Archive for July, 2010

Why Go To a Small School?

Big state schools can oftentimes cause problems for many kids out there. Whether it’s because they’re just treated like a number or have a hard time meeting people, there really can be a lot of unseen problems with big schools. So that’s why so many people out there are turning to smaller, most of the [...]

Is Public School for You?

When many students these days think of public high schools, images of dirty, underfunded schools come to mind. They just think of teachers who mail it in for their paychecks and disgusting school lunches while private schools give the images of fancy gourmet food and pretty much any kind of amenity you could possibly imagine. [...]

Technical High Schools

Technical high schools are often, in many places, becoming trendy picks of students who aren’t trying to go to great colleges and change the world. If you just want to be prepared for a certain job, these are really the places for you. But are they really better than public schools? I’ll give you my [...]

High School Computer Education

Most public high schools out there probably don’t have the most modern of computers. Often most schools have machines from the late 1990s that are packed with such features as Microsoft Office 97 and Internet Explorer 2. Pretty much anything modern isn’t anywhere near these machines and won’t be seen in any public high school [...]

Computer Science: The Wave of the Future

About twenty years ago whenever you’d go into any kind of classroom or workplace, most people would be only using paper or a notebook or using some sort of way to write manually. They really knew no other way. If we told them how society is today with the computer, laptop and iPhone dominating nearly [...]

Why Your School Nurse is Useless

You’ve probably had some sort of nurse as your school as far back as you can remember. They always seemed to take care of whatever ailments a kid on the playground could get and really seemed like they knew what they were doing. But as you got older you probably stopped seeing the nurse. Why?

School Health Centers

When you’re at home, your parents usually have some kind of health insurance provided that they are employed. Even if they don’t they can still take you to an emergency room if not the local doctor. At school though your parents aren’t there to take you places for all your little problems. But there is [...]

Campus Media

When you live at home, you’re parents often have newspapers delivered that show all the national news as well as the local news. You can effectively know every news worthy even going on around your hometown thanks to the local section of the newspaper. But what about when you go off to college? Are there [...]

Studying Abroad

Every semester a small minority of the campus population disappears. Do they drop out of school? Do they just decide to commute from now on? Have you just not run into them? Well, it turns out they haven’t just left the school, they‘ve left the entire country, possibly even the continent. Studying abroad is a [...]

International Students

People from all over the world are coming to America all the time. Whether it’s from places like Europe, Far Asia or India, they come from all over for the opportunity, culture and new lease on life. Their home countries are often restrictive an immigrating is the best way to change their lives. But what [...]