So … your professor/teacher/boss/jedi master has made it known that she wants you to write an abstract with your research paper. Fine. Dandy. Just how does one go about writing an abstract, you wonder? Don’t worry. If you’ve got the research paper (or lab report) done already, an abstract’s not too tough. Most abstracts are [more...]
Big name companies are now realizing that to cultivate brand awareness and catch the customer early in life, a good place to start marketing is in universities or colleges. Companies are now recruiting students to act as their representatives and promote their products to fellow students. For students it can be useful source of income [more...]
In Austria, a university professor teaches and does research at a university, of course, just like everywhere else in the world. So why do these Austrian professors need “university” added to their title? You guessed it: there are professors in Austria who are not related to a university in any professional way. A couple of [more...]
Interested in taking a few college courses for free? You can do it online at some of the most prestigious universities in the world, all at no charge. At the Massachusetts Institution of Technology…good old MIT…you can take advantage of their MITOpenCourseWare offerings. There are more than 1,900 free online classes here, graduate and undergraduate, [more...]
Exactly what were mom and dad doing back in their college days? Seeking new knowledge in the library, or sneaking out the dorm for a midnight rendezvous? Getting stoked for the big game, or getting a secret smoke behind the gym? I can’t tell you all the details, but maybe with a bit of prompting, you can get [more...]