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A Beautiful (Organized) Mind

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By Adrian Cho, Ph.D. “All the noise in my brain. I clamp it to the page so it will be still.” –Barbara Kingsolver When I was in high school, I didn’t keep any notes. In my youthful arrogance, I…
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Killing Your Darlings

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By Adam Muri-Rosenthal, Ph.D. If you here require a practical rule of me, I will present you with this: ‘Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it—whole-heartedly—and…
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The 10 Commandments of Being Online

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By Victoria Tillson Evans, Ph.D. I have seen it all – alcohol, curse words, even boobs. This is just a sampling of what has turned up on spur-of-the-moment requests to see my students’ social media…
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What Really Matters Most to Colleges

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By Victoria Tillson Evans, Ph.D. Several years ago, the mom of one of my students expressed her frustration that no one before me told her that her son’s transcript was going to be the most important…
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It’s a Cruel Summer… Or Is It?

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By Adam Muri-Rosenthal, Ph.D. Child of a single working mom, Daniel has just moved from New Jersey to California where he lives in the only ramshackle apartment complex in Reseda that his mother can afford…
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