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Ace Your First Online Class
in The Online Universities Weblog, on January 16, 2008
...nth or so. Don't blemish your record with an "F" or a "W." If you decide to dropout before your online school's withdrawal deadline, you can usually get a full or pa...
Online Learning = Solution for College Dropouts
in The Online Universities Weblog, on November 27, 2007
I recently came across an article from Go College that examined the top 11 reasons college students drop out . As I considered each cause, I realized that many of these student's problems could have been solved by switching to a virtual university. Consider these common reasons for dropping o...
Die 25 Superhelden des Klimawandels
in Das Börsen Weblog, on November 7, 2007
Freunde aus Amerika haben mir Gaiam empfohlen. Das ist eine kleine Gesellschaft, die sich ganz auf nachhaltiges Wirtschaften und Handeln konzentriert hat. Auf ihren Internetseiten finden sich viele Informationen. Auch die Aktie ist zuletzt gut gelaufen, aber schon ein erster Blick auf die Ke...
Whoops: Duke University Dropout Was Cisco's Fault, not Apple's
in The Wireless Weblog, on July 23, 2007
Ars Technica's Jacqui Cheng reports that last week's big story about Duke University's Wi-Fi network being destroyed by iPhones was... well... wrong.
"Cisco worked closely with Duke and Apple to identify the source of this problem, which was caused by a Cisco-based ne...
七百匹马力的跑车，豪迈的很……
in Wangtam, on April 14, 2007
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Hacker. Dropout. CEO.
in The Social Networking Weblog, on April 11, 2007
FAST COMPANY -- Apr 11 -- Facebook has 19 million users, half of which log on each day, is the 6th most-trafficked site in the U.S., 1% of all Internet time is spent on Facebook (ComScore), and is the #1 photo-sharing site on the Web, with 6 million pictures uploaded daily, and should bring in $...
Legacies Don't Make the Grade
in The Universities Weblog, on March 26, 2007
...selective colleges that are the most committed to admitting the children of alumni have the highest dropout rates among such students, says the paper, published in the current issue of the journal Soc...
Online Education May Be The Key To Improving College Graduation Rates
in The Online Universities Weblog, on May 16, 2006
Educators all over the world, as in this recent story from the University of Tennessee, are using online college courses for a variety of reasons. One of those reasons is purely practical, and yet, hopeful: to keep students from dropping out. Officials hope that students who weary of a traditio...
Online vs. Traditional Students: What Are the Differences?
in The Online Universities Weblog, on April 5, 2006
... troubling result was a perceived lack of motivation in online students, evidenced by higher course dropout rates.
But is this fair to assign to the students themselves, or could it be a sign that on...
The Facebook Phenomenon
in The Dating Weblog, on October 31, 2005
... Corp and
Viacom have shown interest in meeting with young Mark Zuckerberg, the
21-year-old Harvard dropout who started Facebook in his dorm in February 2004, and came into MarketWatch's San Fran...
Dangers of rapid heroin detox
in Straightfromthedoc, on August 24, 2005
...ping addicts clean. Eighty percent of the anesthesia patients dropped out of follow-up treatment, a dropout rate slightly higher than for another method in the study.
And three of 35 anesthesia patie...
A Critique of MFA Programs
in The Universities Weblog, on June 24, 2005
...fessional contacts.
For an inside look at the MFA experience, consider this diatribe from a recent dropout:
I was admitted to a prestigious program in the Northeast. On the first day of my workshop...
Forbes on "Food Porn"???
in Businesspundit, on February 7, 2005
...l and organic foods, Whole Foods got its start in 1978 when John Mackey, then 25 years old, a fresh dropout from a succession of three Texas colleges, borrowed $45,000 from friends and family to open ...
Mass Pike is Ventura Highway
in The Universities Weblog, on January 12, 2004
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And he's certainly right about one thing: In America, anyone can make it. Heck, even a college dropout can teach at Harvard....
Microsoft's Cash
in Businesspundit, on July 23, 2003
...oft, whose co-founder and Chairman Bill Gates is the world's wealthiest and most famous college dropout, has nearly one-tenth of all cash on hand reported by all companies whose shares make up the...