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Bachelor’s at Community College: The “No” Perspective, Part One
Would you ask Pepsi to make Coke? You want your heart surgeon to do your brain surgery? Do you want the Common App…scratch that. The current buzz in California higher education is discussion around community colleges offering bachelor’s degrees. Although there are many “No” arguments, I will focus on two. First, we (and I take…
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Free Financial Aid Resources
I don’t know about you, but financial aid is one subject that always makes me nervous. I have attended workshops, read books and viewed tutorials, but in no way do I consider myself an expert when it comes to people’s money. I do, however, feel a responsibility to provide families with reliable resources to help…
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One Small Step…
Recently, my son came in from playing with his neighborhood buddies. He was wearing an orange Neil Armstrong NASA spacesuit. This isn’t a rare occurrence, as he often goes about daily life wearing a costume. He has a vivid imagination and his own ideas about what is cool. The costumes are one of my favorite…
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How to Wake Up Like an Adult
Welcome to the inaugural post of the soon-to-be underwhelming and probably-not-famous blog, ‘How to Be an Adult.’ It’s my first blog post, so I figured I would tackle the first thing we all have to do in the morning: waking up. Now, if you’re like me (i.e. lucky), then this is probably one of the…
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Don’t Act Like You Hit a Triple When You Were Born on Third Base…
So, it’s the second semester of senior year. Students can see the finish line, but it still seems “so far away”. They are stuck in this weird holding pattern. Most of their college apps are finished and submitted. They are now forced to do something that they just aren’t used to: hurry up and wait.…
