money

Does Everyone Starve in Graduate School?

October 7, 2010

Mike’s headed off to grad school — that lovely purgatory between the dream-world of college and the hellish incinerator that is the working world. Is grad school the bread line that it’s mythologized to be? Hey, thank you for taking the time to answer my question and give advice on others. You’re welcome. Thanks for [...]

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Money vs. Happiness Part II: Elizabeth Strikes Back!

April 7, 2010

I mean, first we were talking very generically about private schools, expensive schools, “name” schools, etc. But now, we find we’re dealing with the biggest “name” school of them all — the one name that, above all others, really does carry a lot of weight in every corner of the world.

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Money vs. Happiness: Should Elizabeth Take What’s Behind Door #3?

April 6, 2010

Ridiculous as it may seem, many states put more emphasis on teaching teachers to teach, rather than teaching them anything worth teaching.

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The $150,000 Scholarships That Aren’t on Fastweb

July 29, 2009

First of all: Bookmark this page! You’ll want to re-read it many times in the near future. And since you opened it, I’m going to assume that you’re at least a tiny bit interested in a scholarship that would pay you $150,000. After all, it’s not like you haven’t thought about this topic before. If [...]

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Don’t beg.

March 26, 2008

A popular phrase around my house, and maybe yours too, was: “It never hurts to ask!” The phrase would be uttered concerning a great variety of things, but to keep it simple here, it was usually when I wanted something that someone else had and was too timid to inquire about whether I could have [...]

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Why Wasn’t This Site Around Before Now?

March 26, 2008

Good question. It was only a few short years ago that I made the decision to do all of my company’s philanthropy through scholarship programs for students around the world. Since then, my team has received hundreds of thousands of scholarship essays from students from every corner of the globe. And I do mean every [...]

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