Recent grads, try taking a page from someone else’s book. College may be over, but that doesn’t mean you should put away your reading glasses forever. Instead, curl up with some of the great reads that Chris Schluep, a senior editor at Amazon, recommended to Business Insider. These books all contain stories, advice, or insight […]
Princeton University may have an acceptance rate of just 6.5%, and Harvard 5.2%, but neither compares to the exclusivity of Yale-National University of Singapore. Its acceptance rate: just 5% — 1.2 percentage points lower than Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Yale-NUS is a joint university program between the New Haven, Connecticut school and NUS, […]
• Beta Theta Pi pledge Timothy Piazza died February 4 after a fraternity event. • 18 fraternity brothers have been charged in connection with his death; eight brothers have been charged with involuntary manslaughter. • Piazza’s parents called the treatment of their son ‘torture.’ The parents of Timothy Piazza, the 19-year-old Penn State sophomore who […]
San Francisco teachers are some of the worst-paid educators in the state, despite living in what is by far the most expensive rental market in California, according to an investigation by the San Francisco Chronicle in 2016. Now the city is ponying up $44 million for San Francisco’s first teacher housing development, so public school […]
Bill Gates took to Twitter this morning to offer some words of wisdom to the class of 2017. Here’s what he had to say: SEE ALSO: This is the ‘safest’ age to give your child a smartphone, according to Bill Gates Like most good commencement speakers, he started out with some levity. Tweet Embed:https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/8641003576846090251/ New […]