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The 11 best MCAT courses, based on your studying styleApril 7, 2021 at 4:39 PM If you buy through our links, we may earn money from affiliate partners. Learn more.
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A Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) score is required for entry to medical school.
Online courses and practice tests can help you study and even raise your MCAT score.
Below are some of the best options from The Princeton Review, Kaplan, Magoosh, and Blueprint.
Anyone with med school plans probably knows about the Medical Colleg...Tags: Reviews, Education, Trends, Features, Princeton, Online Learning, E-learning, Online Classes, Kaplan, MCAT, Princeton Review, Magoosh, Julia Pugachevsky, Critical Analysis, IP Graphics, Product Card 126 people like this. Like Over half a million people signed up for this free Princeton course on the science behind Buddhist meditation practices. I took it and came away with a better understanding of myself.April 5, 2021 at 12:47 PM If you buy through our links, we may earn money from affiliate partners. Learn more. Table of Contents: Static
Robert Wright, a lecturer at Princeton, teaches Buddhism and Modern Psychology on Coursera.
The class explores how Buddhist practices like meditation can scientifically improve mental health and wellbeing.
I signed up and learned how mindfulness and meditating can make me a happier and healthier person.
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One of the biggest aspects of Buddhism is meditation...Tags: Reviews, Education, India, Trends, New York Times, Princeton, Coursera, Online Learning, E-learning, Princeton University, Online Classes, Buddha, Buddhist, Wright, Robert Wright, IP Graphics 94 people like this. Like The 9 best GRE prep programs, courses, and webinars to sign up for, even if you only have a month to studyMarch 26, 2021 at 1:54 PM If you buy through our links, we may earn money from affiliate partners. Learn more.
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The GRE is similar to the SAT, testing your math and verbal skills for entrance to graduate school.
Depending on how much time you have, there are self-paced and structured online prep courses.
Below, find answers to FAQ and courses from Magoosh, Kaplan, The Princeton Review, and Udemy.
What is the GRE? The GRE (Graduate Record Ex...Tags: Reviews, Education, US, Trends, Features, Online Courses, Princeton, E-learning, Udemy, Online Classes, Kaplan, ETS, GRE, Princeton Review, Toefl, Magoosh 143 people like this. Like The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge: Part 2March 12, 2021 at 10:00 AM Editor’s Note: This month, MIT Open Learning’s Peter B. Kaufman has published The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge, a book that takes a historical look at the powerful forces that have purposely crippled our efforts to share knowledge widely and freely. His new work also maps out what we can do about it. In the coming days, Peter will be making his book available through Open Culture by publishing three short essays along with links to corresponding sections of his book. Today,...Tags: Google, Europe, Media, College, France, Wikipedia, Africa, History, Jimmy Wales, Princeton, Martin Luther King Jr, Newton, Peter, Facebook Twitter, Stallman, Richard M Stallman 95 people like this. Like America's oldest college debate society votes to strip Ted Cruz of a prestigious Princeton honor for public serviceMarch 6, 2021 at 10:31 AM Princeton University's American Whig-Cliosophic Society has voted to rescind its highest honor from Sen. Ted Cruz
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Princeton's American Whig-Cliosphic Society voted to strip Sen. Ted Cruz of a public service award.
Society members voted 37-32 in favor of rescinding the honor, The Daily Princetonian reported.
Cruz is facing criticism for his role in the insurrection on January 6 and an ill-timed Cancun trip.
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America's o...Tags: Politics, Texas, News, Education, College, Senate, America, Trends, Society, Joe Biden, Ted Cruz, News UK, Princeton, Cruz, Trump, Cancun 147 people like this. Like The 20 best US schools for business and management studiesMarch 3, 2021 at 4:00 PM Steven Senne/AP
QS Quacquarelli Symonds just released its annual world ranking of the best schools for 51 subjects.
Harvard University ranked at the top of the business and management ranking.
The following are the top 20 US schools from this ranking and where they placed on the global list.
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Global higher education research company QS Quacquarelli Symonds just released the 11th annual World University Rankings by Subject.QS published...Tags: Business, Texas, Education, Stanford, New York City, US, Careers, Los Angeles, Trends, Features, Mit, Chicago, Harvard, Harvard University, Cambridge, Philadelphia 138 people like this. Like The 20 best US schools for computer science and information systemsMarch 3, 2021 at 4:01 PM SeanPavonePhoto/Getty Images
QS Quacquarelli Symonds published its World University Rankings by Subject on Wednesday.
MIT ranked at the top of the computer science and information systems ranking.
These are the top US schools for computer science and information systems.
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Global higher education research company QS Quacquarelli Symonds just published its 11th annual rankings of the best global colleges and universities for 51 differen...Tags: Education, Stanford, New York City, US, Careers, Los Angeles, Trends, Atlanta, Features, Mit, Chicago, Cambridge, Columbia University, University Of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, Computer Science 86 people like this. Like A Princeton professor warned students not to take his class while in China amid the country's tightening grip on dissentJanuary 18, 2021 at 11:44 AM Blair Hall at Princeton University.
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Rory Truex, an assistant professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University, told students not to take his course on Chinese politics if they currently reside in China.
Truex told the Daily Princetonian the course covers subjects the Chinese government may consider sensitive and could endanger students.
American academics fear for their Chinese students in the wake of China's increasingly bold crackdow...Tags: Hong Kong, News, Education, College, China, Trends, Higher Education, Chinese communist party, Freedom Of Speech, Princeton, Truex, Princeton University, Academia, Communist Party, Daily Princetonian, Tiananmen Square Massacre 50 people like this. Like Discover the First Illustrated Book Printed in English, William Caxton’s Mirror of the World (1481)January 12, 2021 at 4:02 AM The printing history of early English books may not seem like the most fascinating subject in the world, but if you mention the name William Caxton to a book historian, you may get a fascinating lecture nonetheless. Caxton, the merchant and diplomat who introduced the printing press to England in 1476, was an unusually enterprising figure. He first learned the trade in Cologne and was pressured to begin printing in English after the success of his translation of the Recuyell of the Historyes of...Tags: Google, Books, England, College, History, Earth, Cologne, Francis Bacon, Royal Society, Princeton, Facebook Twitter, Troye, Meier, Josh Jones, Chaucer, Shakespeare Cervantes 93 people like this. Like Coursera offers affordable computer science courses from companies like Google Cloud and schools like UC Santa Cruz - and a bunch of them are free until the end of the yearDecember 21, 2020 at 4:23 PM When you buy through our links, we may earn money from our affiliate partners. Learn more.
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Coursera is a popular online learning platform that offers computer science courses, many of them taught by schools like UC Santa Cruz and Vanderbilt or companies like Google Cloud.Below, you can find nine affordable or free computer science courses, some of which offer certificates of completion to add to your LinkedIn or resume.Read more: 31 free Harvard ...Tags: Reviews, Google, Education, Trends, Linkedin, Harvard University, Princeton, University of Edinburgh, Coursera, Online Learning, E-learning, Google Cloud Platform, TCP, Vanderbilt, Matlab, UC Santa Cruz 145 people like this. Like 13 e-learning sites where you can learn to code online for free or an affordable priceNovember 9, 2020 at 3:07 PM When you buy through our links, we may earn money from our affiliate partners. Learn more.
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Coding can be a valuable hard skill for workers in an increasingly digital economy.Below, you'll find 13 sites with resources for learning to code online — from MIT's free coursework to an IBM Data Science Professional Certificate — that span categories and popular programming languages such as Python and JavaScript.See more: 9 online computer science classes that are...Tags: Reviews, Google, Amazon, Education, Microsoft, Stanford, Trends, Css, Php, Nasa, Features, Mit, Artificial Intelligence, Harvard, Dartmouth, Ibm 70 people like this. Like The oldest college in every US stateOctober 1, 2020 at 3:03 PM Harvard University is the oldest college in the entire country — it dates back to 1636.
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The oldest college in each US state includes some of the most prestigious academic institutions in the country and several flagship state universities.
The oldest college in the United States is Harvard University, founded in 1636.
Meanwhile, the most recent state to get a college for the first time is Alaska.
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The United States is...Tags: Utah, Florida, England, New York, Texas, Minnesota, Mississippi, Maryland, Education, Colorado, California, College, Montana, Washington, Kentucky, Oregon 128 people like this. Like How Ivy League financial aid packages stack up, even amid the coronavirus pandemicSeptember 4, 2020 at 10:11 AM Ivy League schools aren't curbing their high tuition prices amid the pandemic, but most already offer free tuition for students from families with a yearly income under $65,000.
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Ivy League colleges are by and large not reducing tuition this fall, even though instruction will mostly be online due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Full tuition at an Ivy League college typically falls between $50,000 and $60,000 per year.
All eight Ivy League s...Tags: Education, Washington Post, College, Trends, Strategy, Features, Harvard, Back To School, Yale, Dartmouth, Schools, Columbia University, Ivy League, University of Pennsylvania, Financial Aid, Princeton 78 people like this. Like To reach scale, Juni Learning is building a full-stack edtech experienceAugust 27, 2020 at 3:19 PM Juni Learning connects kids with math and science tutors, but co-founder Vivian Shen would prefer not to be lumped in with other edtech startups, despite the sector’s pandemic-born boom.
“We’re not just in the middle to take a few percentage points off of each side and pretend like we’re delivering value,” said Shen. “That’s not scalable.”
Semantics aside, Shen’s words underscore a truth about live tutoring businesses: Anyone can start one. All it takes is smart friends, eager students and a pl...Tags: Startups, TC, Education, Tech, Princeton, Edtech, Forerunner Ventures, ARR, Ruby Lee, Wyzant, Geant, Shen, Outschool, Andrew Geant, Mike Weishuhn, Juni Learning 34 people like this. Like Demand for tutors skyrockets as pandemic lays bare inequalities in educationAugust 10, 2020 at 6:52 PM By Ryan Gorcey, Correspondent
Nathan Castillo awakes nearly every day to a barking dog and a crying cousin before he begins his six-hour shift helming the cash register and cleaning at Emy Burgers in Florence-Graham.
When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down in-person schooling in mid-March, the 17-year-old Linda Marquez High School junior had a choice: Attend his Zoom classes or help keep the restaurant his grandfather founded 32 years ago in business. Though Castillo wants to become the first perso...Tags: News, Education, Los Angeles, Sport, Ap, Soccer, New Orleans, Lausd, Quinn, Princeton, Florence, Ucla, Taft, Torrance, Castillo, Shaffer 10 people like this. Like Princeton to remove Woodrow Wilson's name from school over racist historyJune 27, 2020 at 3:03 PM University president cites ‘thorough, deliberative’ process to reach decision amid nationwide movementIvy league Princeton University has announced it will remove president Woodrow Wilson’s name from the institution’s School of Public and International Affairs due to his history of racism.In a statement released Saturday, the university president, Christopher Eisgruber, said the decision came after a “thorough, deliberative process” five years after a group of student activists occupied his offi...Tags: Education, Race, US news, Higher Education, Princeton, US education, US universities, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson, School of Public and International Affairs, Christopher Eisgruber 13 people like this. Like The Shakespeare and Company Project Digitizes the Records of the Famous Bookstore, Showing the Reading Habits of the Lost GenerationMay 14, 2020 at 4:00 AM Great writers don’t come out of nowhere, even if some of them might end up there. They grow in gardens tended by other writers, readers, editors, and pioneering booksellers like Sylvia Beach, founder and proprietor of Shakespeare and Company. Beach opened the English-language shop in Paris in 1919. Three years later, she published James Joyce’s Ulysses, “a feat that would make her—and her bookshop and lending library—famous,” notes Princeton University’s Shakespeare and Company Project. (Infamo...Tags: Google, College, France, Edgar Allan Poe, Paris, Literature, Shakespeare, Princeton, James Joyce, Dick, Gertrude Stein, Princeton University, Ernest Hemingway, Facebook Twitter, Joyce, Ulysses 140 people like this. Like After 274 Years, Princeton Will Have Its First Black ValedictorianMay 11, 2020 at 12:48 PM Given Princeton’s troubled history with slavery, the valedictorian said he hoped the achievement “serves as inspiration to black students coming up behind me.”Tags: News, Education, New Jersey, Ivy League, Black People, Johnson, Princeton, Princeton University, Nicholas, Colleges and Universities 4 people like this. Like Take Hannah Arendt’s Final Exam for Her 1961 Course “On Revolution”May 5, 2020 at 7:00 AM After her analysis of totalitarianism in Nazi Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union, Hannah Arendt turned her scholarly attention to the subject of revolution—namely, to the French and American Revolutions. However, the first chapter of her 1963 book On Revolution opens with a paraphrase of Lenin about her own time: “Wars and revolutions… have thus far determined the physiognomy of the twentieth century.”
Arendt wrote the book on the threshold of many wars and revolutions yet to come, but she was n...Tags: Google, Politics, Congress, College, Germany, America, Atlantic, Palmer, Philosophy, Princeton, Facebook Twitter, Melville, Lenin, Josh Jones, Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt 130 people like this. Like Albert Einstein’s Grades: A Fascinating Look at His Report CardsApril 23, 2020 at 10:00 AM Albert Einstein was a precocious child.
At the age of twelve, he followed his own line of reasoning to find a proof of the Pythagorean Theorem. At thirteen he read Kant, just for the fun of it. And before he was fifteen he had taught himself differential and integral calculus.
But while the young Einstein was engrossed in intellectual pursuits, he didn't much care for school. He hated rote learning and despised authoritarian schoolmasters. His sense of intellectual superiority was resent...Tags: Google, Science, Education, College, Physics, Munich, New York Times, Italy, Albert Einstein, Princeton, Einstein, Weber, Parker, Albert, ETH, Facebook Twitter 102 people like this. Like This is What Richard Feynman’s PhD Thesis Looks Like: A Video IntroductionApril 2, 2020 at 4:00 AM Richard Feynman wasn’t just an “ordinary genius.” He was, according to mathematician Mark Kac “in his taxonomy of the two types of geniuses,” a “magician” and “a champion of scientific knowledge so effective and so beloved that he has generated an entire canon of personal mythology,” writes Maria Popova at Brain Pickings. Many a Feynman anecdote comes from Feynman himself, who burnished his popular image with two bestselling autobiographies. His stories about his life in science are extr...Tags: Google, College, Physics, Albert Einstein, Princeton, Einstein, Feynman, Manhattan Project, Richard Feynman, Facebook Twitter, James Gleick, Josh Jones, Toby, Durham NC Follow, Gleick, Maria Popova 67 people like this. Like Digital Archives Give You Free Access Thousands of Historical Children’s BooksMarch 23, 2020 at 10:00 AM It is no arbitrary coincidence that Margery Williams’ classic The Velveteen Rabbit involves a terrifying brush with scarlet fever. Published in 1922, the book was based on her own children. But all of its first readers would have shuddered at the mention, given very recent memories of the global devastation wrought by “Spanish” flu. The story earns its fairy-tale ending by invoking catastrophe, with images of the poor rabbit nearly thrown into the fire and then tossed out with the trash.
The Ve...Tags: Google, Books, England, College, Disney, Williams, Library Of Congress, Princeton, Oscar Wilde, Hayao Miyazaki, Jeanette Winterson, Soviet Union, Facebook Twitter, Wilde, Josh Jones, Poetry Foundation 89 people like this. Like Edtech startups prepare to become ‘not just a teaching tool but a necessity’March 9, 2020 at 7:36 PM As Stanford , Princeton , Columbia and others shutter classrooms to limit the coronavirus outbreak, college educators around the country are clambering to move their classes online.
At the same time, tech companies that enable remote learning are finding a surge in usage and signups. Zoom Video Communications, a videoconferencing company, , and Duolingo, a language teaching app, has had 100% user growth in the past month in China, citing school closures as one factor.
But Kristin...Tags: Startups, TC, Crowdsourcing, Education, Stanford, China, Tech, United States, Princeton, Stanford University, Duolingo, Video Conferencing, Online Learning, Boston University, Outschool, Conferencing 40 people like this. Like Study Business in the Ivy League – Expert AdviceJanuary 30, 2020 at 10:22 AM So, you want to study business in the Ivy League? If you want to major in business at an Ivy League university, you may need to broaden your horizons.
First, a bit of history
The Ivy League universities are among the oldest in the country. Five of the eight are among the 10 oldest universities in the country:
Harvard – 1636Yale – 1702Penn – 1740Princeton – 1746Columbia – 1754
Brown and Dartmouth were founded a little bit later (in 1746 and 1769, respectively). Cornell is...Tags: Facebook, New York, Washington Post, College, Mba, Stanford, Uncategorized, America, Harvard, United States, Yale, Dartmouth, Columbia University, Ivy League, University of Pennsylvania, John Adams Peter Singer’s The Life You Can Save Available as a Free AudioBook and eBook: Features Narrations by Paul Simon, Kristen Bell & Stephen FryJanuary 6, 2020 at 12:00 PM In 2009, Princeton philosopher Peter Singer published his practical handbook/manifesto The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty. Bill and Melinda Gates called it “a persuasive and inspiring work that will change the way you think about philanthropy"--a book that "shows us we can make a profound difference in the lives of the world’s poorest.”
Now, on its tenth anniversary, Singer has released an updated version of The Life You Can Save. And he's made it available as a fre...Tags: Google, College, Life, Stephen Fry, Philosophy, Bill, Princeton, Richard Dawkins, Melinda Gates, E-books, Peter, Facebook Twitter, Peter Singer, Natalia Vodianova, Audio Books, Journal of Controversial Ideas Co 66 people like this. Like Why Buying Real Estate in Princeton is a Great OptionDecember 30, 2019 at 4:26 AM If you’re interested in living in one of the most highly rated and popular cities in the entire country, you have to have Princeton on your list. Deciding to settle in this exciting city is going to benefit you in more ways than you can imagine. You will be part of a community of around 30,000 people, but make no mistake about the vibrancy of this city. That is mainly because it maintains its suburban charm that adds to its character. It’s the perfect location if you still need to keep connecte...Tags: College, Life, New York City, Sales, Community, Philadelphia, Ivy League, Princeton, Ivy League University, Enjoy Living in a Thriving Community Princeton Find Out Why Moving to Princeton is a Great OptionDecember 30, 2019 at 4:26 AM If you’re interested in living in one of the most highly rated and popular cities in the entire country, you have to have Princeton on your list. Deciding to settle in this exciting city is going to benefit you in more ways than you can imagine. You will be part of a community of around 30,000 people, but make no mistake about the vibrancy of this city. That is mainly because it maintains its suburban charm that adds to its character. It’s the perfect location if you still need to keep connecte...Tags: College, Life, New York City, Sales, Community, Philadelphia, Ivy League, Princeton, Ivy League University, Enjoy Living in a Thriving Community Princeton 10 people like this. Like Illustrations from the Soviet Children’s Book Your Name? Robot, Created by Tarkovsky Art Director Mikhail Romadin (1979)December 27, 2019 at 7:00 AM As we approach three full decades of a world without the Soviet Union, certain details about life in the societies that constituted it inevitably begin to fade from living memory. But nobody who grew up Soviet could ever forget the children's books they grew up reading, and recent efforts to digitally archive them — such as Playing Soviet at the Cotsen Collection at Princeton’s Firestone Library, previously featured here on Open Culture — have ensured that future generations will be able to enj...Tags: Google, Art, Books, College, America, Seoul, Princeton, Tolkien, Leo Tolstoy, Winnie, Soviet Union, Facebook Twitter, Tarkovsky, Chekhov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Andrei Tarkovsky 76 people like this. Like Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy is looking for engineering, social science, law, and policy "visitors" for interdisciplinary one-year positionsNovember 15, 2019 at 11:29 AM Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy is a marvellous interdisciplinary research center, and it is advertising for "visitors" for one-year stints: postdocs, policy fellows and visiting IT professors.
The positions are onsite at Princeton; as Laura Cummings-Abdo writes on Freedom to Tinker: "For all visitors, we are happy to hear from anyone working at the intersection of digital technology and public life, including experts in computer science, sociology, economics, law, poli...Tags: Post, Happy Mutants, News, Education, Web Theory, Employment, Scholarship, Princeton, Crypto Wars, Help Wanted, Center for Information Technology Policy, Laura Cummings Abdo 13 people like this. Like Do commenters who ask things like "Does anyone at the Post review these stories before they are printed?" actually read the text they think is so wrong?May 27, 2019 at 10:19 AM Here's the top-rated comment on a Washington Post column by Christine Emba titled "The new SAT score will identify barriers — but it won’t remove them":Does anyone at the Post review these stories before they are printed?The author's conventional wisdom comment that "the Ivy League, Stanford, MIT. These schools also tend to be white and wealthy, the ones left standing after a generation of disinvestment in secondary public education that’s been driven by racial self-segregation and poverty." see...Tags: Post, Education, Law, Washington Post, Stanford, Wikipedia, US, Wealth, Mit, Harvard, Yale, Exams, Princeton, Elba, Race And Education, Ann Althouse 35 people like this. Like |
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