What would make for a more compelling essay: my experience at HOBY (a leadership conference), or my experience rewriting my Student Council’s Constitution?
Monthly Archive for October, 2007
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Does anyone know of any strategies to get the most out of the Additional Info box of the Common Application online form? Would you put a résumé there, something else, or nothing at all? I feel that a one-page high school résumé PDF is appropriate, but would love to stand corrected.
I found the best website on Earth today. It’s a site called FreeRice, where you’re able to practice vocabulary while being altruistic. You’re presented with a word and four possible definitions, and you’re asked to pick which one is correct. For each word you get right, FreeRice donates ten grains of rice to the hungry. Amazing, right?
There are fifty levels of vocabulary in total. For each word you get wrong, you move down a level, and for every correct three in a row, you move up a level. According to their FAQ:
This one-to-three ratio is best for keeping you at the “outer fringe” of your vocabulary, where learning can take place.
I am so angry that I didn’t have this website a year, or even a month, ago. It’s a spectacular, entertaining, and righteous way to prepare for the SAT. Pretty cool, huh?
Why am I so excited about Leopard? Watch this video.
Wonderful video originally by Karl Fisch of Arapahoe High School, redone by XPLANE. Link found on Christopher Penn’s blog. Take a moment to think about it. It’s a deep video that makes me realize just how much I’m not learning in school.
Stephen Colbert appears to be running for President, sort of. Interesting.
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