College
As we entered the kindergarten room on a tour of our local public school, the entire class was wearing headphones and engrossed in their tablets.Seeing my eyebrows rise in surprise, the teacher said, “Don’t worry, they’re only on devices for 20 to 30 minutes each day.””And how long are they…
Ray is the father of Talia Ray, one of the undergrads in question, and was already an ex-convict at the time. He pleaded guilty to securities fraud in the early aughts and was sentenced to five years probation.As The Cut investigation recounts, he later spent six months in jail after…
Student protests are one of the reasons Emerson College in Boston is facing a decline in enrollment this fall, an internal message to staff stated, per CBS News.”We attribute this reduction to multiple factors, including national enrollment trends away from smaller private institutions, an enrollment deposit delay in response to…
This is an as-told-to conversation with Molly Cantillon, a Stanford dropout and founder of NOX, a personalized AI assistant.In the same way people cradled iPhones in their hands for the first time 17 years ago, this generation will never forget the first time they used ChatGPT — it felt like…
My grandmother loved to send handwritten thank-you notes to everyone in her life.She died in December. At her funeral, my mom asked everyone in attendance to raise a hand if they had ever received a note from my grandmother. Every single person lifted their arm high in the air.Her letters…
In 2020, Lisa was making roughly $110,000 working remotely in a corporate manufacturing role, but she wasn’t satisfied with her pay.Lisa, who’s in her 40s and based in Wisconsin, landed a job offer for a hybrid role in the same industry that paid nearly $150,000 a year, she told Business…
Murphy Pizza has accepted that she may never pay off her student loans. But she’s anxious about her other expenses, like credit card bills and rent.The 51-year-old has about $250,000 in student loan debt. She completed her doctorate degree in 2009 and worked for over a decade as an adjunct…
22-year-old Sajjaad Khader knew he wanted to go into software engineering when he started college — but he has some advice for people considering studying AI at university.In three years, he received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in computer science from Georgia Tech and finished both programs by 2022.In his…
This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Mukhtar Kadiri, 39, from the greater Toronto area, about how he decided to go by a different name in the workplace. The following has been edited for length and clarity.My dad named me Mukhtar after his friend from high school.…
The name, image, and likeness business has changed the game for college athletes who now need to self-promote on social-media platforms like Instagram and TikTok if they want to make money from NIL.LinkedIn is another often-overlooked platform where student-athletes can promote themselves and score brand deals, athletes and experts told…
