2015
Doing What It Takes [Monthly update]
This has been an odd sort of month for me full of ups and downs. It’s my last “free month” before returning to Kaplan, so I’m trying to get a bunch of things out-of-the-way from visiting friends to doctor’s visits. I pulled out the yarn time and time again to try to make something for […]
2015
Life is a beautiful, messy, chaotic garden of choices
Here in the background of everything going on at Insanitek, life is a chaotic mess. My fiancé has carpel tunnel, and it’s impairing his ability to work at his day job. Luckily he just got offered a part time job at a job he really wants — even though it won’t help pay the bills […]
2015
Dig deep and find your courage
No matter where you look on the internet, there are tales of triumph and glory from the underdog coming up from nothing and succeeding. It’s a story we all cheer for, and we just can’t get enough of it. They make us feel good inside as we cheer on the underdog, but it also makes […]
2015
It takes guts to live life by your rules
It feels like we are often fighting an unending balance between what is expected of us and what we want to truly do. It’s a war between cultural traditions with all the expectations to go with it and the desire to break the status quo and reach higher. Why? From the time we are born […]
2015
Lessons on Diversity and Activism from George Takei
For the first time in years I went on a bona fide date. Travis and I got tickets to see George Takei speak on diversity at Butler University, so we dressed up on one of the coldest nights of February and headed out of the house to celebrate a late Valentine’s Day date. We knew […]
2015
When life is good, why question it? [Monthly Update]
January went by so quickly I didn’t even realise I didn’t do a monthly update, per agreement with my PR team. Instead, I happily went about life, creating a series of posts to help others stick to their goals, and planning for the future. After all, helping other people is so much more interesting to […]
2015
The Alternatives to University
For the sake of argument, let’s say you decided that the ROI of higher education isn’t what it’s cracked up to be. It’s OK, most of us really don’t think the debt and stress of debt was worth it. But in the end you decide that you really, really want a career in a science related field, […]
2015
The beauty of MOOCs
Author’s note: While we are on the subjects of MOOCs and how they can help us grow, I wanted to dig out my post that originally appeared on AAAS MemberCentral. This is practically in it’s original form, with only a few minor updated information. Massive open online courses, MOOCs, are creating quite a stir. Bill Gates thinks […]
2015
Beyond the degree: What if there were no colleges?
In an earlier posts I discussed the ROI of education from both a personal perspective and a business perspective. What have you decided about your education? If you have kids, do you think they would place their ROI on the higher end of the spectrum or the lower end? If, like me, you don’t think […]
2015
Return on Investment of a degree from a business perspective
In a previous piece, I began a discussion about the return on investment (ROI) of a university education. From a student standpoint, the answer to what makes a university education is personal, and the math to figure out if it is worth it isn’t clean. Now, I’d like to continue the discussion from the standpoint […]
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