Team Bell 2009

http://valleywag.gawker.com/tech/your-privacy-is-an-illusion/bank-intern...

http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2009/07/loyola_university_professor_b...

Folks, I am here in Manila now and the tragedy going on is seriously underreported by American news media. I am posting here due to the urgency of the situation from my firsthand account.

A friend escaped the highway last week on a styrofoam raft from seven feet of floodwater.

My caretaker swam through three rivers to lose everything and her home, having nothing more than her mother and daughter, whom she found on the roof of what was her home. Not even a cell phone now, just them and the clothes on her back...and now a huge pile of medical bills.

NEW MATERIAL

Where I think this should go: Either after my other contribution, “Get to Know your Teaching Assistant,” which I suggested should go in Ch. 3 (Support Your Local Teacher), p. 67 before “Support Your Local Teaching Assistant” or middle of p. 68 before “The In-Between State of the Undergraduate PC”) OR at the very end of Ch. 3 (Support Your Local Teacher), p. 71 after Gagendeep Sandhu’s reflections.

How to Succeed in Discussion Section

NEW MATERIAL

Where I think this should go: Ch. 3 (Support Your Local Teacher), p. 67 before “Support Your Local Teaching Assistant” or middle of p. 68 before “The In-Between State of the Undergraduate PC”)

Get to Know Your Teaching Assistants

It is only human to feel pressure, and it is of no surprise that everyone feels it at some point in his or her life. The situations and environment we place ourselves in ferments pressure. The pressure to succeed is fermented in a student’s life by his or her environment; class, competitive student body, monetary issues, familial opinions, and self stratification all assist in the pervading presence of pressure.

Hey everybody, this is a rough draft of my story. The end may be rushed and I may need to extend it a bit.

Drugs, Moderation, and the College Dream

All my life I believed I was going to be a drug free kid transformed into a drug free adult. My life was supposed to be drug free. Things didn’t go as planned.

A speech made by one of the founders of the Burning Man project, at the start of the millenium. He made some interesting comparisons to the internet, and a lot of other things in the speech are relevant to different sociology fundamentals.

Burning Man is an event where people gather by the thousands in the middle of the desert to form a city for only about a week or two, culminated by the burning of a huge wicker or neon man.

http://www.burningman.com/whatisburningman/lectures/la_vie.html

In college, you may find yourself looking for a cheaper or healthier alternative to on-campus dining. Being a simpleton when it comes to culinary innovation, I would like to share some easy, cheap ideas that helped me stay healthy through college.

10 Things to Do As a Freshman in College

10. Meet as many people as possible. You never know whom you’ll meet in college, and more than likely many of the people you meet will affect your happiness and efficiency during your college career. You can meet your best friend, your tutor for that hard Biology class, or even your girlfriend. SO, get out there and meet people, introduce yourself first, and see what kind of responses you get.

Why do college students love alcohol? This is a funny question to ask, kind of like asking, haven't people learned from the Darwin Awards? Sometimes, stupidity is not enough to prevent people from repeatedly doing things over the span of generations. Something about the age proximity to the legal drinking age, the newfound freedom of college, the peer pressure, and the types of booze to choose from, constructs the stereotyped college parties so often featured in America’s beloved college movies.