Freedom of speech affects a college student and you

You should care whether or not you're a college student.

Naomi Wolf suggests that the University of Florida's tasering of a student is a watershed. I believe that someone should not be tasered in real life for being rude, no matter what we might see in the movies. Who would Jesus taser?

Naomi Wolf editorial

Are You Ready To Succeed In College?

Read Jill Flury's article at Edutopia. She has a Master's Degree from John F. Kennedy University.

Redefine "college prep"

Back To School

Click here or on the title of today's post to find out about the Higher Education Access and Cost Reduction Act.

Welcome back!

Federal Student Loan Official Quits

It looks like the Federal Student Aid office has been lax in overseeing the student loan industry. Details...

The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (VFW) have two scholarships that are over $10,000. You can click on the title of today's post to find out about the written essay.

The other is somewhat unique in that it is an audio essay.

http://www.vfw.org/index.cfm?fa=cmty.leveld&did=150

The link is directly above and the following paragraphs are taken from the site with only minor editing.

Created in 1947, the Voice of Democracy (VOD) scholarship program is an audio-essay contest for high school students in grades 9-12 that annually provides more than $3 million in scholarships. The first-place winner, who competes with all the first-place VFW Department winners, receives a $30,000 scholarship that is paid directly to the recipient’s American university, college or vocational/technical school.

Besides competing for the top scholarship prize, as well as other national scholarships ranging from $1,000 to $16,000, each Department's first-place winner receives an all-expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C..The VOD program is endorsed by the National Association of Secondary School Principals' contest criteria and is designed to foster patriotism by allowing students the opportunity to voice their opinion in a three to five minute essay based on an annual theme.

Students can enter by submitting the required entry form, along with their essay and recording to a local VFW Post.

Those in Reality Changers might find the following UFW post information useful:

Post 5431
Col. Frank M. Brezina Post
411 N Hwy 101
Solana Beach, CA 92075
United States
(858) 259-7348

You can find a post close to you by visiting the site below.

http://emem.vfw.org/findpost.aspx

This link takes you to the most recent winning essay as of this posting.
Read Winning Essay

Allegheny Is A Hidden Gem

I know someone who just decided on Allegheny - a pastor's kid no less. I'm told that this school has all kinds of really incredible stuff going on. U.S. News & World Report's 2007 Edition of America's Best Colleges says biology/biological sciences, psychology, economics, political science and government, and English language and literature are the most popular majors.

Some people might say, "I've never heard of it." Well...now you have. Allegheny College looks reallllly good. They say that they're changing lives.

Check it out by clicking on the link above or the title of today's post. Really. Take a look. You never know. You might enjoy Pennsylvania.

Finding My Way From RealityChangers.org To ScholarshipAmerica.org

I just recently met someone while I was volunteering at Reality Changers who sent me a list of scholarships sites to check out. While in the process of doing that, I ran across a Tylenol Scholarship. I had some difficulty getting to the scholarships from the Tylenol site, but found ScholarshipAmerica.org after realizing that they had changed their name from Citizens' Scholarship Foundation of America, Inc. to Scholarship America.

These are a couple of the sites that got me there.

http://www.tylenol.com/page.jhtml?id=tylenol/news/subptyschol.inc

http://www.collegescholarships.com/scholarships_63.html

Researching scholarships isn't always easy as not everyone is making an effort to improve the usability of their site. This blog is just beginning for me. If you have scholarships sites you want to let others know about, email me. I prefer links to the actual scholarship, like this one:

http://www.zonta.org/site/PageServer?pagename=zi_issues_programs_ywpa_application

That way, you can see if that particular scholarship is for you and then you can click on a link to see more about that particular organization.

Click on the title of today's post to see another way to search scholarship sites.


Here's an article on the organization that became Scholarship America:

http://www.connectbiz.com/stories/csfa.html

DrNetwork's Scholarships For Women Trail

I made a trail of scholarships and scholarship-interest sites for you to follow at Trailfire:

Scholarships For Women Trail

Latino College Dollars

I found this accidentally while looking for scholarships for women.

LatinoCollegeDollars.org - Scholarships For California's Latino Students

Right from LCD website:

ABOUT US
The Tomás Rivera Policy Institute

This website is an initiative of the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute (TRPI), a nonprofit organization that advances informed policy on key issues affecting Latino communities through objective and timely research contributing to the betterment of the nation.

TRPI is an affiliated research unit of the University of Southern California School of Policy, Planning, and Development, and is associated with the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy at Columbia University.

The Scholarship ProjectIn 2005, The Walt Disney Company commissioned a TRPI study titled College Scholarships for Latino Students: Are Opportunities Being Missed?, which found that online scholarship information was plentiful but often outdated, not actively disseminated, and in English only.

In November 2006, with funding from The Sallie Mae Fund, The Walt Disney Company, and Southern California Edison, TRPI was able to develop an inaugural 2005/2006 printed scholarship directory. This directory listed all the regional organizations that TRPI could identify which award grants and scholarships targeting eligible California Latino students.

Great Tool For Students & Teachers - Trailfire

Here's my Trailfire list.

You can see a lot of the sites for college bound students that I'm mentioning in a very short time by visiting my link to Trailfire. Click on the link above or the title of today's post. You can even make your own Trailfire list and blaze a trail through colleges, scholarships, and resources that you think will help your fellow students.

California Scholarships For Teacher Dependents And Future Teachers

If you are the child of a public school teacher in California, the CTA Scholarship for Dependent Children may be for you. Click on the title of today's post to see the details. While it's too late for 2007, I assume that it will be available next year with a similar application deadline in January 2008.

Twenty-five (25) $2,000 scholarships are awarded.

Below is a link to more scholarships through the California Teachers Association.


http://www.cta.org/temporary_pages/nonmember_scholar_info.htm

If you are interested in becoming a teacher, there are scholarships available whether or not you are a teacher's dependent. Outside of California check your state's teacher organization for scholarships available. You can start at the National Education Association (NEA) to find your state's organization. That's what I did this morning.

Scottrade, Telluride, Venegas And More On The Net

I was pretty active online in the last day or so and finished a post about what we have accomplished at Scottrade and I found a great website for high schoolers along the way and a great Spanish language singer, Julieta Venegas. Love the net and Zune.

Click on the title of today's post to see what I said about our stocks and Scottrade. Anyone a future stockbroker out there? Future Investor?

BUT, the truly big deal for college bound sophomores and juniors is The Telluride Association.

http://www.tellurideassociation.org/

If you have academic goals, you really should check out the website. Here's something a lot of pre-college people might be wondering about. Does it cost anything? No. Well, you do have to get yourself to the site, but what an incredible opportunity for six weeks [!] of college level work and creativity with other people your age. They really look at your entrance essay instead of your GPA!

Here are topics from previous TASP seminars:

http://www.tellurideassociation.org/TASPTopics.html

I'm not really doing this justice. You do need to have some interest, so if you're at all curious, go over this site with a fine tooth comb!

Unintended Consequences

I started this blog to help young people in reaching their goal of a successful college education. I especially want to help those in high school or perhaps younger, but if the information helps you while you're in college, more power to you.

I have included two posts so far on Who's Running for President. My blog has gotten the most attention because of these posts. At this moment if you search AOL for "who's running for president", my first post on this subject comes up 16th. If you Google "who's running in the next presidential election", that same post is 3rd!
These search results are unintended consequences for this blog, yet I'm fine with more eyeballs seeing For Great Young People.

I know some of you will be 18 or older, so remember to register to vote!

Guide to College Majors in Political Science
http://tinyurl.com/38h9fx


Here are links to the Parts I & II of "Who's Running For President?"

http://fgyp.blogspot.com/2007/03/whos-running-for-president-part-ii.html


http://fgyp.blogspot.com/2007/03/whos-running-for-president-part-i.html


Click on the title of today's post to see the Google search for "who's running in the next presidential election".

Auburn University Is U.S. News No.88

We spent some time at Barnes & Noble Saturday night and picked up U.S. News & World Report's 2007 Edition of America's Best Colleges. In the directory on page 135 I found the first listed "National University", as U.S. News calls it, is Auburn. U.S. News & World Report ranks Auburn as #88. Most popular majors include business, management, marketing, and related support services, engineering, education, health professions and related clinical sciences and psychology.

In the upper right corner of the cover I found out about a scholarship program I've never heard of before. Maybe it's new to you, too. AXA-Achievement is a program of the AXA Foundation and you can find out more by clicking here.

Click on the title of today's post to see some quick facts about Auburn from U.S. News.

Found A Literature Resource

I was talking to a student at Reality Changers last night and she mentioned that she writes poetry. I started looking and found a site that has some literature online for free -BiblioMania.com.

I also happened across the Ace Quiz Bowl Camp site.

Cutting Edge Research In Engineering

Research From The College Of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

I receive a fuller version of this by subscribing through email and you can follow the link at the end of this post to subscribe. Do you know someone interested in Engineering?

Friends of Berkeley Engineering,

In a study published last month in Science Express, mechanical engineering professor Arun Majumdar and colleagues report that they successfully generated electricity directly from heat using organic thermoelectric materials. Although thermoelectric conversion has been studied for about 50 years, researchers have focused on expensive inorganic alloys. Organic-based thermoelectric converters bring the exciting promise of much cheaper ways to capture waste heat from power generation and other activities.

Wouldn't it be nice, for example, if we could cool our computer processors with thermoelectric refrigerators and make them compute faster? In fact, microelectronic companies such as Intel are exploring thermoelectric refrigeration for spot cooling of hot spots on their chips.
Computing is just one possible application. An estimated 90 percent of the world's electricity is generated by burning fossil fuels in an indirect method that wastes huge amounts of heat and fuel. Saving even a fraction of that lost heat could amount to an enormous savings of fuel and reduced carbon dioxide emissions into our atmosphere.

Throughout the College, engineers like Majumdar are thinking in novel ways about our energy problem, a problem so massive that we must approach it as broadly and as globally as possible. Berkeley's new Energy Biosciences Institute, announced last month, truly puts Berkeley on the world map of energy research. But it also attests to the work in transformative technologies that has been going on for quite some time, research in areas such as biofuels; nuclear power and nuclear waste storage; renewable power sources like hydro, thermal, solar and wind; smart buildings; optimal combustion methods; light-emitting diodes and other novel modes of lighting; energy storage and battery disposal solutions.

In these and other areas we have yet to imagine, engineering will have a major role in setting us on a new course of clean, renewable and sustainable energy self-sufficiency. It is indeed an exciting time to be an engineer!

Fiona Doyle
Acting Dean, College of Engineering
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BERKELEY ENGINEERING LAB NOTES
Volume 7, No 2
March/April 2007
Read the full version of Lab Notes at: http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/labnotes

Green Aluminum
http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/labnotes/0307/aluminum.html

Container Strategy
http://lists.coe.berkeley.edu/t/65747/138698/576/0/+

Defending Immigrant's Rights
http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/labnotes/0307/immigrant.html


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Yale Links

Yale and Harvard are Ivy League. Is one of them for you? To confuse things a little, Yale University has a college within it called Berkeley College.

Berkeley College, eighth in the line of residential colleges to be built, was completed in 1934 with a gift of money from Edward S. Harkness. The college is named in honor of the Reverend George Berkeley (1685-1753), Dean of Derry and later Bishop of Cloyne, who endowed Yale with a gift of land and books in the 18th century. There have been eight Masters of Berkeley College. The first, Charles Seymour, was an advisor to President Woodrow Wilson at Versailles, a Professor of History. The sentences in this paragraph are taken from the Berkeley College website.

In case you're wondering, this is different from the University of California at Berkeley, whose curriculum was modeled after that of Yale and Harvard according to the UC Berkeley website.


Yale Home
http://www.yale.edu/

Undergraduate Admissions with Yale College Virtual Tour
http://www.yale.edu/admit/index.html

Prospective Students Gateway
http://www.yale.edu/gateways/prosp_students.html

Financial Aid
http://www.yale.edu/admit/freshmen/financial_aid/index.html

Transfer Students
http://www.yale.edu/admit/other/transfer/index.html

About Yale History
http://www.yale.edu/about/history.html

The Yale University School of Medicine
http://info.med.yale.edu/viewbook/main.html

Health and Medicine at Yale - Patient Care
http://www.yale.edu/medicine/care.html

Yale Divinity School
http://www.yale.edu/divinity/

Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy
http://www.yale.edu/envirocenter/index.htm

Yale Environmental Poll March 2007
http://www.yale.edu/envirocenter/environmentalpoll.htm

Who's Running For President? Part II

Below are sites pertaining to Republican presidential candidates Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich. Click on the title of today's post to see who I think has the best chance between these two choices.


Politics1.com Newt Gingrich
http://www.politics1.com/p2008-gingrich.htm

Newt.org
http://www.newt.org/

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich

Draftnewt.org
http://www.draftnewt.org/

PBS on Gingrich
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newt/

NY Times articles pertaining to Gingrich
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/newt_gingrich/index.html?inline=nyt-per

United States Congress Gingrich Bio
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000225

RonPaul2008.com
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/

Articles by Ron Paul
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul-arch.html

Ron Paul United States Representative Biographical Information
http://www.house.gov/paul/bio.shtml

Ron Paul United States Representative Home
http://www.house.gov/paul/

Politics1.com Ron Paul Bio
http://www.politics1.com/p2008-paul.htm

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Paul

RonPaul.org
http://www.ronpaul.org/