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Monday, November 7th, 2011

Major decisions

By Thoreau
This article starts by noting that students are more likely to switch out of science or engineering majors if they are at selective schools, while students in less selective schools are actually more likely to complete science or engineering majors.  The article then goes on to talk about how project-based teaching makes the difference.  [...]

Monday, November 7th, 2011

Arise, IOZimus Prime

By Thoreau
Not much time, just wanna say that I appreciate the reference in IOZ’s post title.  It’s good that some people still remember that there was cybertronic life before Michael Bay.
Bo weep gwanna weep mini bon.
UPDATE:  Upon re-reading his post, it’s not clear to me that he’s referencing the 1980’s movie.  However, as an Xer [...]