Preventing Office Politics That Affect your Work in the Academe

Filed under General with No Comments, October 29th, 2008 by admin

Though the academe is not as tough as the corporate environment, it still suffers from office politics. Because the need for promotion exists in any average working place, power struggles among co-workers and colleagues can still occur; power struggles are also evident even in school. There will be alliances and even pure non-job related antagonism [...]

How to Manage Time in Graduate School

Filed under General with No Comments, October 15th, 2008 by admin

If college was a challenge, graduate school will prove to be more so. With more advanced courses and heightened expectations, time seems to become a rarer commodity by the minute. Now that you have survived college and are in graduate school, you are expected to have much better time management skills. So, you know that [...]

Avoiding the Habits of Unsuccessful Students

Filed under General with No Comments, September 12th, 2008 by admin

Many self-help articles discuss tips on how students can survive and excel at school. To give you something new, here’s a list of habits that are common among highly unsuccessful students and what you can do to avoid such tempting habits. Not looking at the bigger picture Highly unsuccessful students do not look at the [...]

What Are the Top Five Most Prestigious Graduate School Programs in the Country?

Filed under General with No Comments, September 8th, 2008 by admin

Rankings of business schools and graduate school programs can be quite controversial and trifling. To date, there is no single authoritative body that ranks graduate school programs in the US. Different organizations and institutions employ different methodologies in gathering and analyzing their data, which consequently yield varying results. The methodologies used are often based on [...]