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Month: December 2009

Some Things I Learned This Year…

I’m sure many of you checked your email yesterday and received this delightful gem from Penn State: Here’s the important things I learned from this video: 0:14 – This professor finally made friends this year 0:18 – “I’ll put the values of Penn State against any university in this country”. NUMBER 1 PARTY SCHOOL! WOOO! […]

Microsoft Launches “Student Insiders” Program

According to TechCrunch, Microsoft is hiring/recruiting students who have a decent blog going to blog about their experiences with Microsoft products (or something like that). In return, students receive compensation for their work by being granted access to Microsoft conferences and having all expenses paid for when they attend Microsoft events. To me, this seems […]

Cover Story: Valley Magazine Needs a Cover Story?

Valley, Penn State’s life and style magazine, is currently searching for its Spring 2010 cover story. Apparently they can’t really find someone to write about. Maybe they’re lazy? Maybe it’s just what I like to call passive research, where you let the research come to you. For example, my U.S. Cultures term paper topic was […]

State College Is Smart

Apparently we’ve got some high achievers in our town. The Daily Beast just ranked State College the eighth smartest college town in America. How so? The criteria included bachelor’s degrees per capita, graduate degrees per capita, students’ median SAT scores, and voter turnout in the 2008. While you can’t truly measure the “intelligence” of a […]

Stream Worry-Free: ITS Increases Weekly Limit

ITS has announced that it will be increasing weekly bandwidth allowance for on-campus students from 4 GB to 10 GB. The increase will go into effect in all residence halls at all campuses at the start of spring semester 2010. This is the third time the weekly bandwidth allowance has been increased since its creation. […]

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