LIVE-ONLINE FE COURSES
ATTENTION ENGINEERS Excel is offering prep courses for the FE exam available to anyone with a computer and an internet connection. For those of you who are interested, don’t miss this opportunity! These courses are offered online with the goal of reaching engineers across the country through a live, interactive, online course. As much as we would love to give all of our students the opportunity to attend a course in-person, not all of our students are in the San Francisco Bay Area. The next best thing we can do is offer the same courses,… Continue Reading
A Major Decision (Part 1)
You know you’re going to college when you start feeling like every decision you make is life changing. Looking back on my journey, I realize how much small decisions matter and how they may end up shaping the course of my life. One decision which all high school students think about is what their major will be in college. Even if they don’t think about this exactly, it definitely crosses the mind from time to time. What subjects do I like to study? Do I want to make a career out of this? Can I… Continue Reading
Study help ‘at hand’
Here’s something to do with your smartphone that will make you smarter. There are a number of apps that make excellent study aids. I’ve downloaded and tested several and found a few that are great for memorizing vocabulary and more. For iPhone or iPod Touch users, Flashcard Touch is a study game-changer. This simple application allows you to create your own flashcards or, even better, download sets of flashcards from Quizlet, the online flashcard-sharing community. Imagine being able to carry Excel’s list of SAT vocabulary words everywhere you go! Now you can.* It costs $4.99… Continue Reading
Read this and re-wire your brain!
Nicholas Carr’s most recent book, The Shallows, What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, is based on an article he wrote in 2008 that catapulted him to fame in the writing world. That article, Is Google Making us Stupid?, is a must-read for anyone who has spent time wondering if surfing the web is affecting our ability to immerse ourselves in a book or lengthy article. Carr’s answer: It most certainly is. Surfing the Internet, he says, has profound implications on our critical reading capacity. This includes our Critical Reading skills- “Reading … is… Continue Reading
In a Cal State of mind
Is your mind set on attending one of Cal State’s 23 campuses? You may not need the SAT — but you might want to take it anyway. The university says on its CSUMentor site that students who are residents of California and who have a high school GPA of 3.00 or higher are guaranteed admission. But they don’t specify which campus. If you have a particular school in mind, you’re encouraged to take either the SAT or ACT. Even then, CSU will only look at your scores on the Critical Reading and Math sections. That… Continue Reading