I am willing to bet that as you read this, a cell phone is within ten yards of where you are. My cell phone is five feet to my left on the island in my kitchen. My point is, the Internet is not the only option to find information on college programs that are available to …
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A few weeks ago I was sitting with my younger cousins about to take the first portion of their semester exams. The eldest of them was stressing the importance of the exam results, and the fact that they were unprepared, frantically – so much so that it was stressing out the others whom I was visiting …
If there was one major thing I have learned through my education, it is that the selection of a teacher is directly correlated to the success in the class. An example that I like to give is the time when I received a C+ on a paper I wrote when I was a junior in …
Recently I had to travel to Boston for a business conference and I had the opportunity to spend some time with an old college friend of mine. I told him about a new website I had put together with the help of programmers, writers, marketers and educators from all over the world called www.collegematchingservice.com. Of …
Everytime I look at most of my textbooks left over from college, I think one of two things: Man, that is going to make a future bookshelf in my mansion look pretty flippin sweet! And the other is, each of those books could have bought enough beer to last an entire weekend back in college. …
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I never really got Oreos. They were so huge in American pop culture that when they first arrived in Australia we all went a bit crazy, but to be honest they just didn’t deliver the super dreamy, creamy über chocolate hit I was expecting. Perhaps it was a case of massively overblown expectations but give …
I have had a longstanding love affair with the humble brownie, a seemingly never ending quest for that perfect fudgy, squidgy, dense, dark, not overly sweet conglomeration of chocolate, eggs and sugar. Certainly my criteria for what constitutes perfection are precise, having been refined over the years to an exacting list that even the most …
A good slice of a dense, chewy, flavourful rye can immediately conjure so many memories. A pastrami sandwich hastily slapped together on a hire car bonnet (using only a Swiss army knife) while driving through the Black Forest, a particularly indulgent dinner of eggs, caviar and champagne or a Croque Monsieur, German Style literally dripping …
This is a post following on from my last, but I thought I would do it in a different format, because why not?! I do truly believe that with certain products, you get what you pay for. However, as you will have gathered from the drugstore sister of this post, there are a lot of …
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In aid of Father’s Day I wanted to write a post which reflects the fondness that I have for my dad and to share some of the best things about him. He was and still is a brilliant dad and even though I probably shouldn’t say it, he was and always will be my favourite …