High School Juniors: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May

In today’s Wall Street Journal is another reminder of how we are robbing our youth of their happiness while pretending to say we care about it:

Almost two-thirds of middle- and upper-middle-income high school students in the San Francisco Bay Area told researchers that they were “often or always” stressed by schoolwork, according to a series [...]

Men Will Be Dumber in the Future

As if we men didn’t have enough of a challenge in getting through life, we men now appear willing to abandon higher education and let women do all the learning:
From the founding of the country’s first (all-male) colleges in the 17th century until just a few decades ago, men received far more education than women. [...]

I Found My Mate as a Date in College

Although”officially” Karen and began dating the summer before I went off to college, we dated each other throughout college and she was my “steady” (a term probably unheard of on today’s college campuses. So once again, I felt like I was a Neanderthal when I read this in today’s Wall Street Journal:

College life has [...]

Is an MBA Worth it? Only if You Have a Great Coach

An interesting interview with Susan St. Ledger, Senior Vice President of Salesforce.com in today’s Wall Street Journal reminded me once again that even though I think an MBA degree will enhance your human capital (and earnings), its payoff will not be nearly so great unless you combine it with great experiences, which include working for [...]

Books to Read in 2008 from 2007

Here’s my response to a Wall Street Journal forum based on Cynthia Crossen’s best books of 2007:
Of the books I read in 2007 (too few), they couldn’t be less similar on the surface: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and Epic by John Eldridge. The first is long and agnostic, and the second [...]

First, Let’s Nuke All the Video Game Programmers

I’m sure that some of my younger readers may not get the allusion to Shakespeare’s play, Henry VI (Part 2).  This is probably because they’ve spent more time visiting Second Life or playing Halo 3 than reading plays and poetry in a Brit Lit course like the one I had in high school (thanks, [...]

Going backward to get ahead

A great article in the Wall Street Journal this weekend addresses what we have done many times in our life: take a step back to get ahead. It takes courage to leave the known for the unknown, but our parents have set the example in our lives, all going back to school at [...]

Ted Teague Remembers Doug Marlette

Ted Teague, one of my former MBA students and a very good friend, remembered his friend Doug Marlette, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist who passed away last week in a motor vehicle accident. As he told The Herald-Sun newspaper:
At the time of his death, Mr. Marlette had traveled to Oxford, Miss., for a high school [...]

My reaction to Albion…

As Aneil mentioned, I graduated from Albion College in 1985 with dual degrees in Music and Economics & Management (the Professional Management program, as it was called back then). When U of M laughed at me for wanting to try two majors, Albion said, “why not.” I had a great undergraduate experience [...]

I married a smart man…

A Wall Street Journal article says that although the marriage rate has finally dropped below 50% at 49.7% of all U.S. households, well-educated women don’t seem to have trouble finding a mate, as previously thought.
You might remember that awful Forbes article on why not to marry a career woman, and this article provides research that [...]