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College Tutors and the Top 25 Recruiter Schools
One of the most successful people I’ve ever met, a neurosurgeon studying brain cancer at UCSF, once told me, it’s not where you go to school, it’s who you go to school with. With that in mind here are the top 10 colleges whose graduates were top-ranked ranked by recruiters. For the full top 25, [...]
New Techniques to Try With Your College Tutors
A recent article in the New York Times describes the way studying works – for a third grader learning his times tables, to a college math tutor helping a student understand differential calculus. New techniques, such as switching the room in which one studies, as well as the concepts one learns, can help retention. Rather [...]
Interest Rates and an Economics Tutor
There is a lot of speculation among professional economists regarding whether the federal government should further increase spending to stimulate the economy. Right of center economists predict that purchasers of Treasury bonds will demand higher interest rates as the government assumes more debt that it will struggle to repay. Federal budgetary woes may grow into [...]
P vs. NP and the Power of College Online Tutoring
Last week a new proof was posted on one of the world’s grandest mathematical problems. Vinay Deolalikar proposed a solution to the “P vs. NP” situation – where P represents a set of problems that can be easily solved, and Not P is a set of problems that are hard to solve, but easy to [...]
A College Math Tutor Can Help With Diff E.Q.
Differential equations, often termed Diff E.Q., is one of the more difficult upper level math classes. A differential equation is expressed in the sciences when varying quantities and their rates of change in space or time are modeled. A college math tutor can tell you all about this. Using derivates, beginning differential equations are modeled [...]
Deflation and an Economics Tutor
Deflation poses a huge risk to the struggling global economy. The two different perspectives on deflation can be boiled down to pessimism and optimism. The former argue that with the U.S. economy stagnating amid anemic G.D.P. growth, the extra slack will be picked up by private enterprises, who want to continue to invest conservatively. This [...]
Getting To Pharmacy School
If you’re in your third or fourth year of undergrad and headed to pharmacy school, chances are your course load is overwhelmingly heavy with science courses. From late-night cram sessions to weekend study marathons, every pharmacy student struggles with the same demanding workload— but take comfort in the fact that you are not alone. A [...]
How to Read Your Textbooks: The SQ3R Method
Two things many college students come to realize within their first semester is that there is a lot of assigned reading, and it’s impossible to gain a full understanding of a course without doing all of those readings. Consequently, one of the most commonly heard complaints in a college course, is that there simply isn’t [...]
More Pre-Med Help: Physics
Last week we offered a few tips to aid you in your quest to conquer Calculus, and keeping with the theme, we’re going to address another dreaded course requirement this week: Physics. Chances are, if you’re a pre-med student you’re going to have a run-in with a physics course somewhere down the line, and like [...]
Calculus: How To Survive This Pre-Med Course Requirement
For most people who aren’t math savvy, just hearing the word “calculus” can spawn a migraine. Lucky for them, most anti-math people don’t have to think about calculus very often. But unfortunately, all of you pre-med students out there don’t get off so easily! If just the thought of taking calculus this upcoming semester has [...]
