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03 May 2013

Crunch Time: The Final Month of the Semester

So it’s about that time during the end of every semester in college where everything is due, and many college students are scrambling around, losing their minds, trying to ensure they pass their classes or, in the least, raise the grade of the classes they’re falling behind in. And, as

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12 Apr 2013

The College Years [NYC Edition]: Why Go to College?

You’ve scribble scrabbled your way through kindergarten. You’ve dodgeballed your way through middle school. You scratched and clawed your way through high school (whether you’ve gotten your high school diploma or your GED, you didn’t totally get swallowed by high school and that matters). And now you’re here at what

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15 Jun 2012

FREE College in NYC: A Ghosting Guide

Sam is 25. He graduated in 2009 and now works as a freelance production assistant. When he is not working, he is reading socialist literature with his friend Carl, in the smallest two-person apartment in the Lower East Side. He also goes the New School for free as a ghost

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02 Nov 2009

Education Alliance

More than one writer on this site has remarked on the “Back To School” feeling that fall in NYC always evokes.  I’ve been out of school for a while– excepting for a short lived and financially ruinous dalliance with graduate school–and since then, wool skirts, stockings and blazers have been

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